Yale Law Journal

can’t do in the game yet people are charged for crimes in the virtual world as if they were committing them in the real world. Punishment for virtual crimes should not be allowed, however, it must help us reconsider the need for the creation of new laws. Video games serve as an escape from reality, that’s why they’re called virtual reality. If we allow ourselves to apply punishments from the real world into this reality, you will see an increasing number of people who will do these things in…

else’s cattle they could and there was no punishment. This lack of punishment in Hobbes’s state of nature is the first difference in Hobbes and Locke’s views of the state of nature. Because in Hobbes’s state of nature there was no enforcement of the laws of…

utilize the concepts of equality and sameness as interchangeable. However, each concept conveys two entirely different meanings. The concept of equality indicates that each individual possesses government ordained rights, which connotes equality by law. The concept of sameness promotes the idea that individuals require uniform treatment, regardless of equality. In Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s article “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”, Lowry’s novel “The Giver”, and Flannery O’Connor’s…

Document 1 is an extract from What is a Nation? by Ernest Renan, a French scholar known for his political theories on national identity. The document gives different aspects of what he claims forms a nation. It is written in 1882, in the period that the idea of nationalism was emerging with the 'rise of intra-European movements'.1 This could be argued to be partly the consequence of the resurgence of imperialism, which could have increased national feeling. France itself was recovering of her…

Christopher Kim Hamlet Insanity Synthesis Essay Hello. I am NY district attorney Christopher Kim present at the trial of Hamlet. We are here today to judge whether or not Hamlet is guilty for the cold-blooded murder of Polonius. Some say that it was an accident, while some say that it was on purpose. Due to this event, there has been much debate concerning the truth behind Hamlet’s (in)sanity. According to the evidence that I have gathered, I hold my position when I pronounce that Hamlet should…

when of the process of contacting people. PROGRESS TOWARDS GOALS FOR MY EXTERNSHIP I feel that basically I am on track meet the goals I described in the initial learning goals memo. I feel that I have been getting a good introduction to military law and what being a JAG, at least at one command, would be like. I have had the opportunity to obtain exposure to a wide range of activities. Looking forward to the second half of the semester, I would like to be further challenged with assignments…

revolution caused reforms to be made in favor of slaves in 1791. King Louis XIV enacted the Code Noir to benefit slaves (Warman 79). The king was helpful to improve conditions for slaves through new laws. Some of the laws were removing the use of whips and three days off of working per week. Another law proclaimed that if a slave was killed by their master then the master would be considered a murderer. Something else that improved conditions for slaves was that they were allowed to have a…

2.1.1 Theories of Justice Commutative Justice This type of justice, according to Sixtus Adeola, in his book, Justice and its Implications, is a “virtue that regulates the activities of people in any given community; which also includes the rights between one individual and another individual” (25). He believes that in commutative justice, “the concept of restitution is much more emphasised, and that any violation of commutative justice imposes on the guilty party the duty of restitution” (30).…

Robert D. Putnam establishes social capital as the trivial umbrella that encompasses norms, trust, network, reciprocity, collectiveness, collaboration and interconnectivity. All of these individual components combined are remarkably important for the solidification of democracy. The presence of a concrete social capital indicates that coordination and cooperation for a mutual advantage is conducted (Putnam 384). However, in his article “Bowling Alone:America’s Declining Social Capital,” Putnam…

Tricia Rose’s “The Hip Hop Wars” commences and entitles the first chapter as “Hip Hop Causes Violence.” Before furthering on with the chapter, one may intuitively develop a bias supposition that what is titled is based on an actual fact without having any valid evidence to prove why it is the way it is. Tricia Rose, whom is an author, a scholar, and a public speaker presented an argument stating “a key aspect of much of the criticism that has been leveled at hip hop is the claim that it…