Podcast Episodes

Civil procedure: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Summary judgment (Part One)

In law, a summary judgment (also judgment as a matter of law or summary disposition) is a judgment entered by a court for one party and against another party summarily, for example, without a full tr…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Tort law (2022): Damages (Part One)

At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Intellectual property: Indigenous intellectual property (Part Two)

Tambunan Statement, February 1995.

Indigenous people of Asia met at Tambunan, Sabah, East Malaysia, to assert rights of self-determination, and to express concern about, and fear of, the threat unfam…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Criminal procedure (2023): Sentencing: Indefinite imprisonment + Three-strikes law

Indefinite imprisonment or indeterminate imprisonment is the imposition of a sentence by imprisonment with no definite period of time set during sentencing. It was imposed by certain nations in the p…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Crimes against justice: Misprision of felony + Obstruction of justice

Misprision of felony is a form of misprision, and an offense under the common law of England that is no longer active in many common law countries. Where it was or is active, it is classified as a mi…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Civil procedure: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Pre-trial procedure: Request for admissions + Request for production / Resolution without trial: Default judgment

Request for admission.

A request for admission (sometimes also called a request to admit) is a set of statements sent from one litigant to an adversary, for the purpose of having the adversary admit …

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Tort law (2022): Liability: Joint and several liability + Market share liability + Transferred intent

oint and several liability.

Where two or more persons are liable in respect of the same liability, in most common law legal systems they may either be:

jointly liable, or

severally liable, or

jointly…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Intellectual property: Indigenous intellectual property (Part One)

Indigenous intellectual property is a term used in national and international forums to describe intellectual property that is "collectively owned" by various Indigenous peoples, and by extension, th…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Criminal procedure (2023): Sentencing: Execution warrant + Cruel and unusual punishment + Imprisonment + Life imprisonment

An execution warrant (also called death warrant or black warrant) is a writ that authorizes the execution of a condemned person. An execution warrant is not to be confused with a "license to kill", w…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Crimes against justice: Miscarriage of justice (Part Two)

Compensation for wrongful conviction

Article 14(6) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) states that when a miscarriage of justice has occurred and the defendant's convi…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago