The trial of Bradley Manning

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24419

Students are to investigate the issues pertaining to Bradley Manning and comment on this in whatever manner they consider appropriate.

The issue is also raised that the man will not be able to have a fair trial in the United States. Comment

Kleptocrats - Why is white collar crime not prosecuted yet blue collar crime is so absolutely?

http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/2011/02/06/kleptocrats-at-work/

Is crime in high places a phenomena that society has no means to control or has the internet changed the way things were?

Law School - Wikileaks and the law

http://personaldemocracy.com/pdfleaks

Comment on the perspective offered in this instance.

Protests across the West

Comment on the right to protest in a democracy in this instance. Are these protests justified or not. Please remember that you may speak your mind and you have no need to agree with any particular perspective.

http://www.usuncut.org/blog/media-advisory-over-40-events-planned-saturday-march-26

Venezuela and USA

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23155

Your comments on the article ?

General Electric, Is this an example of corporate tax evasion ???

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

Does mens rea and actus reus have to exist for a crime to have happened in this instance?

Canada's Bank Bailout

This is rather interesting as it relates to the public debt that public taxes must service.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12007

Please comment on the financial health of Canada given this handout of taxpayr dollars.

The Evolution of Democracy and Society

A law professor at Harvard University posted this commentary on the internet's impact on society and our collective human wealth. It is interesting with views that are controversial and different. Please do wrap your mind around the text as it is sophisticated and eloquent.

http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html

Please comment on the concept of humanity evolving into a more egalitarian global society on the basis of the freedom of information, freedom of speech and freedom of association inherent in the online community.

The G20 Function in Toronto

The recent CBC / Passionate Eye account of the G 20 function in Toronto has certainly raised eyebrows across the planet with Twitter alive with comments and concerns. Notwithstanding the evidence presented to you in this documentary, attempt to reach conclusions and interpret the evidence as fairly as possible. Please consider the material you have seen in class or youtube the video material so as to view again and draw conclusions and offer suggestions as to how the law was and should be upheld. Please attempt to refer to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in this regard.

Kids for Cash

The American prison industrial complex currently incarcerates 33 % of all prison inmates on the planet despite the United States holding only 4 % of the planet's population. Please consider some of the links below and engage your own research pursuant your conclusions as to why this is so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exXjk_jv9E4&feature=related

http://citizensvoice.com/news/powell-recounts-judges-pressure-to-deliver-cash-1.1103318#axzz1EiD15Mn3

Wikileaks

The widespread political revolution that is currently underway in the Middle East is largely attributable to Julian Assange and Wikileaks. This paradigm changing phenomena has altered human society, and by implication law across the planet as a consequence of the information age finally dawning on the ordinary citizen. Information and the secrecy assocated with such, was largely the monopoly of government and corporations. No more ! The manifest corruption of dictators and oligarchies has been exposed and social networks have served to further distribute previously secret information to the unbridled rage of usually law abiding citizens.

Please consider the video material on the BBC Doha Debates and comment on your perspective as to the dissemination of the information being legal or otherwise. Also mention your position as to positive or natural law and the moral legality of this action by Julian Assange.

 http://www.thedohadebates.com/debates/player.asp?d=90

Park Street Collegiate Law Blog

Welcome to the Park Street Law Blog, a forum for your intellectual, literary and personal development. You are offered the opportunity to record your reasoning and thinking as such pertains to the legal subject material under consideration. Your perspective is entirely legitimate and you are free to offer your thinking on issues directly or indirectly related to the law class. Students are however encouraged to link the ideas that you present to our law consideration as much as possible. Do remember that you may engage any international or domestic issue that pertains to domestic or international law. This is wide open as it can include corruption, corporate or government abuse of power, the international court and legal systems, domestic violence or any issue that you would consider interesting. The blog could refer to the thinking of great minds across the eons of time and even the current revolution in Egypt which  impacts humanity and the rule of law across the planet. You are expected to create and complete a blog on each section of the course and also comment on the blogs of two of you peers.