It’s that time of year again. Anxious 1Ls await the beginning of what will be the longest three years of their lives. Meanwhile, attorneys, law profs, and other legal professionals are eagerly sharing advice on how to survive. The weekend before the start of law school is overwhelming. With so much information, words of wisdom, […]
Guest Post by Swathi Sreerangarajan, Santa Clara Law 1L [Jess’ note: Law school might require you to develop new study habits, especially remote law school. Everyone has a different way of studying. And importantly, everyone has a different idea of success. When I was a 1L, I found it useful to learn about the different […]
There are two things I’ve always really admired about Santa Clara Law that I think makes us stand out among other law schools. 1. Our collaborative environment (which is normally strange for law school) and 2. How willing upper-year and alumni students are to give back and help us rising professionals succeed. In an effort […]
This is my answer to the practice midterm. As always, my contracts session is Wednesdays 5pm Charney 338. Hypo Whether Mel can recover from Wicked’s breach will turn on the trier of fact’s determination as to whether the contract here is enforceable. Though we have a sale of property, because the contract was verbally discussed, […]
Guest Post By Santa Clara University School of Law 1.5L, Sarina Jwo NIM Plastics Corp. v. Standex International Corp. In the land of Contracts, there are two main building blocks of law: common law and the Uniform Commercial Code. They’re DIFFERENT. Which do you apply? At a glance, it’s simple: if it’s a sale of […]
Everything except the personal jurisdiction chart has been verified by our Professor. DIVERSITY FLOW CHARTPERSONAL JX FLOWCHARTREMOVAL JX FLOWCHART
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson Task: Compare and contrast the eight cases for Unjust Enrichment. Note, this is not the assignment I turned in as I had to shorten that one to two pages. This is the full version: Bloomgarden V. Coyer Utility Bloomgarden serves as an introduction to unjust enrichment (U.E) and the […]
Breaking down the case of Flores-Figueroa v. United States and learning from the court’s arguments insight into communicating complex concepts simply to other people.
Guest Post by Santa Clara Law 1L and Colleague: Phil Fox An easy way to remember what promissory estoppel is could be to look at the first word and remember “promise.” Simply and quickly put, promissory estoppel is justified reliance on a promise. Broken down: Justified: a reasonable person would do the same based on […]
(I host a review session in Charney 338 on Wednesdays at 5pm. Join us!) This is a long post so: Tldr; If your client needs you to get them out of some ass-backwards contract they stumbled into, your point of attack is to prove the contract is illusory. How? lack of mutuality and lack of […]
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