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View Poll Results: Would you be interested in threads discussing legal concepts?
Yes 4 66.67%
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Old 26th September 2008, 12:09 AM
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Default Legal theory threads: Would people be interested?
As a law school student I spend a great deal of breaking down law into a digestable form. I'm curious as to how an audience without legal training, and with a large number of non-US citizens, would respond to US law if it were presented in comprehensible English. If I were to occasionally post threads summarizing some concept of law, such as battery or trespass, would people be interested?
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I for one would be very interested to know how the US legal system works in relation to torts and to common criminal matters.

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I wouldn't be able to contribute anything sensible, since pretty much the only thing I carried away from my law degree was my tag-line, but yeah, why not?
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I wouldn't be able to contribute anything sensible, since pretty much the only thing I carried away from my law degree was my tag-line, but yeah, why not?
Don't be so modest

And, yeah, like Sarj, i'd be quite interested but, mostly, with a view of debating the most bizarre or extreme cases such as this guy taunting and shooting in the back 2 burglars and being able to walk away on 'self-defense'...
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Don't be so modest
Come on now Gilles

Give Neko a fair go

She might have a lot to be modest about


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And, yeah, like Sarj, i'd be quite interested but, mostly, with a view of debating the most bizarre or extreme cases such as this guy taunting and shooting in the back 2 burglars and being able to walk away on 'self-defense'...
My main interest would be to compare the legal system in the US with that in Australia.

Not so much on a theoretical level but as to how it effects the person in the street.
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Come on now Gilles

Give Neko a fair go

She might have a lot to be modest about
Not that that stops most people around here...

*hands in pockets, whistling innocently*
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Not that that stops most people around here...

*hands in pockets, whistling innocently*

I agree Neko

The only innocents around here are you and me - although I am not completely sure about you
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I think I'd be interested, time allowing.
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