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The Life of a Law Student project chronicles the material presented to and learned by law students across the country and around the world. The project was created by Neil Wehneman, an incoming transfer student at Indiana University at Indianapolis and led by Rob Wiltbank, a Criminal Justice undergrad at Delaware Tech and the University of Delaware. Feeds are segmented by course. Primary Format : Law Language : Unknown Also Listed as: 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 Podcasts Methings.com listings of Life of a Law Student Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Life of a Law Student Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #1: Introduction This is the first podcast in Canadian Immigration and refugee law. We begin by considering the historical evolution of immigration within Canada and then turn to some early immigration cases to consider the role that racism played in the immigration process. Union Colliery Co v Bryden (1899) Quong Wing v the King (1914) Canada v [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #2: Sovereignty and Open Boarders In this podcast, we will consider some of the theories of state sovereignty and the arguments for and against open boarders. This topic will span two podcasts. The first will focus on the writings of Carens and Walzer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #3: Sovereignty and Open Boarders, Part 2 This episode is a continuation of the discussion of open boarders from the previous podcast. We will focus on the writings of Catherine Dauvergne and Donald Galloway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #4: National Status In this podcast, we will consider the different types of status that may be held by an individual in Canada - Citizen, Permanent Resident, and Foreign National. We will begin a preliminary examination of the effect a different status can make on one’s rights, which shall be expanded upon throughout the course. Chen v Canada [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #5: Constitutional Review In this podcast we will consider the issue of constitutional review, specifically whether section 7 of the charter is violated by deportation. Singh v Minister of Employment and Immigration (1985) Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration) v Chiarelli (1992) Suresh v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (2002) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #1: High-Level Overview of Copyright In this, the first episode of Fundamentals of Copyright, Prof. Kenneth Crews gives a high-level overview of copyright law. Essentially, the law gives specific rights to the holder of a copyright and then carves out certain exceptions. Copyright is granted automatically to a wide range of works, and lasts for a very long [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #2: Basic Mantra and Some Exceptions In this episode, Prof. Crews looks at the basic mantra of copyright: copyright applies instantly and automatically to original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Some of the exceptions to copyright are examined, such as facts, ideas, and works of the federal government being outside of copyright. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #3: Duration of Copyright I Copyright lasts for a very long time. For works created after 1977, the term of copyright is life of the author plus seventy years. However, previous copyright acts had different rules, and those rules will affect the duration of pre-1978 works. Prof. Crews also mentions joint authorship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #4: Duration of Copyright II The duration of a copyright is treated slightly differently if the work is a “work made for hire.” In this episode, Prof. Crews defines “work made for hire,” and looks at the specific issues regarding these works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #5: The Five Exclusive Rights and Moral Rights The core of copyright revolves around the five exclusive rights. These rights include the right of reproduction, distribution, public display, public performance, and the creation of derivative works. The concept of “moral rights” are also discussed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #6: Fair Use I The “exclusive rights” of copyright aren’t exactly exclusive. There are numerous exceptions and limitations to these rights, with Fair Use being the most important of these. In this first episode on Fair Use, Prof. Crews examines the four statutory factors of Fair Use. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #7: Fair Use II In this second episode of Fair Use, Prof. Crews examines two actual court cases applying Fair Use. The first case concerns photocopying by Kinko’s, and the second case concerns 2 Live Crew’s parody of the song “Pretty Woman.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #8: Fair Use III Fair Use provides guidelines, but very few hard and fast rules. As an example, sometimes using large amounts of a copyrighted work (perhaps even all of the copyrighted work) will qualify as a Fair Use, while sometimes using only a small amount of a copyrighted work will not qualify as Fair Use. As [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #9: Fair Use IV In this final episode on Fair Use, Prof. Crews reviews and wraps up Fair Use. Additionally, Prof. Crews discusses hard and fast “guidelines” that are often promulgated in the fields of education and libraries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #10: Other Limitations and Exceptions Fair Use is not the only limitation or exception to the exclusive rights of copyright. In this episode, Prof. Crews walks through several other limitations and exceptions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fundamentals of Copyright #11: Non-Copyright Concerns Copyright is not the only law you have to be aware of when considering whether or not to use a work. Patents, trademarks, trade secrets, contracts, and other issues may provide an additional “layer of protection” beyond just copyright. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News and Views #22: New Feeds and Podcast Awards! This is a quick podcast to tell you about a couple of new feeds we have no for the Fall and to request your help! To begin with, Episode 1 of our Criminal Judiciary podcast is up and available!  By tomorrow, I’m hoping to have up the first episode of the Introduction to Criminal Justice podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intro to Criminal Justice #1: Justice and Public Safety Benjamin Franklin was once quoted as saying, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  There’s a balance that must be struck between maintaing individual rights while balancing them against the interest of public safety.  In this, our innaugural episode of Introduction to Criminal Justice, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Criminal Judiciary #2: Law and Crime In this episode of Criminal Judiciary, we get a brief overview of the history of our law and its English roots.  Common law, civil law and criminal law and basic legal concepts are explained and we learn the different between “beyond a reasonable doubt” and “beyond a preponderanceof the evidence.” Just a reminder that in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News and Views #23: New Feeds And Nominations In this episode, we let you know that our two new feeds are both finally up — Introduction to Criminal Justice is a 100-level Criminal Justice course for Delaware Tech and Criminal Judiciary is a 200-level Criminal Justice course at Delaware Tech.  Both feeds should be up on iTunes shortly; however, in the mean time, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website