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  2. List of law school GPA curves - Wikipedia

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    University of Akron School of Law. 3.0 first year, 3.1 upper years. [2] University of Alabama School of Law. 3.20 [3] Albany Law School. 3.0 [4] American University Washington College of Law. No mandatory curve; 3.1 to 3.3 mean for 1L courses, except First-Year Rhetoric. 3.25 to 3.45 mean for most upper-level courses.

  3. Consensus decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Japanese companies normally use consensus decision-making, meaning that unanimous support on the board of directors is sought for any decision. A ringi-sho is a circulation document used to obtain agreement. It must first be signed by the lowest level manager, and then upwards, and may need to be revised and the process started over.

  4. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    The law of the country, state, or locality where the matter under litigation took place. Usually used in contract law, to determine which laws govern the contract. / ˈ l ɛ k s ˈ l oʊ s aɪ / lex scripta: written law Law that specifically codifies something, as opposed to common law or customary law. liberum veto: free veto

  5. Meeting of the minds - Wikipedia

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    Contract law. Meeting of the minds (also referred to as mutual agreement, mutual assent, or consensus ad idem) is a phrase in contract law used to describe the intentions of the parties forming the contract. In particular, it refers to the situation where there is a common understanding in the formation of the contract.

  6. Critical legal studies - Wikipedia

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    Critical legal studies. Critical legal studies ( CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s. [1] CLS adherents claim that laws are devised to maintain the status quo of society and thereby codify its biases against marginalized groups. [2]

  7. Consensus theory - Wikipedia

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    Consensus theory contrasts sharply with conflict theory, which holds that social change is only achieved through conflict. Under consensus theory the absence of conflict is seen as the equilibrium state of society and that there is a general or widespread agreement among all members of a particular society about norms, values, rules and ...

  8. Consensus theorem - Wikipedia

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    In Boolean algebra, the consensus theorem or rule of consensus [1] is the identity: The consensus or resolvent of the terms and is . It is the conjunction of all the unique literals of the terms, excluding the literal that appears unnegated in one term and negated in the other. If includes a term that is negated in (or vice versa), the ...

  9. Consensus democracy - Wikipedia

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    Consensus democracy is the application of consensus decision-making and supermajority to the process of legislation in a democracy.It is characterized by a decision-making structure that involves and takes into account as broad a range of opinions as possible, as opposed to majoritarian democracy systems where minority opinions can potentially be ignored by vote-winning majorities.