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Can anyone out there provide me, and anyone else who knows nothing about this stuff, with a few bits of legal technobabble to pepper our stories with?

See, if I write Matt and Foggy in law school for example, I'd love to be able to give the name of a class they are taking, or something they are likely to be studying or writing a paper on, or the name of a book that they would possibly have to read. Anything like that really, just to give the whole thing a bit of authenticity, you know?

I noticed the name of one class came up in a fic a few months back (Torts or something?) and every appeared to kind of latch onto it, and it's been mentioned in a whole lot of fics since, and that's great, but is there anything else we could use?

hahaha Oh my god, Torts. I have NO idea what that is, but I see it everywhere.

Lol yeah, I think it's the only thing people know, and they only know it from fic. The first fic to mention it was really good though, so I'm not surprised how much it's spread throughout the fandom!

I have a friend studying law, and I asked them once what it meant (I think they were getting a book on it out of the library or something).

From what I can remember, I think Tort Law is to do with negligence or malpractice. It's a blanket term that covers all the rights to do with if someone has been negatively affected/sustained injury through someone else's actions, and would be invoked if anyone is brought to trail for damages. So, Tort Law would cover a situation where say I was walking down an aisle in a supermarket and slipped on a wet patch that hadn't been cleaned up. I (the plaintiff) would be then liable to bring the store (defendant) to court on negligence charges.

There's three types of torts, I think. Negligence is one, intentional is another (so that covers when one party intentionally causes harm to another, so fraud or assault), and I think the last one which I can't remember the proper name of is something to do with if the plaintiff is harmed even if the defendant wasn't negligent per se but was in possession of something dangerous (so if you get bitten by someone's dog).

Hope this helps! (although as I'm not a lawyer, maybe double check for accuracy) :D

Well, you could always look at the actual Columbia Law School for help. Here's a Wikipedia article, which gives some great general areas of study (e.g., "Civil Rights" or "Legal Philosophy"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School#Columbia_Law_School_today

Or you could play around with their interactive curriculum guide: http://web.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

It's a place to start, anyhow.

SA: Or you could noodle around on the faculty page, and see what that faculty member is currently teaching:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty

Professor Dorf apparently taught in 2006-2007, which is several years before our heros got to law school, but he did include syllabi for his classes on the website: http://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/faculty_pages/Dorf/

(SA again, shamefacedly explaining why she searched down syllabi)
...which syllabi will give you readings, to help with the believable assignments bit.

OP
Thanks, that's a great idea :)

AYRT: I really hope it helps! I've used some of those resources myself, actually.

And everybody else, I'm sorry for spamming the list by doing in three takes what should have taken one.

DA but THANK YOU. I had been meaning to ask something similar (not that I'm currently writing anything that requires that knowledge but one never knows)

I am also highly amused that there is a course-category called 'Lawyering' which honestly sounds like something only someone very drunk would use.

You're welcome!

(Now I'm going to imagine Matt and Foggy "lawyering." Not practicing law, mind you. Just behaving like lawyers.)

Haha. Off to do a bit of lawyering. No, really, that's a real word. Lawyered! Ha.

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