OBJECTIVE The effective education method of medico-jurisprudence for medical students is unclear. The study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) model teaching medico-jurisprudence in clinical setting on General Law Knowledge (GLK) for medical students. MATERIALS AND METHODS Senior medical students attending either campus-based law curriculum or Obstetric...

The law can sometimes be glacial in its evolution, moving ever so slowly through fine points of interpretation by judges and equally careful (if not ponderous) processes of legislative reform. Only when an observer stands back and looks at a particular area of jurisprudence over a period of a few decades can the movement be clearly detected. In other instances, the law can seem to be like an ea...

Critics of Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have asserted that Virginia lacked standing to even raise the issue. Such criticism is inconsistent with foundational understandings of the role of states in providing a check on federal power and with the modern standing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, especially as reflected in the C...

Lon Fuller, in his response to H.L.A. Hart’s 1958 Holmes Lecture and elsewhere, argued that principles of legality—formal principles requiring, for example, that laws be clear, general, and prospective—constitute the “internal morality of law.” This Article contends that Hart never offered a clear response. Fuller’s claim supposes that observance of the principles of legality is both fundamenta...

S | 147 A Relevant Intent Theory of Patents Saurabh Vishnubhakat Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University School of Law Durham, NC This article challenges the axiom of U.S. patent law that direct patent infringement is a strict liability tort. Even among critics of the strict liability conception in certain patent contexts, the consensus view of direct infringement remains that impermissibly pra...

The critical perspectives of psychological jurisprudence identified above, along with their corresponding epistemological assumptions, reflect a radical agenda for change at the law-psychology divide. Although not exhaustively reviewed, the individual theories represent different approaches by which structural reform can be enacted and citizen well-being can therefore be realized. Collectively,...

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence / Volume 28 / Issue 01 / January 2015, pp 97 127 DOI: 10.1017/cjlj.2015.19, Published online: 20 February 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0841820915000193 How to cite this article: Amit Pundik (2015). Coercion and Deception in Sexual Relations. Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 28, pp 97-127 doi:10.1017/cjlj.2015....