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Life of a Law Student

Features a growing body of recorded courses meant to be shared among law students and those considering the study of law.
By Neil Wehneman

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Fundamentals of Copyright #10: Other Limitations and Exceptions

Posted on December 28, 2007
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. Download Standard Podcast

Fundamentals of Copyright #9: Fair Use IV

Posted on December 28, 2007
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. Download Standard Podcast

Fundamentals of Copyright #8: Fair Use III

Posted on December 28, 2007
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...

Fundamentals of Copyright #7: Fair Use II

Posted on December 28, 2007
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.” Download Standard Podcast

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Fundamentals of Copyright #6: Fair Use I

Posted on December 28, 2007
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...

Fundamentals of Copyright #5: The Five Exclusive Rights and Moral Rights

Posted on December 28, 2007
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...

Fundamentals of Copyright #4: Duration of Copyright II

Posted on December 28, 2007
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. Download Standard Podcast

Fundamentals of Copyright #3: Duration of Copyright I

Posted on December 28, 2007
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...

Fundamentals of Copyright #2: Basic Mantra and Some Exceptions

Posted on December 28, 2007
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...

Fundamentals of Copyright #1: High-Level Overview of Copyright

Posted on December 28, 2007
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 [...

Technical Problems

Posted on December 04, 2007
It’s been brought to my attention that audio is unavailable at the moment. This is a problem with our external host. I am looking into it, and hope for things to be resolved shortly. In the meantime, you might want to check http://lifeofalawstudent...

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #5: Constitutional Review

Posted on November 28, 2007
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) Download Standard Podcast

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #4: National Status

Posted on November 28, 2007
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...

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #3: Sovereignty and Open Boarders, Part 2

Posted on November 25, 2007
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. Download Standard Podcast

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #2: Sovereignty and Open Boarders

Posted on November 25, 2007
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. Download Standard Podcast

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #1: Introduction

Posted on November 25, 2007
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...

We?re Not Dead Yet!

Posted on October 08, 2007
Hey everyone. Just an FYI: I have not forgotten about or abandoned LoaLS. The transition back to law school has required significantly more time than I had expected. I also had to spend a great deal earlier this semester writing an appellate brief for Moot Court...

Canadian Constitutional Law #37 - Remedies and Reform

Posted on August 23, 2007
In this podcast we will discuss remedies within the constitution, and the process of constitutional reform within Canada. This is the final podcast in Canadian Constitutional Law. Schachter v Canada (1992) Vriend v Alta (1998) Download Canadian Constitutional Law 37

Canadian Constituional Law #36 - Aboriginal Rights

Posted on August 22, 2007
In the second-last podcast for the course, we move outside the Charter and consider the constitutional entrenchment of aboriginal rights in sec 35 of the Constitution Act 1982. Even though these rights are entrenched outside of the Charter, we will see how jurisprudence has imposed limits upon aboriginal rights in a style very similar [...

Canadian Consitutional Law #35: Language Rights

Posted on August 16, 2007
Language rights are very important in Canada as a result of the historical French-English tension. However, sections 91 and 92 do not assign administration of language-related issues to a specific level of government, so it is treated as an ancilliary sphere over which both levels of government have some control...

Canadian Constitutional Law #34: Economic and Social Rights

Posted on August 16, 2007
Why does the Charter focus on legal and politcal rights, to the exclusion of economic and social rights? What does this absence mean for Canadian citizens? Could economic and social rights be read into the charter under an existing section? That’s what Gosselin tries to do in Gosselin v Quebec, without success...

Canadian Constitutional Law #33: Equality Rights

Posted on August 16, 2007
In this podcast we will be discussing section 15 of the charter, equality rights. It is important to understand the difference between formal equality (American model) and substantive equality (Canadian model). We will consider the case of Law v Canada, which contains a very thorough analysis of equality rights by Iacobucci J...

Canadian Constitutional Law #32: Section 7 continued, Assisted Suicide

Posted on April 13, 2007
Continuing on with our look at section 7 rights, we will now consider the case of Rodriguez v BC (AG). A woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease seeks a declaration that she may legally seek doctor-assisted suicide when her condition deteriorates to the point that she wishes to end her life...

Canadian Constitutional Law #31: Life, Liberty, and Security of the Person

Posted on April 13, 2007
Moving on to section 7 of the Charter, the first and broadest of the legal rights (ss7-14), we consider life, liberty, and security of the person. This is often used in a criminal law setting, but the cases we looked at in class were more unique. In this podcast, we consider the meaning [...

Canadian Constitutional Law #30: Hate Speech

Posted on April 06, 2007
Is hate speech a form of expression? Can it earn the same Charter protection as dissident political speech? In this podcast, we will discuss hate speech, focusing mainly on R v Keegstra. We will briefly compare the Canadian and American conceptions of hate speech...

Canadian Constitutional Law #29: Freedom of Expression

Posted on April 06, 2007
What constitutes expression? Does it have to be speech, or can it include actions such as picketing? What restrictions on expression are justified? In our second podcast on fundamental freedoms, we will consider the importance given to free expression in our constitution (sec 2(b))...

Canadian Constitutional Law #28: Freedom of Religion

Posted on March 10, 2007
Can you take your kirpan to school? Not even if it’s in a box under your clothes? These are the questions of section 2(a), freedom of religion. We’ll talk about the evolution of the concept of freedom of religion and look at two cases as examples...

Canadian Constitutional Law #27: Section 33, Notwithstanding Clause

Posted on March 10, 2007
Section 33 of the Charter allows sections 2 and 7-15 to be overridden if parliament or a provincial legislature expressly declare that a law shall operate notwithstanding the charter. This section is almost never invoked by the government because of the political repercussions, but it was considered by the supreme court in Ford v [...

Canadian Constitutional Law # 26: Section 1 Analysis

Posted on March 09, 2007
If you listen to only one Canadian Constitutional Law podcast, it should be this one. Or maybe number 5, since that had both the landmark persons case and the concept of the constitution as a living tree. Well, let’s say if you listen to only two, this should be the second...

Canadian Constitutional Law #25: Application of the Charter and Charter Standing

Posted on March 09, 2007
Whose behaviour is bound by the Charter? Sec 32 tells us it applies to government (as opposed to private actors), but in practice this is more difficult to define than it would seem. We will look at a series of cases which define the limits of the Charter’s application...

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