Overview of the American Legal System

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  • Опубликовано: 22 авг 2018
  • UVA Law Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick ’06 provides an overview of the American legal system to first-year students. This event was part of orientation for the Class of 2021. (University of Virginia School of Law, Aug. 17, 2018)

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  • @mcsweeney29
    @mcsweeney29 2 года назад +126

    I went to a T15 law school, graduated almost a decade ago, and have been practicing at a “top” firm for some time now … you have no idea how useful it would have been to have this lecture on day one of law school, rather than picked up piecemeal through Socratic method opacity.

  • @user-cu1lv6ov6h
    @user-cu1lv6ov6h 5 месяцев назад +15

    She's so knowledgeable and able to articulate her points seamlessly. The world needs more of you. Thank you so much Professor. I duff my 🎩

  • @JosephMbidi
    @JosephMbidi Месяц назад +3

    She is the best professor ever. Speaking clearly ❤

  • @timothyfitzgerald7394
    @timothyfitzgerald7394 Год назад +29

    This woman is so good, clear, and direct with her communication. Straightforward. What a pleasure to listen to her.

  • @omara.fuentes3027
    @omara.fuentes3027 2 года назад +16

    I’m 10 years old and I’m passionate about the law.

  • @erialton
    @erialton 3 года назад +48

    A gifted teacher is always a blessing to mankind. Well done!

  • @tickedoffsheikh8587
    @tickedoffsheikh8587 3 года назад +78

    I'm 42 and has grown to have a passion for the law.

    • @karmelbythebay1
      @karmelbythebay1 3 года назад +9

      I’m 32 and just started taking intro law courses at my community college!

    • @hedheb2619
      @hedheb2619 2 года назад +2

      There is little justice in America so you must be after money.

  • @joeyhaddad2768
    @joeyhaddad2768 4 года назад +63

    I’m 15 and I’m very passionate about the law. This class was very well explained and it helped me a lot thank youu

    • @kenney0313
      @kenney0313 3 года назад +2

      I strongly advise you to start studying Admiralty, Equity, Trust, and Commerce because that's the only thing going on in these unlawful Article I and Article IV courts and agencies. Common law only exists between people, and will not be acknowledged in these CORPORATE MILITARY VENUES we think are courts of law. If you can find it, try reading a book called Clerks Praxis. It explains in great detail how things work. This little book played a HUGE role in uniting European indentured servants with the American Indian against the Britons(Britain is a fiction like BLACK and WHITE, none of which even existed until after the civil war when Briton and the southern states used the ABA to win the peace AFTER losing the Civil War. The KKK is just descendants of Confederate racists still trying to exterminate indigenous Americans. By law, Americans should only be tried in Article III constitutional common law courts of justice. There is no justice in Admiralty, just creditors and debtors, and your birth certificate/SSN is the DEBTOR as evidenced by the ALL CAPS NAME which in English denotes a corporation, Trust, or other entity, NOT man. Notice the video is about the American LEGAL system, and not American law. LEGAL and Lawful are the same as PUBLIC and Private(note the spelling add compare you birth certificate with your signature). These courts are extensions of England's Kings Bench(judges sit on the bench) as overseen by the House of Lords/BAR(BRITISH ACCREDITED REGISTRY) in London. BENCH IS THE OLD WORD FOR BANK. It's all COMMERCE under the UCC(UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE).

  • @Salma-xl4ns
    @Salma-xl4ns 3 года назад +8

    Honestly I came here out of curiosity but the amazing informative way this professor explained that introductory is so interesting to the level I think I wanna study low now🤯

  • @davepaulsaunders
    @davepaulsaunders 3 года назад +13

    From South Australia in "little old Adelaide" & looking at a big move once international borders open. Currently studying a Bachelor of Social Science Majoring in Security & International Relations & providing borders open up to USA & I get a job offer law is one of those things I want to study now! After hearing this I am so inspired more than ever. Writing down notes on this for the next few months so I'm well accustomed with it all providing I can get the job I'm after in the USA (international politics but need visa etc but have the resources to do it). I must say this is the clearest lecture I've heard, even more so than some of the Australian universities. Simple & crystal clear audio. Even I'm starting to understand it! Just have to get outta this country first in 2022 or 2023 once borders reopened up but hey, I can wait :-)

  • @dylanlaw4288
    @dylanlaw4288 Год назад +2

    I start an MLS program tomorrow. The ending to this hit the perfect notes that I needed to hear. Dive in, but don’t forget to breathe. I love it!

  • @samuelamaya4923
    @samuelamaya4923 5 лет назад +78

    She is very professional. I like how smooth she develops this orientation, very well explained . When are going to download more similar videos?

  • @kayalex4623
    @kayalex4623 3 года назад +5

    Omg Thank you for the pep talk!! I needed that! Such professional and talented teacher! I thoroughly enjoyed this! I'd sit in on more for sure!

  • @endlessidea5645
    @endlessidea5645 3 года назад +6

    It was such a clear lecture that ı can comprehend American Law System in general ways. Greetings from Istanbul

  • @spsayed
    @spsayed 3 года назад +3

    Awesome. That jurisdiction map is already stuck in my head professor. U made it easy to remember. Thank u. :))

  • @AJ-bt1vy
    @AJ-bt1vy 2 года назад +9

    Muchas gracias Profesora, excelente explicación, desde Honduras.

  • @joebrodenberg3428
    @joebrodenberg3428 5 лет назад +41

    God damn! I feel like a lawyer after this

  • @brothersinchrist5512
    @brothersinchrist5512 2 года назад +7

    When I was 13, I decided I wanted to go to law school and that it would be great to get a jump-start on the material so I could know as much as possible before attending. That was six years ago, and now I'm ready to apply for law school.
    _"You're not supposed to have already had it figured out. It would be a waste of your time and mine if you already knew everything there was to know about the law and you came and said 'yep, know it already.'"_
    Huh, interesting...

  • @joshbrinklow250
    @joshbrinklow250 2 года назад +4

    Everybody in that class should always carry their pocket constitution. Every people should.

  • @nagmeldinnaseem6346
    @nagmeldinnaseem6346 2 года назад +6

    Excellent lecture. Thank you so much.

  • @ArseneArteta_
    @ArseneArteta_ 4 года назад +12

    More of these videos please

  • @ChanyouChunghi
    @ChanyouChunghi 2 года назад +5

    @19:55 you can really see here how she’s actively trying to avoid using legal jargon. Very informational for orientation!!

  • @fsneto19
    @fsneto19 4 года назад +17

    I am a lawyer in Brazil and it is very interesting to see the difference between Civil Law and Common Law. In a first contact, it seems to me that Common Law allows a greater subjectivity of the Judge since certain parameters are not in the Law (code) but in custom so I find it interesting the system that has been developed here in Brazil in which the law (code) is the first parameter and the jurisprudence serves to standardize the understanding of the law (code) and not to create rights as the Common Law does.

  • @alexandervillalta5339
    @alexandervillalta5339 4 месяца назад +1

    Amazing the video. Thanks a lot.

  • @leoesharkey1
    @leoesharkey1 3 года назад +11

    I appreciate the point she makes about not writing things down. I wish I had listened more and wrote less when I was in College and Law School...

    • @LegalesePodcast
      @LegalesePodcast 3 года назад +3

      I was the same way my first year until I finished with my 1L's and realized the topics that I was more interested in I was having more difficulty retaining information from as opposed to classes I was less interested in. the only difference I could find was that with interesting topics like con law I had notebooks full of in class notes and less interesting topics like Property 1 or contract law I had very little in class notes . It was a much better experience once I figured that out and learned to relax a little bit and listen up more than I wrote down

  • @surf1707
    @surf1707 3 года назад +6

    I'm an Australian who can't believe we still don't have a Bill of Rights. Amy tips on how out country might achieve this?

  • @starbury64
    @starbury64 4 года назад +26

    Very informative.

  • @bubba3273
    @bubba3273 4 года назад +11

    Wonderful lecture! Thanks for posting it.

  • @ej2333
    @ej2333 3 года назад +2

    Very informative. and explained very well.

  • @vanminhvn317
    @vanminhvn317 7 месяцев назад

    I am passionate about the law. The lecture is clear and informative. What a interesting to listen to her

  • @MmmmmmmmmmmMm15
    @MmmmmmmmmmmMm15 Год назад +1

    Incredible lecture! More!!!!

  • @tentanghukumkita6381
    @tentanghukumkita6381 2 года назад +2

    Thank you for explanation
    Overview of the American Legal System
    Very interesting and useful.

  • @hyojinlee
    @hyojinlee 3 года назад +2

    Thank you so much for this video!

  • @sandrasandra1745
    @sandrasandra1745 4 года назад +5

    Thank you so much!!!!

  • @SusanBassi
    @SusanBassi 2 года назад +12

    UVA has done a great job of content on most topics but continuing to educate on the law as it is written, and not how it actually works , is raising a generation of attorneys to be prone to becoming corrupt or bankrupt. People are impacted most by family courts, they are broken, and have become a Potemikin Court system. That needs to be addressed in the legal community, including the academics who better be able to explain how private judging , domestic violence and vexatious litigant statue works , as appplied and as created in CA

  • @blackqueenstudio4783
    @blackqueenstudio4783 2 года назад

    I wish she would have touched on the UCC, and where and how it fits in the American Legal System.

  • @kennithumperovitch1312
    @kennithumperovitch1312 2 года назад +2

    LAWYERS?! What the world needs is more LAWYERS!

  • @coracaomitologico6952
    @coracaomitologico6952 4 года назад +13

    A very intelligent person

  • @doright9681
    @doright9681 7 месяцев назад

    She needs to teach all of the courses. Great attitude for an educator.

  • @stormrider1375
    @stormrider1375 10 месяцев назад +3

    "No legal system can claim to be a servant of the people if it enables those who harm the people to conceal themselves under the cover of the law and receive advantages that harm the people." - Dr. Hans Frank, "The Impact of National Socialist Thinking on the German Legal System" (1934)

  • @JohnJohnson-hl4fv
    @JohnJohnson-hl4fv 4 года назад +35

    I like torts. I had a creme filled tort for breakfast this morning.

  • @reggie93441
    @reggie93441 3 года назад +17

    She's amazing this Professor

  • @kingsleylaurent562
    @kingsleylaurent562 2 года назад

    That swimming analogy will go down in lecture/motivation history

  • @popo98164737
    @popo98164737 4 месяца назад

    Thankyou to enhance our knowledge

  • @HamidSpencer
    @HamidSpencer 3 года назад +2

    I'm a current senior student in uni and Ive been wondering and thinking about going to study law in The States..

  • @LuatsuThuDoan
    @LuatsuThuDoan 4 года назад +3

    thanks

  • @tmo314
    @tmo314 Год назад

    So glad the DA from Better Call Saul gave us her insight

  • @lucylogacho1249
    @lucylogacho1249 10 месяцев назад

    Great speech and great ending!

  • @maqsoodahmad5801
    @maqsoodahmad5801 3 года назад

    Marvellous delivery stule

  • @americancitizen748
    @americancitizen748 2 года назад +1

    She's awesome! Nice intro.

  • @lingyibai1583
    @lingyibai1583 4 года назад +5

    Just got the offer of UVA. Really nervous about my English.....

  • @Veevslav1
    @Veevslav1 Год назад

    I am not a law student, law professor nor a lawyer but I am curious why it is not called common law after precedent is established on the interpretation of statutory law by the courts?

  • @europhile2658
    @europhile2658 4 года назад +1

    very good but the opening remarks about federal laws being dealt with in State courts were not covered,or did I miss that?

  • @Tkanyike
    @Tkanyike 4 года назад +1

    This is very nice

  • @LaurynMarkMusik
    @LaurynMarkMusik 3 года назад

    Thank you 👌

  • @elmejoryo3928
    @elmejoryo3928 Год назад

    Thank you.

  • @SJ-lm7xz
    @SJ-lm7xz 2 года назад +3

    So basically statutes are regulations for government employees and people that work for the agencies or hold a license under an agency, correct? The statutes are not laws for everyday common folks correct?

  • @packgoat4580
    @packgoat4580 8 месяцев назад

    Did she mention antartica at some point? Please help me out 😅

  • @DonYutuc
    @DonYutuc 3 месяца назад +1

    Who's watching in 2024? I moved to Virginia in 2021 from Texas. This lady epitomizes why y'all are the mother of states and the mother of Presidents. Y'all have a future White House resident in Youngkin. You don't have to like him. Only love America. 🇺🇸 I'm 63, 2x this very knowledgeable lady's age. Enjoy learning y'all. This is golden. 😊 🎉 ❤
    PS. Her "metaphor" story at the end is a "must watch." My humble opinion. 😊

  • @saverioorlando5021
    @saverioorlando5021 2 года назад

    Awesome!

  • @rafaeltlv1795
    @rafaeltlv1795 5 лет назад +21

    She is brillant

  • @johnholmes3584
    @johnholmes3584 Год назад

    If you opt out of being a US citizen or corporate entity and become an American national, would you then be under only common law?

  • @coracaomitologico6952
    @coracaomitologico6952 4 года назад +1

    Very good a good class wanted is there

  • @al109
    @al109 3 года назад

    Good content

  • @randyfreestone8247
    @randyfreestone8247 4 года назад +5

    The subject of Common law seems to have been glossed over in my view. It is my understanding that under Common law the jury is not bound by the decisions of previous cases and has the authority as, the people, to overturn existing law and create new law. The courts were given authority by the people and therefore the people stand above the courts, The decisions and laws passed by a jury of people of the U.S.A. cannot be overruled by any court.

  • @brandonmccarthy7660
    @brandonmccarthy7660 3 года назад +5

    Why do you give a life sentence plus more time on top? For etc. A criminal got for the first charge 99 years plus for the second charge got 60 more years? Why not just say life without the possibility of parole!!

  • @Keteerfio
    @Keteerfio 4 года назад +4

    What can I say I cleared all confusion. Thanks.

  • @josephsmyth832
    @josephsmyth832 Год назад

    Unfortunately what isn’t stated is that positive law involves the social sciences and lacks natural philosophy in relation to Aristotle where the rule of law has historical connection. Natural law deals with morals and ethics in relation to metaphysics, epistemology, and cosmology. There’s no way to avoid the relationship between philosophy and law.

  • @hopaideia
    @hopaideia 3 года назад +1

    A happy little statute lives here. Let's give it a friend, statutes don't like living alone. She reminded me of Bob Ross

  • @Muhammadqasimrazaspeak999
    @Muhammadqasimrazaspeak999 Год назад

    Beautiful define th legal law

  • @jrnaki903
    @jrnaki903 4 года назад +6

    Common Law is the Peoples Law who fight for justice. Statue law fights for profit.

  • @an0n71
    @an0n71 2 года назад

    Ive learned this in Law 101

  • @KARAZARKARAK
    @KARAZARKARAK 8 месяцев назад

    Dear lord is that an actual chalk board? Nice.

  • @kingnico6965
    @kingnico6965 3 года назад +1

    Common law in my opinion is the customs of the people and no foreign entity May usurp the customs of the people common law which is not written down

  • @primozbenedicto3501
    @primozbenedicto3501 Год назад

    Interesting

  • @user-wv4lf4yq4t
    @user-wv4lf4yq4t 7 месяцев назад

    Really scientific

  • @christopherchromwell4691
    @christopherchromwell4691 Год назад

    American laws started in 1700s almost 300 years ago and we are still living by these laws in the year 2022 but the criminals are not living by these laws American laws have to change to deal with the criminals today

  • @ZeteticPlato
    @ZeteticPlato Год назад

    👍

  • @luftwaffle3766
    @luftwaffle3766 Год назад

    I am being taught what laws there are

  • @PosterityOf1776
    @PosterityOf1776 Год назад

    Objection! Common Law cases obtains a ruling from the jury. Common Law is a court of records. Which place the magistrate as the highest secretary. The ruling of the jury can not 🚫 be retried in any court. See 🙈 Black's Law dictionary 1st, 2nd 3rd edition. Modern BL dict are political influenced and BAR influenced.

  • @jaytoocutt4237
    @jaytoocutt4237 Год назад

    Chilling here as a 16 yr old tryna learn

  • @coracaomitologico6952
    @coracaomitologico6952 4 года назад +3

    Good meai Brinks hour mar you good

  • @bangryman100
    @bangryman100 Год назад

    How does the average/ layman supposed to know all the Laws out there.? How can someone break a law that they don't know exist? Does not intent start in the mind?

  • @joannthomases9304
    @joannthomases9304 2 года назад +1

    You have not explained STATE OF ..vs state...independent as a de jur...sui juri...those, belong to a territory of Fictitious State, 10 sq miles as a foreign district, country unto itsself....Judge made law by juris prudence, conscious of the law. Please explain all definitions of states..these, the, united United...of America= King Georges Juristiction, on and on..estate, trust....Constitution For...you forgot...

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 Год назад

    federal state and county laws.

  • @Harlem55
    @Harlem55 Год назад

    This is mistated: executive agencies have rulemaking authority to implement how a statutory law is to be followed: for example,18 USC 2257 records where the statute says very little about "how" to keep the records and how they must be organized. However, the attorney generals "rules" flesh all of it in such that we then know the "how" or the specific uniform implementation of the statute. However, these rules can contradict no other law. Common law is nothing more than that law which came from england which is still followed because it did not represent the specific evils of the king which resulted the american revolution.

  • @yatinhu1153
    @yatinhu1153 Год назад

    I am a 17 year old Italo-brazilian teenager in Germany interested about American law, the world nowadays is truly confusing HHAHHAHAHA

  • @deeremeyer1749
    @deeremeyer1749 4 года назад +1

    What if I'm in a parish or province or unincorporateed area?

  • @JohnJohnson-hl4fv
    @JohnJohnson-hl4fv 4 года назад +4

    I love the Statute of Liberty in New York City on that little island.

  • @PosterityOf1776
    @PosterityOf1776 Год назад

    The truth in Florida : Common Law is still the main legal system. Title I
    CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTES Chapter 2. COMMON LAW IN FORCE; REPEALED STATUTES 2.01 Common law and certain statutes declared in force.-The common and statute laws of England which are of a general and not a local nature, with the exception hereinafter mentioned, down to the 4th day of July, 1776, are declared to be of force in this state; provided, the said statutes and common law be not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and the acts of the Legislature of this state.

  • @WEIXELTOWN
    @WEIXELTOWN 5 лет назад +4

    If everybody is subject to the U.S. Constitution, then who are the "people"?

  • @JohnJohnson-hl4fv
    @JohnJohnson-hl4fv 4 года назад

    The Constitution and Prostitution which is better?

  • @lancell72
    @lancell72 4 года назад +1

    +++

  • @jisohn4990
    @jisohn4990 Год назад

    LOL, take a look at 12 presumptions of Law/ court

  • @deeremeyer1749
    @deeremeyer1749 4 года назад +1

    So if I get sued over a collision in a car in Virginia "English common law" that is a "creature of the judiciary" but from a "country" that the "American Revolution" was fought - and WON - specifically to defeat and deny and to demonstrate had no "power" outside of "England" and the "judge" is going to "make" the law on the spot "in court"?
    Let's go to "trial" tomorrow, shall we?

  • @robertabbott6736
    @robertabbott6736 Год назад

    Common law is not made by the courts it's made by the people through the courts which brings it up to second on list of hierarchy common law is God's law ecclesiastical law

  • @globalwarming08
    @globalwarming08 4 года назад +2

    She is making this sound very complex. May be it is. I don't know.

  • @xxxxhong6550
    @xxxxhong6550 4 года назад +2

    good intro for a foreigner

  • @WEIXELTOWN
    @WEIXELTOWN 5 лет назад +1

    Law is that which is established as fact. Ok...I'm done now, can I get my law degree?

  • @PosterityOf1776
    @PosterityOf1776 Год назад

    27:34 States moved from Common Law to Statues. which means CL is still the law of the land. CL is in the Constitution! uniformly moving to TX from FL , doesn't mean your not a Floridaian.
    The legal society hijacking the real law! Common Law.