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HAND-OUTS
SPRING 2003




PART I




WEEK ONE


Introduction and Organization (Jan. 13th)

  • The Twenty-One Legal Puzzlers Handout and ONLINE

    The Strange Case of the Speluncean Explorers(Jan 15)

  • Lon Fuller, "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers,"
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 648-62
  • United States v. Holmes, U.S. Circuit Court, 1842 (Handout)
  • The Queen v. Dudley & Stephens, 14 Q.B.D. 273, 1884 (Handout)

  • Leo Katz, "Necessity, the Mother of Invention,"
    in BAD ACTS & GUILTY MINDS: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, pp. 8-81

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    WEEK TWO


    What is a Crime? (Jan. 20th)
    See INTRODUCTION ONLINE

    Who Done It? (Jan. 21)

  • Hart and Honore, "Causation and Responsibility,"
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 572-583

    Jan 22nd There Is More to Murder than Killing Someone (Jan 22)

  • People v. Young, New York Court of Appeals, 1962,
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 646-648

  • Dershowitz, THE BEST DEFENSE "The Boro Park Connection," pp.3-84.


    WEEK THREE


    Criminal Attempts (Jan. 27th)

  • Dershowitz, THE BEST DEFENSE, "Whatever Else It May Be, It is Not Murder to Shoot a Dead Body: Man Dies But Once," pp. 85-116
  • Kadish & Schulhofer, "The Case of Lady Eldon's French Lace,"
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 663-668
  • People v. Dlugash, New York Court of Appeals, 1977 (Class Handout)

    Jan 29th The Punishment That Leaves Something To Chance (Jan. 29th)

  • "Robert Parker, Blame, "Punishment, and the Role of Result,"
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 592-598

  • Leo Katz, "The Crime That Never Was," BAD ACTS & GUILTY MINDS, pp. 251-299 (Jan 30th)


    WEEK FOUR


    Negligence and Liability (Feb. 3rd)

  • Palsgraf v. Long Island RR (NY Court of Appeals, 1928)
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 598-604
  • Perry, "The Impossibility of General Strict Liability,"
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW,
  • Judith Thomson, The Decline of Cause,
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 584-691
  • Summers v. Tice et al., California Supreme Court, 1948,
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 604-607
  • Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories, California Supreme Court, 1980,
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 608-622

    Bad Acts and Guilty Minds (Again)(Feb. 5th)

  • Leo Katz, "The Root of All Evil," BAD ACTS & GUILTY MINDS, pp. 210-251
  • Leo Katz, "Bad Acts" and "Guilty Minds," BAD ACTS & GUILTY MINDS, pp. 82-135; 165-209 (Feb. 6th)


    WEEK FIVE


    Omissions and the Duty to Rescue (Feb. 10th)

  • Macaulay, "Notes on the Indian Penal Code,"
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 623-625
  • Leo Katz, "Crimes of Omission," BAD ACTS & GUILTY MINDS, pp. 135-164

  • Ernest Weinrib, "The Case for a Duty to Rescue,"
    in Feinberg & Coleman, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, pp. 625-645 (Feb 12th)

    Paper topics for the first paper will be handed out on Thursday, February the 13th. Papers are due on Monday, February the 24th, in class.





    Prepared: February 4, 2003 - 5:02:29 PM
    Edited and Updated, February 5, 2003

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