McBlogmick

Here is the audio version of the summaries I posted on TWEN a week or so ago:

crimlaw intro

legality

punishment

culpability

We will finish homicide tomorrow, but note that we will not start causation until next Tuesday: homicide and causation

We have already covered three units of material in federal courts, and our practice problem is set for about two weeks from today. So it’s time to update my links to the podcasts for those units. I’ve made the written versions for these three available on TWEN. Feel free to take a look at them to review what we have studied so far.

I also have had several conversations with people about how challenging this material is. These cases and the subject matter are tough. And our work in class focuses on synthesizing rules  and applying them to difficult factual scenarios the way you will have to in practice. That’s a skill that no one is born with. Don’t be afraid to look to sources that have synthesized the material for you–don’t do it instead of reading the cases because then you might not understand or be able to use the rules as well. You may notice that some of that synthesis and explanation comes after the cases in our textbook. Don’t be afraid to look at that first before you read the cases–even if it’s not assigned in a particular day’s reading. Additionally, I can’t recommend Erwin Chemerinsky’s treatise on Federal Jurisdiction highly enough. It’s on reserve in the library. It’s much easier to read and makes more sense of everything than almost anyone else I’ve ever read.

That said, here are the summaries I’ve prepared for you. Let me know if you need me to cover anything in more detail or if you have questions.

fctsintro

justiciability

jurisdiction stripping

I posted the script for harassment awhile ago, and just now posted the script for retaliation, too. I haven’t shown you the recordings, though. Here they are:

harassment

retaliation

Finally, I got the disparate treatment podcast re-recorded: Disparate treatment

I finally put up the disparate treatment and disparate impact podcast scripts on TWEN. Unfortunately, as I was drafting this post, I accidentally deleted the disparate treatment audio. So here is the audio for  Disparate Impact. I’ll re-record disparate treatment and get it up in the next few days.

Here are the podcasts on the duty of state courts to hear federal causes of action, federal common law, and the law to be applied in federal and state courts:

Law to be applied;

And on immunity

immunity podcast

Here is the last podcast for criminal law: Defenses

Don’t forget to review the exam from last year for class the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and have a good break!

There are two podcasts covering the materials in this unit of criminal law on inchoate crimes and doctrines of imputation. We actually won’t get to one of the doctrines of imputation until after our second quiz. So if you’re using these to review, don’t worry about the act requirement yet. Have a good break!

Inchoate

imputation

Here’s the new article I courts podcast. I updated it a little and hopefully clarified some things from prior versions: Article I courts. I’m also going to update the link for the arising under jurisdiction podcast summary: arising under

We’ve covered quite a bit of material lately, and you may be thinking about what to review to prepare for the practice problem. Here are the audio podcasts for the material to date. Article I courts and arising under/federal question will come on Thursday.

1. fctsintro
2. justiciability
3. jurisdiction stripping

Let me know if there are any issues listening or you have any questions.