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Law & Society FinalExam - Rutgers
University questions
and answers 2025
Implied argument - answer claims indirectly
suggested (subtextual arguments)
Definitions and counter-definitions - answer the
narrative boundaries of debate that determine
what is focused on and what is excluded
Counter argument - answer ideas that are
presented to oppose another argument. responses
to critiques, anticipated questions, arguments.
Before the Law - answer Franz Kafka.
"I spent my whole life waiting to get access to the
law"
Man from the country offered the guard/doorman
bribes/money to pass through the gate but it didn't
work
,Couriers - answer They were given the choice
between becoming kings or the couriers of kings.
In the manner of children, they all wanted to be
couriers. As a result, there are only couriers. They
gallop through the world shouting to each other
messages that, since there are no kings, have
become meaningless. Gladly would they put an end
to their miserable existence, but they dare not,
because of their oaths of service.
Map parable - answer Kafka states that looking at
the map alone can let you understand a journey.
We need multiple definitions of law to get the
entire picture.
Stare Decisis (precedent) - answer a legal norm
established in court cases that is then applied to
future cases dealing with the same legal questions
de jure segregation - answer Racial segregation
that occurs because of laws or administrative
decisions by public agencies.
de facto segregation - answer Racial segregation
that occurs in schools, not as a result of the law,
but as a result of patterns of residential settlement
Segregation that occurs without legal intervention,
people choose to segregate themselves, either due
,to personal choice or socioeconomic disparities
(e.g. predominantly black communities vs white
communities)
Dred Scott - answer A black slave, had lived with
his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin
Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he
sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence
on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He
was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no
rights.
Plessy v. Ferguson - answer a 1896 Supreme Court
decision which legalized state ordered segregation
so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were
equal
"separate but equal" court decision that upheld the
constitutionality of racial segregation laws for
public facilities such as bathrooms or buses.
Adolph Plessy boarded a train and sat in the white
only section after claiming he was bi-racial and
being 1/8th african american. Court said that the
14th amendment only protected civil and political
rights, not "social rights"
Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - answer State law schools
had to admit black students, even if separate law
schools for blacks existed.
, court decision that happens 4 years before brown
v. board of education and acts as a landmark for
that case. This case successfully challenged the
"separate but equal" doctrine. Sweatt was denied
entry at the University of Texas law school solely
because he is a negro man. **In a unanimous
decision, the Court held that the Equal Protection
Clause under the 14th amendment required that
Sweatt be admitted to the university. The Court
found that the "law school for Negroes," would
have been grossly unequal to the University of
Texas Law School.
Brown v. Board of Education - answer 1954 - The
Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson,
declared that racially segregated facilities are
inherently unequal and ordered all public schools
desegregated.
Massive Resistance and the Southern Manifesto -
answer Southerners reacted to desegregation with
this. They worked through local governments and
organizations to obstruct desegregation. Produced
delays. *reaction to brown v board.
Little Rock Central High School - answer Was the
site of forced desegregation in 1957 when the
governor of Alabama wouldn't allow the "Little
Rock nine" access to the school. President
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