PHL370H1 Lecture Notes - Criminal Law
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Wt will count you as a right holder but not all will theorists take this route (ex. 3. others have in regard to them under the criminal law therefore, on wt we generally don"t have criminal law rights against being murdered, enslaved, etc. Will theory and the criminal law the implications things that we typically think of as rights are not in fact rights at all: most especially inalienable rights, such as the right against being enslaved. But the criminal law duties that we do have control over will generally be less important than the ones we don"t have control over. Wt"s basic picture of how the criminal law works: civil law gives wt rights to private citizens, and criminal law gives wt rights to state officials (but none to private citizens in so far as they are private citizens)