English Common Law with Prof. Adam Gearey

Video Lectures

Displaying all 51 video lectures.
I. Week I: Dead Kings and Presidents: A Brief History of the Common Law
Lecture 1
Introduction to English Common Law
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Lecture 2
What is Law?
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What is Common Law?
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Student Chat: What Should Law Do?
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Forum Feedback
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Question Feedback 1
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Question Feedback 2
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Question Feedback 3
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II. Week II: See You In Court: The Court System and the Common Law
Lecture 9
Introduction to the Court System
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Lecture 10
Introduction to the Civil and Criminal Courts
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The Civil Courts
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The Criminal Courts
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The Supreme Court and the European Courts
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The Relationship of the Hierarchy of the Courts to the Doctrine of Precedent
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Common Law and Equity
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A Contemporary View of Common Law and Equity
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Live Session
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III. Week III: Supreme Power: Parliamentary Sovereignty and Law Making
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Introduction
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Lecture 19
Introduction to The Doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty
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Lecture 20
The Rise of Statute Law
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Legal and Political Sovereignty
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The European Union and Parliamentary Sovereignty
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The Human Rights Act and Parliamentary Sovereignty
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Lecture 24
The Contemporary Reality of Parliamentary Sovereignty Judges Parliament and the Human Rights Act
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IV. Week IV: Wigs and Pens: Judicial Law Making and the doctrine of Precedent
Lecture 25
Introduction
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Lecture 26
Overview of Judicial Precedent
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Judicial Precedent and the Role of the Judges
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Modern Practice of the House of Lords
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Decisions of the Court of Appeal
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Decisions of the Court of Appeal Further Developments
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Lecture 31
Judicial Law Making
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Judicial Law Making and the Human Rights Act
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Lecture 33
The Doctrine of Precedent and the European Court of Human Rights
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V. Week V: Reading the Riot Act: How Statutes are Interpreted
Lecture 34
Introduction to Statutes
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Challenges of Statutory Interpretation
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The Nature of Statutory Interpretation
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The Presumptions of Statutory Interpretation
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The Importance of Pepper v Hart
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The Effect of Bulmer v Bollinger
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Lecture 40
New Methods of Interpretation Some Case Law
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Purposive Interpretation Outside of the European Court
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Statutory Interpretation and the Human Rights Act
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VI. Week VI: After the War, Before the Peace: The European Union and Human Rights
Lecture 43
Introduction to EU Laws
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EU Treaties and ECHR
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Links between the present and past of the EU
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Foundational Values
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The Institutions of the EU
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EU Law
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Lecture 49
EU Convention of Human Rights
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Rights Contained in the European Convention
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Lecture 51
Rights Contained within the European Convention
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