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Abstract The Grutter v. Bollinger case is considered one of the Supreme Court Landmarks. This case, applying student, Barbara Gutter was denied acceptance into The University of Michigan Law School because of the university’s affirmative action police and her race. This case review covers the facts of the case, including the name of the case and its parties, what happened factually and procedurally, the judgment, the issues of what is in dispute, the courts holding, rationale, dissent of the…

system works by doing away with the accessibility of being a part of the legal system. By making law a “science”, Langdell was able to better educate the upcoming lawyers and legal professionals of his time. However there were major proponents for the Langdell style of teachings. One of those people being Duncan Kennedy. Kennedy had glaring and obvious issues in the current law system, such as the law schools teaching benefiting the well off and other select parts of society, all…

Throughout the history of human civilization, there have been countless times where the people of a nation needed to stand up for what is right to protect their freedoms, whether it be through war or peace. Millions of people have protested unjust laws, gone to war against tyrannical governments, and fought for the freedom of themselves and others. And in the modern day, as news spreads globally faster than ever before, people are always hearing about injustices, whether they be oppression of…

hundreds of years. They have been used from hunting, to self-protection, and to protection of the citizen rights of this country. With the recent mass shootings that has been seen in the United States, there has been an increased push for gun control laws. The thought is, if the country places a ban guns, there will be less shootings, resulting in needless deaths of our citizens. Is there a correlation between guns and the number of homicides? Even with recent mass-shootings, weapon bans are a…

Being an assistant district attorney is a very persistent and distinguished job that holds a plethora of important responsibilities. Assistant district attorneys (ADAs) represent their district attorney whereas the district attorney is elected or appointed most of the time by voters or appointed by the chief executive depending on the system in place. The basic job description of an ADA is, “An assistant district attorney, also called a deputy district attorney, or prosecutor, represents the…

Because of the mass shootings,School shooting, and assassination over the years. Democrats believe there should be more regulations on guns while on the other hand,Republicans believe the should be less because it infringes on the Second Amendment rights.Gun Control is one of the most controversial topics in today's society due to how it violates the Second Amendment, infringes on citizens’ right to protect themselves, and it is a direct invasion of privacy. Gun Control laws violates our…

Since most people believe transgender do not face true discrimination they do not think they deserve rights protected by laws; however, transgender face just as much discrimination for being who they truly as any other minority group, so therefore, they should be allowed to have government laws protecting their rights from being discriminated against just like any other minority group. That being said, the transgender movement has existed since the ‘50s trying to gain rights and recognition…

decision that still impacts us today. According to the United States Courts, what occurred was that Linda Browns daughter applied to a white school which was her local school and was not accepted because she was African American. Went to the Supreme Court (head of the judicial branch) and they ruled that segregation was unconstitutional. Courts stated that public schools were violating the fourteenth amendment, therefore; giving minority children an equal opportunity. The Civil rights act of…

legalization has impacted many high school students, how the kids in Colorado has to pay the price of passing the laws. Along, with the event #1, I decided to include some sources about how marijuana legalization laws was passed step by step like a timeline which contributed to pass the current problem. Based on my event #1, I decided…

As I sit back and reflect on my time in law school, one of my proudest accomplishments is seeing how much I’ve grown as a public speaker, but something weird happened Wednesday afternoon. After completely bombing my presentation during the students’ visit to SJU I tried to make sense of what happened. The last time I was that nervous during a presentation was freshman year of college, my first public speech in a Communications class. On Wednesday, before the speech I wasn’t nervous, as I walked…