by Kris | Dec 30, 2009 | Public law, Supreme Court of the United States
As an Anglo-American lecturer in English Criminal and Public (constitutional and administrative) law, I am bemused by the myriad of approaches to US Constitutional interpretation. So here’s a question: Is Miranda v Arizona “unconstitutional”? How do...
by Kris | Dec 12, 2009 | Criminal law
As explained in my previous post on answering problem questions, there are generally two elements to be proved in order to convict someone for the commission of a crime – the actus reus and mens rea. Criminal liability generally attaches where the Defendant has...
by Kris | Dec 1, 2009 | Get qualified
Does the feedback you receive from your lecturer and/or tutor on your problem question assignments and practice questions help you understand where you could improve? My convenor recently called a meeting of all law lecturers at our university. To gauge whether we...
