PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
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HAND-OUTS

• 1. Syllabus (2 pages)
  

• 2. Reading List: Part I (2 pages)
  

• 3. Reading List: Part II (1 page)
  

• 4. Reading List: Part III (1 page)
  

• 5. Reading List: Part IV (2 pages)
  

• 6. Twenty-One Legal Puzzlers (5 pages)
  

• 7. The Case of the Speluncean Explorers (2 pages)
  

• 8. The William Brown, 1841 (United States v. Holmes) (2 pages)
  

• 9. The Mignonette, 1884 (Queen v. Dudley) (2 pages)
  

• 10. Has a Person Who Breaks the Law out of "Necessity" Committed a Crime? (2 pages)
  

• 11. Necessity: Model Penal Code, Section 3.02 (1) (a) (1 page)
  

• 12. The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Potential Arguments, Considerations, Concerns In Defense Against the Charge of Murder (1 page)
  

• 13. Bernhard Goetz and the Crimnal Law (2 pages)
  

• 14. Defining Criminal Behavior (2 pages)
  

• 15. Justifications and Excuses (1 page)
  

• 16. Attempts 1: The Bust of Sherlock Holmes (2 pages)
  

• 17. Attempts 1: John (Finally) Tries To Do Something Nice for Alice (2 pages)
  

• 18. Attempts 1: Factual v. Legal Impossibility (2 pages)
  

• 19. Subjective v. Objective Intent: A Case of Homicide or a Mother's Love?
  An "Honest Reasonable Belief?" or Assault in the Third Degree? Justifiable Homicide or Murder without Justification or Excuse? (5 pages)
  

• 20. Glossary: "Acquittal - Holding" (1 page)
  

• 21. Glossary: "Homicide - Probation" (1 page)
  

• 22. Glossary: "Proceeding - Verdict" (1 page)
  

• 23. Cause Revisited (2 pages)
  

• 24. Walsh v. General Machine Company (1 page)
  

• 25. Parker v. Hunt (1 page)
  

• 26. What Sort of Wrong is a Tort? (1 page)
  

• 27. Tort Law (again) (2 pages)
  

• 28. Bernstein v. Harvard Overseers (1 page)
  

• 29. Products Liability: Must the Buyer Beware? (2 pages)
  

• 30. Strict Criminal Liability (1 page)
  

• 31. Characterizations of Strict Liability (1 page)
  

• 32. Criminal Attempt: Thnking It Through (1 page)
  

• 33. 75th Academy Award Nominees (2003) (1 page)
  

• 34. More Causal chains (1 page)
  

• 35. PAPER TOPIC ONE: The Felony Murder Rule (1 page)
  

• 36. ALICE AND JOHN STEAL SOME TIRES: PEOPLE v. FULLER (1978) (1 page)
  

• 37. ROCK AND HICKMAN BREAK INTO A WAREHOUSE: PEOPLE v. HICKMAN (1974) (1 page)
  

• 38. "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR THE SINS OF THEIR FATHER": TISON v. ARIZONA (1986) (1 page)
  

• 39. PAPER TOPIC TWO: Can Life Itself Be Wrongful?
  

• 40. "What Counts as Discriminatory Verbal Harassment under the Brandeis Policy?"
  

• 41. PAPER TOPIC THREE: Is Paragraph 6.4 Unconstitutional?
  

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