Law School
Episodes
Mastering the Bar Exam: Torts (Overview of the Bar Exam)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1: Introduction to the Bar ExamIn this session we’ll cover: Overview of the Bar Exam and its significance. Understanding the format and stru...
Constitutional Law and the U.S. Constitution: Session 2.1
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back, everyone, to the second part of our session on the Preamble and Articles of the U.S. Constitution. In the previous segment, we discussed...
Contracts Law: Chapter 1 (Part One)
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter 1: Introduction to Contracts Law. Understanding the Role of Contracts in Legal Practice. Contracts are fundamental legal instruments that play...
Family law (2023): Dissolution of marriages - Alimony (Part One)
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alimony, also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand), spousal support (U.S., Canada) ...
Article One of the United States Constitution Part IV
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Clause 7: Judgment in cases of impeachment; Punishment on conviction. Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from O...
United States Corporate Law: Part 7
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Employee rights. Derivative suits. Because directors owe their duties to the corporation and not, as a general rule, to specific shareholders or stake...
Session 2: Constitutional Law and the U.S. Constitution
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Introduction to the Preamble. The Preamble of the U.S. Constitution serves as an eloquent and powerful introduction to the document. It begins with th...
Trust (2023): Special needs trust
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A special needs trust, also known in some jurisdictions as a supplemental needs trust, is a specialized trust that allows the disabled beneficiary to ...
Family law (2023): Dissolution of marriages - Grounds for divorce + No-fault divorce (Part Two)
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, every state plus the District of Columbia permits no-fault divorce, though requirements for obtaining a no-fault divorce vary. California was t...
United States Corporate Law: Part 4
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Employee rights. While investment managers tend to exercise most voting rights in corporations, bought with pension, life insurance and mutual fund mo...
Article One of the United States Constitution (Part III)
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Clause 2: Classification of senators; Vacancies. Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided...
Session1 Introduction to Constitutional Law
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Course Title and Objectives. Let's start by looking at the title of our course: "Constitutional Law: Sources and Principles." As the tit...
Trust (2023): Honorary trust + Asset-protection trust
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An honorary trust, under the law of trusts, is a device by which a person establishes a trust for which there is neither a charitable purpose, nor a p...
Family law (2023): Dissolution of marriages - Grounds for divorce + No-fault divorce (Part One)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Grounds for divorce are regulations specifying the circumstances under which a person will be granted a divorce. Adultery is the most common grounds f...
United States Corporate Law: Part 4
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While investment managers tend to exercise most voting rights in corporations, bought with pension, life insurance and mutual fund money, employees al...
Article One of the United States Constitution (Part II)
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Clause 2: Qualifications of Members. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Y...
Criminal law (2022):Right of self-defense
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The right of self-defense (also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person) is...
Trust (2023): Incentive trust + Protective Trust + Spendthrift trust
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In American estate planning parlance, an incentive trust is a trust designed to encourage or discourage certain behaviors by using distributions of tr...
Family law (2023): Dissolution of marriages - Adultery (Part One)
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adultery (from Latin adulterium, “I change or alter one lineage for another”) is extra-marital sex partaken by a spouse, or premarital sex partake...
United States Corporate Law: Part 3
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the board of directors is generally conferred the power to manage the day-to-day affairs of a corporation, either by the statute, or by the arti...
Article One of the United States Constitution (Part I)
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Article One of the United States Constitution establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress. Under Article ...
Criminal law (2022): Provocation
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In law, provocation is when a person is considered to have committed a criminal act partly because of a preceding set of events that might cause a rea...
Trust (2023): Interest in possession trust + charitable trust + Testamentary trust
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An interest in possession trust is a trust in which at least one beneficiary has the right to receive the income generated by the trust (if trust fund...
Family law (2023): Dissolution of marriages - Divorce (Part Two)
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Polygyny is a significant structural factor governing divorce in countries where this is permitted. Little-to-no analysis has been completed to explic...
United States Corporate Law: Part 3
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shareholder liability for debts. One of the basic principles of modern corporate law is that people who invest in a corporation have limited liability...
U.S. Bankruptcy (Part Three)
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Key concepts in bankruptcy include the debtor's discharge and the related "fresh start". Discharge is available in some but not all case...
Criminal law (2022): Justification + Mistake of law + Mistake of fact
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Justification is a defense in a criminal case, by which a defendant who committed the acts asserts that because what they did meets certain legal stan...
Trust (2023): Purpose trust + Life insurance trust
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A purpose trust is a type of trust which has no beneficiaries, but instead exists for advancing some non-charitable purpose of some kind. In most juri...
Family law (2023): Dissolution of marriages - Divorce (Part One)
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or re...
United States Corporate Law: Part 2
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Incorporation and charter competition. The process of starting up a new corporation is quick, though each state differs. A corporation is not the only...
U.S. Bankruptcy (Part Two)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Avoidance actions. Debtors, or the trustees that represent them, gain the ability to reject, or avoid actions taken with respect to the debtor's p...
Criminal law (2022): Insanity (Part Two)
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, variances in the insanity defense between states, and in the federal court system, are attributable to differences with respect ...
Trust (2023): Resulting trust + Bare trust + Accumulation and maintenance
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A resulting trust is an implied trust that comes into existence by operation of law, where property is transferred to someone who pays nothing for it;...
Family law (2023): Validity of marriages: Sham marriage + Amatonormativity
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A sham marriage or fake marriage is a marriage of convenience entered into without intending to create a real marital relationship. This is usually fo...
United States Corporate Law: Part I
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
United States corporate law regulates the governance, finance and power of corporations in US law. Every state and territory has its own basic corpora...
U.S. Bankruptcy (Part One)
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
bankruptcy. In the United States, bankruptcy is largely governed by federal law, commonly referred to as the "Bankruptcy Code" ("Code&q...
Criminal law (2022): Insanity (Part One)
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is...
Trust (2023): Trust: Express trust + Constructive trust (Part Two)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Presumptive resulting trusts. These are transfers made by A to B, where the law creates a rebuttable presumption of a resulting trust applying if the ...
Family law (2023): Validity of marriages: Marriage license + Marriage certificate
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A marriage license is a document issued, either by a religious organization or state authority, authorizing a couple to marry. The procedure for obtai...
Intellectual property (2023): Fair dealing
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fair dealing is a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. Fair dealing is found in...
Judicial remedies (2023): Subrogation
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subrogation is the assumption by a third party (such as a second creditor or an insurance company) of another party's legal right to collect debts...
Criminal law (2022): Ignorance of law excuses no one + Age of criminal responsibility
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In law, ignorantia juris non excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not"), or ignorantia legis neminem excusat ("ignorance of...
Trust (2023): Trust: Express trust + Constructive trust (Part One)
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An express trust is a trust created "in express terms, and usually in writing, as distinguished from one inferred by the law from the conduct or ...
Family law (2023): Validity of marriages: Marriage law
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marriage is an institution that is historically filled with restrictions. From age, to gender, to social status, various restrictions are placed on ma...
Intellectual property (2023): idea–expression distinction + Limitations and exceptions to copyright
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The idea–expression distinction or idea–expression dichotomy is a legal doctrine in the United States that limits the scope of copyright protectio...
Judicial remedies (2023): Rescission + Declaratory judgment
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In contract law, rescission is an equitable remedy which allows a contractual party to cancel the contract. Parties may rescind if they are the victim...
Criminal law (2022): Entrapment
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Entrapment is a practice in which a law enforcement agent or agent of the state induces a person to commit a "crime" that the person would h...
Trust (2023): Trust (Part Three)
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Land trust: A private, nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land...
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Domestic partnership
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A domestic partnership is a relationship, usually between couples, who live together and share a common domestic life, but are not married (to each ot...
Intellectual property (2023): Patent trolling (Part Two)
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, United States business entities incurred $29 billion in direct costs because of patent trolls. Lawsuits brought by "patent assertion com...
Judicial remedies (2023): Restitution + Rectification
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The law of restitution is the law of gains-based recovery, in which a court orders the defendant to give up their gains to the claimant. It should be ...
Criminal law (2022): Diminished capacity + Coercion
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In criminal law, diminished responsibility (or diminished capacity) is a potential defense by excuse by which defendants argue that although they brok...
Trust (2023): Trust (Part Two)
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A trust may have multiple trustees, and these trustees are the legal owners of the trust's property, but have a fiduciary duty to beneficiaries an...
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Civil union (Part Two)
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide rec...
Intellectual property (2023): Patent trolling (Part One)
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts...
Judicial remedies (2023):Account of profits + Injunction
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An account of profits (sometimes referred to as an accounting for profits or simply an accounting) is a type of equitable remedy most commonly used in...
Criminal law (2022): Defenses to liability: Consent
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another. It is a term of common speech, with specific definitions as u...
Trust (2023): Trust (Part One)
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A trust is a legal relationship in which the holder of a right gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another's ...
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Civil union (Part One)
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide rec...
Intellectual property (2023): Brand protection + Copyright troll
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brand protection is the process and set of actions that a right holder undertakes to prevent third parties from using its intellectual property withou...
Judicial remedies (2023): Constructive trust
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A constructive trust is an equitable remedy imposed by a court to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights due to either a pers...
Criminal law (2022): Defenses to liability: Automatism (law) (Part Two)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sleep. The Australian Model Criminal Code Committee states the law as follows: At the minimum there needs to be some operation of the will before a ph...
Wills (2023): Property disposition (Part Two)
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An elective share is a term used in American law relating to inheritance, which describes a proportion of an estate which the surviving spouse of the ...
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Common-law marriage
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Common-law marriage, also known as non-ceremonial marriage, sui iuris marriage, informal marriage, de facto marriage, or marriage by habit and repute,...
Intellectual property (2023): Abandonware (Part Two)
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Those who oppose these practices argue that distribution denies the copyright holder potential sales, in the form of re-released titles, official emul...
Judicial remedies (2023):Equitable remedies + Specific performance
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Equitable remedies are judicial remedies developed by courts of equity from about the time of Henry the 8th to provide more flexible responses to chan...
Criminal law (2022): Defenses to liability: Automatism (law) (Part One)
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In criminal law, automatism is a rarely used criminal defense. It is one of the mental condition defenses that relate to the mental state of the defen...
Wills (2023): Property disposition (Part One)
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lapse and anti-lapse. Lapse and anti-lapse are complementary concepts under the US law of wills, which address the disposition of property that is wil...
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Cohabitation (Part Two)
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abuse and infidelity. University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite found that "16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their...
Intellectual property (2023): Abandonware (Part One)
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available. Within an intelle...
Judicial remedies (2023): Reliance damages + Statutory damages + Treble damages
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reliance damages is the measure of compensation given to a person who suffered an economic harm for acting in reliance on a party who failed to fulfil...
Criminal law (2022): Defenses to liability
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a civil proceeding or criminal prosecution under the common law or under statute, a defendant may raise a defense in an effort to avert civil liabi...
Wills (2023): Insane delusion + No-contest clause
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Insane delusion is the legal term of art in the common law tradition used to describe a false conception of reality that a testator of a will adheres ...
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Cohabitation (Part One)
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not married, usually couples, live together. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually int...
Intellectual property (2023): Trademark (Part Four)
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Domain names. The advent of the domain name system has led to attempts by trademark holders to enforce their rights over domain names that are similar...
Judicial remedies (2023): Incidental damage + Consequential damages + Liquidated damages
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Incidental damages. Incidental damages refers to the type of legal damages that are reasonably associated with, or related to, actual damages. In Amer...
Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the state: Subversion (Part Two)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Economics. Economics can be both a tool of the internal and external subversive. For the external subversive, simply cutting off credit can cause seve...
Wills (2023): Fraud
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (for ex...
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Types of marriages
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The type, functions, and characteristics of marriage vary from culture to culture, and can change over time. In general there are two types: civil mar...
Intellectual property (2023): Trademark (Part Three)
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The extent to which a trademark owner may prevent unauthorized use of trademarks that are the same as or similar to its trademark depends on various f...
Judicial remedies (2023): Punitive damages (AKA Exemplary damages)
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Punitive damages, or exemplary damages, are damages assessed in order to punish the defendant for outrageous conduct and or to reform or deter the def...
Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the state: Subversion (Part One)
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subversion (from Latin subvertere 'overthrow') refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or...
Wills (2023): Undue influence (Part Two)
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Legal malpractice in estate planning. Lawsuits against estate planning attorneys have increased in recent years. Legal malpractice in trusts and estat...
Tort law (2022): Remedies: class-action (Part Two)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Criticisms. There are several criticisms of class actions. The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act stated that some abusive class actions harmed...
Intellectual property (2023): Trademark (Part Two)
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Terminology. Terms such as "mark", "brand" and "logo" are sometimes used interchangeably with "trademark". &qu...
Judicial remedies (2023): Legal remedy (Part Two)
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Constructive trust. Constructive trust is enforced in situations where the possession of a property by the defendant unjustly enriches him or her, and...
Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the state: Sedition
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward rebellion against the established order. Sedition often includes subvers...
Wills (2023): Undue influence (Part One)
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Undue influence (UI) is a psychological process by which a person's free will and judgment is supplanted by that of another. It is a legal term an...
Tort law (2022): Remedies: class-action (Part One)
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A class action, also known as a class-action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group o...
Intellectual property (2023): Trademark (Part One)
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that i...
Judicial remedies (2023): Legal remedy (Part One)
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A legal remedy, also referred to as judicial relief or a judicial remedy, is the means with which a court of law, usually in the exercise of civil law...
Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the state: Secession (Part Two)
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Explanations for the 20th century increase in secessionism. According to University of California, Santa Barbara, political scientist Bridget L Coggin...
Wills (2023): Testamentary capacity
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the common law tradition, testamentary capacity is the legal term of art used to describe a person's legal and mental ability to make or alter ...
Tort law (2022): Remedies: Private attorney general
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A private attorney general is an informal term originating in common law jurisdictions for a private attorney who brings a lawsuit claiming it to be i...
Intellectual property (2023): Trade secrets (Part Two)
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Within the U.S., trade secrets generally encompass a company's proprietary information that is not generally known to its competitors, and which p...
Criminal procedure (2023): Post-sentencing: Sexually violent predator
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some jurisdictions may commit certain types of dangerous sex offenders to state-run detention facilities following the completion of their sentence if...
Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the state: Secession (Part One)
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Secession is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance...
Wills (2023): Will contest
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A will contest, in the law of property, is a formal objection raised against the validity of a will, based on the contention that the will does not re...
Tort law (2022): Remedies: Quasi-tort + Conflict of laws
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Quasi-tort is a legal term that is sometimes used to describe unusual tort actions, on the basis of a legal doctrine that some legal duty exists which...
Intellectual property (2023): Trade secrets Part One
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that includes formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of inf...