Law School College Essays Samples For Students

The US Constitution is the supreme law that governs the United States of America. The law created a national government and primary laws, and also established specific basic human rights for the citizens. The constitution contains seven Articles and 27 Amendments. The constitution has been in existence for more than 200 years and in the process, it has undergone important ramifications to make it better (The United States Court, 2014). The paper will discuss the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments of the US Constitution, and how they apply in adult and juvenile court proceedings.
The Fourth Amendment prohibits the ...

I believe myself to be a fortunate individual who possesses certain personal qualities. It is because such qualities have helped me to face the various challenges of life. Although I always wanted to become a dentist, several incidents in my life made me decide to become a law enforcement officer. I have learned a lot through many ups and downs of life. The gravest experience I had is when I was wrongfully convicted of a physical assault. I had to spend several days in incarceration. It was later revealed that I was falsely accused. However, this dreadful event has made me a grateful person. I ...

The Road to Brown documentary describes major events of the 20th century that helped to end up racial segregation in the American South. It is a story on how African Americans managed to legally pave the way to equal educational opportunities and, thus, contributed to the death of Jim Crow era.
Charles Hamilton Houston, a legendary black lawyer and the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, is a central figure of The Road to Brown (The Road To Brown). He is presented as a mastermind of this anti-segregation movement due to a brilliant strategy he developed and ...

Mens Rea and Juvenile Culpability

Overview of Stanford v. Kentucky (1989)
The defendant, Kevin Stanford, was accused of murdering Barbel Poore on 7th January 1981. At the time of the felony, the accused was 17 years four months old. Stanford was accused of having sodomized and raped the deceased during their robbery at a fuel station where Poore worked (Cornell University Law School, 2007). After the robbery, Stanford and his accomplice kidnapped Poore and took her to a secluded place not far from the fuel station. It is in this place that Stanford is said to have shot Poore twice: one bullet to the back ...

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON THE POLITICAL LEADER 2

Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to assess various scholarly sources pertaining to Hillary Clinton as a political leader, her various leadership roles, and the overall organizational effectiveness of her leadership. While serving as the First Lady of the United States, United States Senator of New York and Secretary of State for President Obama’s first administration, Clinton has proven time and again to be a leader of resilience and authenticity with effective organizational outcomes. Ideally, the leadership behaviors of Hillary Rodham Clinton provide a diverse and broad foundation for identifying specific characteristics of transformational leadership: the ability to listen ...

U. S. History
This paper seeks to introduce the topic by relying on the Secondary source of the American History. Additionally, the Submission will then highlight some of the essential and crucial facts to appreciate regarding the Declaration of Independence and the American constitution. After setting the background and the context of the topic, this submission will then move to compare and contrast the Declaration of independence with the American Constitution with the Secondary Source of information and lastly give a conclusion based on the contrasts as shall be highlighted in the course of looking at all of the ...

This situation between Ari and Raymond is surely a common occurrence in the real world of practicing law because it represents the issue of unreasonable fees combined with other issues of a paralegal practicing law with limited supervision from a supervising attorney, (Thompson, K., 2008). What is important to note about this situation is that it shows an attorney and its law firm taking advantage of a client’s emotions and possibly providing him inadequate representation for his upcoming matter. Thus, the most pertinent issue in Ari’s case that should be assessed is whether he is too emotional ...

Legal writing is an important skill for lawyers because the demands of the legal profession will require drafting of briefs, motions and pleadings in defense of their clients. Lawyers must possess effective writing skills to be able to convince the courts to rule in the favor of their clients since most courts render decisions on appeals even without argument. Courts require lawyers to follow their own legal format in the preparation of briefs which must be concise and direct to the point (Karabin 1). Thus, it is essential for all lawyers to be equipped with good communication skills because ...

Many people associate slavery with the transatlantic slave trade of the past and believe that it is an institution that has been left in the past. This paper will look at how modern slavery differs from the transatlantic slave trade. The paper provides different arguments and examples from history of slavery and compares it to its current form. Moreover, the paper will include types of slavery that exist today. The role of United Nation to control the slavery in different countries will also be discussed. The paper will not only present the history of slavery but it will also ...

The right of Americans to individual privacy has increasingly become an issue of national significance. Partly due to leaks of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance program by government contractor, Edward Snowden, American citizens’ basic right to privacy has become a subject of national debate. Not only is privacy a Constitutional Right, the right to privacy is a fundamental human right that no government should violate. Through these lenses, federal surveillance for national security purposes, invasive laws that affect our bodies, and telecommunications monitoring should be called into question, and rescinded.
The US Constitution’s Bill of Rights ...

Present day education systems of the United States of America are subject to racially diversified college classrooms that are significantly different from the classes that existed by the second half of the twentieth century. The notable change is the outcome of “affirmative action” that became law under the Executive Order 11246 courtesy of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. As per the terms of the executive order, publicly funded companies could not discriminate based on any traits including skin color, gender, and religion. In the end, the action sought to serve two purposes: make efforts to allocate equal opportunity for ...

For example Elizabeth L. Angeli, Department of Psychology, State University.

This research was supported in part by a grant from the Sample Grant
Program.
Angeli, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 55555
Evaluate how the freedoms contained in the Constitution are affected by terrorism today.
One day after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, President George W. Bush vowed that “we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.” Despite that, few months after this statement the security policies ...

Introduction

Racial profiling has been a national problem for America for a long time despite claims that the nation has passed that era. Racial profiling occurs every day everywhere across America when people of color are targeted by private security and law enforcement for frightening detentions, searches and interrogations without evidence that they are criminals. The detentions, searches and interrogations are usually based on perceived race, ethnicity, national origin or religion. Race and location are dominant characteristics that authorities look at when engaging in this type of profiling. This paper will give an understanding of racial profiling, the legislations and case laws ...

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The Second Amendment and its interpretation have stirred considerable debates in American legal circles. At the center of the legal “storm” is the correct understanding of the scope of the amendment in guaranteeing the right of the people to “bear arms.” One side of the political aisle on the issue believes that the clause “the right of the people to bear arms” engenders a unique constitutional liberty for American citizens. In the premise of the “individual right” postulate, the fundamental law of the United States bars lawmaking bodies from banning people to possess firearms.
On the other side ...

The success of America as a country is a fact acknowledged widely by all around the globe. However, if one may ponder over the reasons behind the success of this great nation then it would mainly be accounted to two major factors: the people and the various opportunities available to them. America is known for its freedom of choice and place where dreams come true. It is highly successful nation which is famous for its ability to bring out the best in people. American laws, systems, securities and liberties are not perfect but they are the most unusual ones worldwide. They ...

Introduction

The Brown v. Plata case was a lawsuit brought before the US Supreme Court with allegations of serious violations of the rights of prisoners due to inadequate mental and medical health care. The US Supreme Court approved the decision in 2011 that made it mandatory for prisons to hold the court-mandated limit of prisoners (Cornell University Law School). The decision was passed to avert the violation of the constitutional right of prisoners under the Eighth Amendment. The case was a consolidation of two-class action cases leveled against the then California Governor. The petitioners argued that the California prison system violated the ...

Divorce has somewhat become widespread nowadays. In an infographics created by Instant Checkmate (2013), it is approximated that 50% of all marriages in America end in divorce. The succeeding reports are staggering. Marriage, in a religious context, is considered to be a sacred promise shared by two persons bound by love. However, some relationships are doomed to fail for a myriad of reasons. And if the grounds for divorce are present, then broken couples opt to take the more painful (yet sometimes liberating) legal route.
Divorce is defined the legal dissolution of marriage by a court or other competent body. According to ...

Three Strikes: Is it effective?

Introduction
California’s draconian imprisonment law, the “Three Strikes” law, was the completion of a decade long movement of adopting “get tough on crime” laws. However, though these types of laws have resulted in a 300 percent increase in the prison population in the United States, many Americans felt more prone to violence than the decade before the enactment of the law (Vitello, 1997, p. 395).
Washington was the first state to enact these laws in 1993, so called because of the manner of their operation for incarcerating anyone convicted of three separate cases of violent offenses to serve a ...

In the debates of the Framers of the Constitution, the delegates did not pay significant amounts of attention to the powers that were to be vested in the Executive branch of government. Compared to the heated debates over the powers that were to be given to Congress, the mandates of the President were resolved rather swiftly and bereft of any significant debate. This situation can be attributed to the fears of some of the delegates at offending the presiding officer of the Convention, George Washington, who was widely believed to assume the position of President. Nevertheless, the position of ...

Introduction

The Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act is a law that has been codified in the United States that was specifically made to establish the grounds and limitations as to whether a foreign entity, or a foreign sovereign nation at that, can be charged and be subject to trial in a U.S. federal or state court . Apart from being a common legal ground for various legal cases that mostly involve multi-national entities or those that have different international origins, the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FISA) may also be used as a strong basis—in fact, in many legal cases, it the Act is being used as the sole ...

Definition of negligence

Negligence refers to the situation whereby a person fails to behave prudently towards another through actions or omissions that may result to inflicting unreasonable harm to that other person (Cornell University Law School, 2010). The essential elements of negligence include; 1) duty- this is the obligation that a person has with respect to another person, 2) breach- it is the conduct that results in failure to fulfill the duty, 3) cause in fact- this refers to ascertaining whether the actions of the defendant are actually responsible for the damage to the plaintiff, 4) proximate cause- this is the scope to which ...

Despite the great strides made in the improvement of the status of women in the society over the past century, the expectations, and to a great extend the beliefs, of a majority of the population is based on the view that the position of a woman in the society is inferior to that of men. The achievements of women are therefore not benchmarked against the same standards that are applied to men, and expectations on the achievement capabilities of women are generally low. This trend is present in all parts of the world, though there are great differences in the position of ...

The Effect of Police Conduct on Public Trust in the Law

LEGAL DATABASES
ABA Journal

This is a free journal of legal news. One interesting feature is its BLAWGS application, which allows you to browse legal blogs by subject. There is an extensive database of BLAWGS in Criminal Justice. Whereas you cannot use this information in your research paper, there is a lot of interesting information that can help you in your analysis. Also, their news features provide legal information on current cases. ABA journal helps you identify current hot topics in criminal justice, like police misconduct.

DRAGNET: Search of Free Legal Databases via New York Law School

DRAGNET, or "Database Retrieval Access using Google's New Electronic Technology," is a specialized search engine ...