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The Possibility of Rule of Law: Legal Reasoning in 30 Lectures
Rule of law is a way of thinking
Completed · 51 episodes
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Leung Man-tao: This Program Offers Systematic Answers to Concrete Legal Problems 0. Before the Law: Welcome to the Imperfect World of Rule of Law 1. Why Do Modern People Need Legal Reasoning? Meeting Complexity and Uncertainty in the Real World 2. Rule of Law or Rule by Law? Beginning with the Policy of Fewer Arrests, Cautious Prosecution, and Cautious Detention 3. Can Retiring Be Illegal? What a Woman Worker's Retirement Teaches about Rule-Based Reasoning 4. May Bicycles Enter a Park? Four Methods for Interpreting Legal Rules 5. Can “Unjust Enrichment” Really Be Kept? Filling Gaps in the Law Extra | Does an Offer Guarantee the Job? Dismissal during Probation after CALB Let New Graduates Go Extra | When Can We Finally Retire—and Could We Still Lose Our Pensions? 6. Money Vanishes from a Bank Card: Who Pays? Precedent through Guiding Cases and Similar-Case Research 7. Even If a Ruling Is Wrong, Must It Be Consistently Wrong? Authority and a Contractor's Workplace-Injury Case Extra | How Can Ordinary People Protect Themselves from Online Abuse? The Draft Opinion on Punishing Cyberviolence Extra | Should the Teen Who Hugged Messi Be Detained? Rules and Precedent in a Debate among Three Law Professors 8. Are Courts Sometimes Powerless? Systems Thinking Practiced in Individual Cases Do You Remember Bao Li, Driven to Death by “PUA”? Rule-Based Reasoning in the Mou Linhan Abuse Case | Extra 9. Did Ever-Present Evil, Suffering, and Injustice Create Rights? | Where Do Your Rights Come From? 10. Is a “Right to Chastity” a Legal Right? | Justification: How New Rights Gain Acceptance 11. Can Students from Four Provinces Jointly Found a “Shanhe University”? | Realization: Without Remedy, There Is No Right 12. Can Students for Fair Admissions Represent Asian Students Suing Harvard? | Struggle: Is There a Moral Duty to Fight for Rights? 13. Voyeurism, Secret Filming, and Data Leaks: How Do We Protect Ourselves in an Age of Surveillance? | Do We Have a Right to Be Forgotten? 14. Do Platforms Control Speech? Private Power in Trump's Social-Media Ban 15. May Agricultural Inspectors Enter a Village to Seize Chickens? Power beyond Its Boundaries Is Violence 16. Can Public Power Reverse Itself Overnight? Hamilton and the Principle of Legitimate Expectation 17. Should Troubled Times Be Governed with Harsh Punishments? Proportionality in the Exercise of Public Power 18. What If Public Authorities Refuse to Act? Lists of Powers and Responsibilities 19. Why Is It So Hard for Women to Win Sexual-Harassment Suits? Legal Facts Constructed through Evidence Can Evidence Be Wrong? How Twelve Angry Men Shows Errors in Constructing Facts | Film Extra Why Did They Risk Their Lives to “Stop an Execution”? Evidence and Fact in The Life of David Gale | Film Extra 20. A Photographer Uses His Own Image—and Somehow Infringes Visual China's Copyright? “The Claimant Bears the Burden of Proof” 21. Can Secret Audio or Video Recordings Be Evidence? Courtroom Examination and Admissibility 22. Can Judges Supply Facts That Evidence Cannot? Free Evaluation of Evidence and the Highly Probable Standard 23. “Execute a Thousand by Mistake” or “Let a Thousand Go”? Proof beyond a Reasonable Doubt 24. Must Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Be Poisonous? Excluding Illegally Obtained Evidence Extra | The Draft Revision of the Public Security Administration Punishments Law Can Torture Ever Be Justified in Extreme Cases? The Warning of The Mauritanian | Film Extra Did Hong Kong Legal Dramas of the 1980s and 1990s Begin My Love of Law? Courtroom Performance in A Guilty Conscience and The Sparring Partner | Film Extra 25. Can We Trust Human Nature? Judge Bao vs. Lady Justice: Substantive and Procedural Justice 26. Can a Lawyer Who Defends a “Bad Person” Be Good? The Right to a Defense Should Anyone Defend Lao Rongzhi? A Lawyer's Right to Defend | Extra Is Law an Appealing Career? What Do You Do When You Learn More of a Client's Wrongdoing? | Extra 27. Jury Trials: Are Ordinary People More Reliable than Judges? 28. Public Opinion in Court: Hearings from Natural Justice to Legal Due Process 29. “You Have the Right to Remain Silent. Anything You Say…” | The Right to Silence and the Miranda Warning 30. From Freedom of Contract and Labor Protection to Substantive Due Process and Rule of Law How Should We Treat Stray Animals, and What Does the Law Say? | Extra 31. Conclusion: Thinking like a Great Legislator—from National Lawmaking to the Laws of the Soul “Avenging One's Mother” and “Killing after a Mother's Humiliation”: How Should Judges Treat Human Feeling? The Zhang Koukou and Yu Huan Cases | Finale Extra 1 Ten Years for Taking Birds, Five for Abducting a Child: How Does Law Determine Sentences? | Finale Extra 2 Can Providing Meals to Employees Be Illegal? Compassion and Law in the Case of Meals for Seniors | Finale Extra 3 Should “Immorality” Create Legal Liability? Law and Human Feeling in the Jiang Ge Case | Finale Extra 4 Listener Q&A: Was the Punishment of Liu Xin a Moral Judgment? What Happened to the Public Security Law? | Finale Extra 5