Law

1. Why are there philosophical questions about how legal codes should be structured?
2. What questions are there regarding legal concepts of liability, punishment, criminalization, civil liability, and promise keeping?
3. Why is it important to be concerned in the criminal law whether someone has guilt mind? ( look especially at Golding, but also Finkelstien and Husak)
4. What are negligence and recklessness, and why are they essential for holding people responsible? Should people be held similarly responsible for acts done knowingly and purposively?
5. What is the purpose of tort law? Why do penalties need to be paid for the affects our actions have on others? In the case of the Buick Motor Company v. McPherson (1916), manufactured products were held to be the responsibility of the manufacturer in some cases even after they were sold for resale. (This is known as the elimination of privity.) In the case of Greenman V. Yuba Powers Products (1963), courts held that in civil law, actors could be held responsible for damages under strict liability as a nor negligence was shown. What are the reasons for accepting strict liability as a standard? What would be the argument for requiring a finding of negligence?
6. Why does criminal law and its punishment require some finding of intent or negligence, where tort law allows strict liability? Should they be placed on the same standard?