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.