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The Opinion Volume 43 Issue 3 – December 1, 2004, The Opinion
The Opinion Volume 43 Issue 3 – December 1, 2004, The Opinion
The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)
The Opinion newspaper issue dated December 01, 2004
The Opinion Volume 43 Issue 2 – November 1, 2004, The Opinion
The Opinion Volume 43 Issue 2 – November 1, 2004, The Opinion
The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)
The Opinion newspaper issue dated November, 1, 2004
The Opinion Volume 43 Issue 1 – October 1, 2004, The Opinion
The Opinion Volume 43 Issue 1 – October 1, 2004, The Opinion
The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)
The Opinion newspaper issue dated October, 1, 2004
The Origins Of American Felony Murder Rules, Guyora Binder
The Origins Of American Felony Murder Rules, Guyora Binder
Journal Articles
Contemporary commentators continue to instruct lawyers and law students that England bequeathed America a sweeping default principle of strict liability for all deaths caused in all felonies. This Article exposes the harsh "common law" felony murder rule as a myth. It retraces the origins of American felony murder rules to reveal their modern, American, and legislative sources, the rationality of their original scope, and the fairness of their original application. It demonstrates that the draconian doctrine of strict liability for all deaths resulting from all felonies was never enacted into English law or received into American law. This Article reviews …
The Accidental Legal Historian: Herman Melville And The History Of American Law, Alfred S. Konefsky
The Accidental Legal Historian: Herman Melville And The History Of American Law, Alfred S. Konefsky
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