Legal Responsibility and Rights

📋 Course Outline

1. Felony murder rule definition, application, and key legal terms
2. Distinctions among types of homicide and mens rea in felony murder
3. Major case example and debates on felony murder rule fairness
4. Punitive damages definition, purpose, and awarding criteria
5. Key issues, debates, regulation, and important case law on punitive damages
6. Freedom of speech constitutional basis and protected vs unprotected speech
7. Key Supreme Court cases and doctrines on freedom of speech
8. Gun control constitutional basis, interpretations, and key legal concepts
9. Important gun control case law, debates, and regulatory challenges in the US
10. Comparative overview of US and European approaches to hate speech and gun control
11. Judicial selection, legal system structure, and punishment principles in US law
12. Critical legal principles and constitutional limits on punitive damages and speech restrictions

📖 1. Felony murder rule definition, application, and key legal terms

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Felony murder rule : a legal doctrine that considers any death occurring during the commission of a felony as murder, regardless of intent to kill. It holds all participants in the felony equally liable for such deaths, including accomplices, even if they did not kill, did not intend to kill, or were not present at the scene.

• Felony : a serious crime such as burglary, robbery, rape, arson, or kidnapping.