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The Life of a Law Student podcasts chronicle the material presented to and learned by Neil Wehneman, a student at the University of Cincinnati's College of Law. Feeds are segmented by course. Primary Format : Education Language : English Also Listed as: City : Cincinnati State/Province : OH Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Life of a Law Student: All Feeds Podcasts Methings.com listings of Life of a Law Student: All Feeds Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Life of a Law Student: All Feeds Canadian Constitutional Law #20: International Economic Obligations In this podcast we discuss some of Canada’s international economic agreements, and how they are impacted by division of power issues regarding the economy. We will look at some ways in which the constitution is “amended” in practice - that is, the methods that may be employed to achieve a distribution of power between [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canadian Constitutional Law #21:Racism in the Law, Pre-Charter Era In this podcast we will look at three cases as examples of how racism in the law was dealt with before the charter entrenchment of rights. Without a constitutional document protecting rights, we see that the court can only strike racist legislation on the basis of division of powers. Both the JCPC and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canadian Constitutional Law #22: Implied (and Real) Bill of Rights In this podcast we first look at the implied bill of rights, a concept drawn from a series of cases that seem to hint at the idea that there is a sphere of fundamental freedoms needed for a democracy which is beyond the reach of the provincial (and perhaps also the federal) government. Then [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canadian Constitutional Law #23: Approaches to Charter Interpretation Well, it’s February and we made it to the Charter (if I only I could make it to spring break…) In this podcast we’ll talk about the advent of the Charter and some approaches the court has developed for its interpretation. Interpreting a constitutional document is different from regular statute interpretation, so Dickson [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maritime Law #4: Recovery of Non-Pecuniary Damages (with Prof. Force) If you have taken civil procedure or listened to one of Neil’s podcasts on the subject, you may be familiar with the Erie doctrine.  In matters of admiralty law, the reverse Erie doctrine applies; common law is created by the federal judiciary.  Such federal common law rules are even binding on state courts hearing an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Foundations of Canadian Law #3: Aboriginal Title This podcast we look atthe landmark Delgamuukw case, in which the Supreme Court recognized the aboriginal title held by several First Nations in BC. This title is not the same as ownership, it is the sui generis right to exclusive use and occupation of the land, inalienable but to the crown. (If [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Foundations of Canadian Law #4: Conceptions of Justice What is justice? Is it the same as law? What happens when laws are unjust or harmful to us? In this episode we discuss Aristotle’s Ethics, Plato’s Republic and Dialogues, and Sophocles’ Anitgone. We will discuss different conceptions of justice, and the moral dilemna that arises in regards to obeying laws which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Foundations of Canadian Law #5: Rules and Obligations As Foundations abruptly stops being simple, I attempt to explain the philosophies of HLA Hart and Ronald Dworkin regarding the nature of law, legal systems, and the source of our obligations to obey. Hart’s positivism views law as seperate from morality (more on this next podcast), and explains obligations as a product of social [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Foundations of Canadian Law #6: The Hart-Fuller Debate This podcast we will do a brief overview of the Hart-Fuller debate. What happens when two overeducated professors duke it out in the Harvard Law Review? Hart defends the positivist stance that law and morality are seperate, while Fuller maintains that law must encompass a certain amount of morality to explain its binding [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Constitutional Law (Samuel) #1: Standing Plaintiffs have standing when the court finds that there is (I) an legally-recognised harm to the plaintiff, (II) a reasonable causal connexion between the injury to the plaintiff and the complained-of conduct of the defendant, and (III) a likelihood that an affirmative ruling will vindicate the rights of the plaintiff. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Torts (Marc) #1: Liability Based on Fault Modern tort law recognizes three bases for finding liability: intentional conduct, negligence and strict liability. In this episode I provide a brief overview of how this framework developed and evolved in our legal system. Weaver v. Ward Brown v. Kendall Cohen v. Petty Spano v. Perini Corp. Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Torts (Marc) #2: Intent Before beginning an examination of the specific causes of action for intentional torts, I discuss a number of cases that illustrate the two prong test that civil courts have adopted in determining if conduct can be considered intentional under tort law. Garrat v. Daily Spivey v. Battaglia Ranson v. Kitner McGuire v. Almy Talmage v. Smith Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Torts (Marc) #3: Civil Assault and Battery In this episode I examine two related forms of intentional tort, battery and assault, and attempt to illustrate that in the world of civil litigation, the terms assault and battery do not have the same meaning as they do in a criminal context. Wallace v. Rosen Fisher v. Carrousel Western Union Telegraph C. v Hill Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Law School Experience #1: Orientation Week Almost all law schools provide some sort of orientation program for incoming students immediately prior to the first day of classes. In this episode I share some of my experiences during Tulane’s orientation week. Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property Law #23: Tenant Protections Tenants have some protections to ensure that they are getting a fair shake from their landlord. The two that we will discussion in this episode are the covenant of quiet enjoyment (ie you will not be constructively evicted) and the warranty of habitability. Reste Realty Corp. v. Cooper Hilder v. St. Peter Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property Law #24: Nuisance I Nuisance is where the use of one property creates a substantial and unreasonable interference with the rights of another property owner. In this episode I explain the basics of nuisance, as well as apply it to copyright law. Morgan v. High Penn Oil Co. Estancias Dalls Corp. v. Schultz Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property Law #25: Nuisance II We complete our discussion of nuisance by looking more closely at the remedies available for a nuisance. Do we just give monetary damages, or do we also give an injunction to shut the nuisance down? To answer this question we must often balance the equities. We will also consider what might happen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property Law #26: Easements I An easement is a permanent right to use another person’s land. It does not give a right of possession, nor is it a temporary use license. The four types of easement creation mechanisms we will begin to look at in this episode are grant, implication (aka necessity), prescription, and estoppel. We will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property Law #27: Easements II In this episode we continue our discussion of easements with two more cases. Van Sandt v. Royster Othen v. Rosier Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property Law #28: Easements III We conclude our discussion of easements by examining, among other things, the scope of an easement. Brown v. 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