LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Jury Nullification, Procedural Justice, Political Philosophy
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Laws 1000 lecture (20) law, liberalism and critics. Laskin, lamer, wilson, r. v. s. , cosgrove o. Judging is a human process we bring to the table everything that we have collected throughout our lives (our perspectives) and that is a problem as well as an asset o. *what it is that we expect the law to do the degree to which what the law claims to do vs. what it actually achieves the disconnect between procedural justice and factual justice. Women"s rights as human rights: toward a re-vision of human rights; bulter, racially based. Jury nullification: black power in the criminal justice system; khan, perpetuating the cycle of. Abuse: feminist (mis)use of the public/private dichotomy in the case of nixon v. rape relief; Police: the sticky issue of discretion, negative side of discretion is discrimination. Judges: objectivity & neutrality hard to achieve. Harm principle one cannot use one"s one liberty to infringe another person"s liberty.
