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SS 2610 Introduction to Law and Society |
Spring Semester 2011Misc: Lawrence Lessig, Code.2.0 (2006) http://codev2.cc/ Andrea Yates - Ill or Evil" (Court TV 2 here) Examination of Sarah Goode (from Prof Linder's Salem Witch Trials Home page) Chinese Matrimonial and Family Laws and Chinese Constititon (art 41 Speech) art 49 (duty to support) Thousands of Women Killed for Family honor, National Geographic 2001 Laws of William the Conquerer (Midieval English Law) National Review: Always to Care Never to Kill Optional: Guardian ad Litem Report on Theresa Schaivo Dec 1 2003 ____________________________________________________ More on Copyright (more options)
Lawrence Lessig, “How I Lost the Big One,” Legal Affairs March 2004 http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2004/story_lessig_marapr04.msp Lawrence Lessig, Eldred II from free Culture (Penguin 2004) (on course reserve)
Weird Al Yankovich, “Don't Download this Song” if you haven't heard it you can at … http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/DDTSecard.html
Stealing Home – audience winner http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/contest/finalists/entries/stealinghome.html
Same Sex Marriage Lawrence v. Texas (2003) (edited by Linder) Doug Linders' Constititional Conflicts Page on the Right to Marry - here Goodridge v. Dept of Public Health (Mass Same Sex Marriage Case Joanna Grossman, All but the Name of Marriage, Findlaw Dec 2006
Torts Andrea Gerling, How the Jury Decided What the Coffee Spill Was Worth, St Lous Post Dispatch, 9/14/1994 here or here Wright, Torts: The McDonalds Case Facts: here Gonzales v. Raich, (2005) (edited here) (deciding that California could not legalize medical marijuana),don't skip Justice Thomas' interesting dissent on whether this case can be properly distinguised from Lopez. National Pride at Work v. Governor of Mich and City of Kalamazoo (Mich App Feb 1 2007) (stating that healt benefits could not be given to domestic partners after Michigan's constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage) Civil Procedure Annotated Outline of a Civil Case- (without docs)Courtesy of Prof Tom Cobb and Sarah Kaltsounis of the U. Washington School of Law) Or see the set with documents at the UW website http://faculty.washington.edu/tomcobb/civil_case/
Torts: Torts - In Class reading for exercise -- Jeremey Schall, "Blood is Thicker than Blackwater", The Nation Feb 2007 here • Complaint in Strange v. Enter Com (filed Jan 25, 2007) here
Sexual Abuse : Nadya Labi, "The Gentle People" Legal Affairs 2005 Prisons Read: Bernard Harcourt, “The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars” Jan 15, 2007 NYT here or permalink here or here
Optional: Human Rights Watch Reports: Mentally Ill Prisoners and Segregation: Case Studies: RP and LJ RP: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1003/19.htm LJ: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1003/20.htm Suicide and Self Mutilation http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1003/22.htm
Crime: • Wright Thompson, "Outrageous Injustice: The Case of Genarlow Wilson," ESPN News, Jan 2007 here
People v. Goetz and State v. Norman here (cases on self defense) Florida v. Bostick, 489 US 656 (1991) here (bus search/dragnet) Sample Search Warrant: Casey Anderson Crime - Juries
Jascha Hoffman, Suspect Memories, Legal Affairs January 2005 Jennifer Thompson, "I was certain but I was wrong" June 18, 2000 NYT Transcript of Philadephia District Attorney Office Training Video "How to Pick a Jury" here (source of transcript is Harpers magazine, "Fear of a Black Jury" July 2000. Jack McMahon, ”How to Pick a Jury ” (or “Fear of a Black Jury” from Harpers, 2000 Jennifer Thompson, “ I was certain but I was wrong ” NYT Op Ed, June 18, 2000 Right to An Attorney (6th Amendment)"Evaluation of Trial Level Indigent Defense Systems in Michigan: A Race to the Bottom: Speed and Savings over Due Process - A Constituional Crisis," Report by NACDL July 2008 (report reprinted on the Mich State Bar Website)
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