Product Overview:
With Law School Legends, you’ll get a brilliant law school professor explaining an entire subject to you in one simple, dynamic lecture. Law School Legends makes even the most difficult concepts crystal clear. You’ll understand the big picture and how all the concepts fit together. You’ll get hundreds of examples and exam tips, honed over decades in the classroom. But best of all, you’ll get insights you can only get from America’s greatest law professors.

Overview of Major Topics Covered:
Choice of Law in the Federal System; Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins—Federal State Disparity; Vertical and Horizontal Forum Shopping; Statutes of Limitation; Transfer; Federal Common Law; Implied Rights of Action; Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts; Subject Matter Jurisdiction—Diversity of Citizenship; Ancillary or Supplemental Jurisdiction; “Arising Under” Jurisdiction; Congressional Control Over Jurisdiction—Article III Courts—History; Northern Pipeline v. Marathon Pipe Line; Non-Article III Courts; Adequate and Independent State Grounds; Federal State Regulations; Abstention—Anti-Injunction Act; Eleventh Amendment; 42 U.S.C. § 1983—Cause of Action; Immunities; Governmental Liability; “And Laws”

About the Professor:
Dean John C. Jeffries, Jr. received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review. Following graduation, he became law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Dean Jeffries is currently the Emerson Spies Professor of Law and the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. He has also taught at Stanford, Yale, and USC Law Schools, and has received an award for teaching excellence at the University of Virginia. Dean Jeffries is the author of leading casebooks on Federal Courts and Civil Rights, as well as of many law review articles.