< United States Law

Introduction

Lecture

This is your orientation to Wikiversity 1L Program. 1L is how lawyers and law students informally refer to the first year of the law school education. Law school education (full time) in the United States is typically 3 years. The first year courses are typically: Contracts, Torts, Property, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, and Legal Writing.

Law school experience can be quite new to many. It has its own logic and jargons. It is your job to get used to those strange terms and rules.

Some reference wikibooks you need to get before you start school.

  • Case books
  • Law outlines
  • hornbooks
  • nutshell
  • Treatise

Assignment

Read a list of law school terminology, e.g., http://www.law.gmu.edu/library/guides/glossary

Read the cases to be discussed and prepare to answer questions about them.

Complete the exercise. Legal Terminology

Subjects

Pre-Law

  • Legal Writing
  • Legal Reasoning
  • Law School Boot Camp
  • Logic
  • Rhetoric

1L

  • Contracts
  • Torts
  • Property
  • Civil Procedure
  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Legal Writing

2L

  • Evidence
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Corporations
  • Taxation
  • Constitutional Law II

3L & Electives

Bar Review

  • /MBE Practice Questions
  • /Performance Tests

Extracurricular Activities

Moot Court

  • Moot Court Page
  • Statement of Facts
  • Statement of the Case
  • Court Case
  • Appeal brief

Law Review

  • Wikiversity Law Review
  • Writing Competition

Honors

  • The Order of the Coif
  • Judicial Clerkship

Other/Miscellany

Legal Clinic

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