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Monthly Archive for November, 2015

Here is abstention: And the downloadable version is here. And here is the podcast on section 1983: downloadable here.

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The role of alcohol on campus

Quite a few of the cases or problems in my criminal law class involve rape or sexual assault. The casebook I use has a different approach to teaching criminal law that doesn’t separate out these kinds of crimes from other kinds of crimes. There are disadvantages to this, largely because the law surrounding sexual violence […]

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Last podcast for Criminal Law

Here it is. One giant podcast on general defenses: and here is the downloadable version. The sound isn’t fantastic. I tried to make it sound less like I was recording this in some sort of cave, but I’m not sure I was successful.

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The Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion yesterday in an excessive force case, Mullenix v. Luna, essentially holding that unless “existing precedent placed the conclusion that [the officer] acted unreasonably in these circumstances ‘beyond debate,’” the officer would be immune from a suit for damages. The debate between the concurrence and single dissent is […]

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Bernie Goetz in his own words

Goetz on Turning Point with Frank MacKay

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