Movie scene where woman defends her dissertation topic

Moving from England to California, the youngest cousins of Elle Woods must defend themselves when their schools reigning forces turn on the girls and try to frame them for a crime.

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to law school. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just looks.