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"A(Nother) Critique Of Pure Reason": Toward Civic Virtue In Legal Education, Angela P. Harris, Marjorie Shultz
"A(Nother) Critique Of Pure Reason": Toward Civic Virtue In Legal Education, Angela P. Harris, Marjorie Shultz
Angela P Harris
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Battered But Not Beaten: Women Who Kill In Self Defence, Ian D. Leader-Elliott Professor
Battered But Not Beaten: Women Who Kill In Self Defence, Ian D. Leader-Elliott Professor
Ian D Leader-Elliott Professor
This essay commences with a critical evaluation of the battered woman syndrome. It continues with an illustrative biographical fragment, before discussing the polemics of excuse and justification in American criminal law. The concluding section provides an account of the law of self defence and provocation in their application to defensive homicides against attack by an intimate aggressor. The argument of the essay is that Australian common law is capable of discriminating and compassionate justice, in cases of self defence against intimate aggressors and provocation by intimate aggressors. Recourse to the dubious theory that the victims of domestic violence are characterised …
"A(Nother) Critique Of Pure Reason": Toward Civic Virtue In Legal Education, Angela P. Harris, Marjorie Shultz
"A(Nother) Critique Of Pure Reason": Toward Civic Virtue In Legal Education, Angela P. Harris, Marjorie Shultz
Marjorie M. Shultz
No abstract provided.
Conflict Of Laws In Canada: The Case For An Interpretive Approach, Shelley M. Kierstead
Conflict Of Laws In Canada: The Case For An Interpretive Approach, Shelley M. Kierstead
Shelley M. Kierstead
Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery
Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
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