QUIZ REVIEW



QUIZ REVIEW

20 multiple choice or true/false questions

Focus will be primarily on materials from Before the Law;

North Carolina cases pp. 4-19 (precedent)

Speluncean Explorer case, in packet-(Statutory Interpretation)

Official Discretion, BTL, pp 21-34 (subjectivity in judging process and sentencing)

You should know

Names of cases

Facts of each case

Issue in each case

Ruling and reasoning of each opinion

How it affirmed, modified or overruled precedent

Also…

Philosophies of statutory interpretation and different judicial philosophies of judges in Speluncean case

Rulings and reason of each judge

Basic argument of Jerome Frank regarding decision-making processes of judges

And…

Standard of proof in Criminal case

Standard of proof in Civil Case

Definition of precedent

What does janus-faced mean?

Definition of statute

Definition of common law

Definition of enacted law

Definition of Coverture

Definition of “domestic curtain

Finally….

Definition of natural law

Definition of strict statutory construction

Definition of loose statutory construction

How to read a case citation

Differences between a trial and an appellate legal proceeding.

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