[IntLawProfessors] [TILDS] U.S. PRESIDENT'S LAWYER TOTURE MEMO CASE [1 Attachment]

[Geoffrey Hartwell]

Thank you.

 

One proposition seems strange.  The report appears to say, "      Padilla
and Lebron acknowledge that at the time Yoo served as Deputy Assistant
Attorney General at OLC, there did not exist a "single judicial opinion,"
holding that a United States citizen held in military detention as an enemy
combatant possessed rights against the kind of treatment to which Padilla
was subjected."

 

If I have understood the common law correctly - and what layman can
understand such an esoteric mystery? - the Law remains the same, Judges
discover it, they don't change it.
Doesn't that mean that, if no Judge will decide in the absence of "a single
judicial opinion" the whole dynamic of the common law is lost?  Doesn't that
reduce the Judge to a powerless functionary, unable to pronounce on or
develop the law?

 

With kind regards,   

Geoffrey Hartwell

Professor Geoffrey M Beresford Hartwell  

 

From: TILDS at yahoogroups.com [mailto:TILDS at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
William Slomanson
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:13 AM
To: TILDS at yahoogroups.com; intlawprofessors at mailman.anu.edu.au;
kosovokids at chicagokent.kentlaw.edu
Subject: [TILDS] U.S. PRESIDENT'S LAWYER TOTURE MEMO CASE [1 Attachment]

 

  

[Attachment(s) from William Slomanson included below] 

I've uploaded the attached edited version to my Intl Law Course Web Page,
which I'll use in my fall class. I welcome suggested additions/deletions....
At only 7 pages long, I anticipate some reaction to succinctness; however, I
already cover too much & try to keep each online case a manageable length.
Done in Word, so you can edit, as well.

__._,_.___

Attachment(s) from William Slomanson

1 of 1 File(s) 

  <http://l.yimg.com/kq/static/images/yg/img/doc/doc16x16.gif>
<http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/22275810/1271398758/name/9%2E7_Padilla%2Edocx>
9.7_Padilla.docx

Reply to
<mailto:bills at tjsl.edu?subject=Re%3A%20U%2ES%2E%20PRESIDENT%27S%20LAWYER%20T
OTURE%20MEMO%20CASE> sender | Reply to
<mailto:TILDS at yahoogroups.com?subject=Re%3A%20U%2ES%2E%20PRESIDENT%27S%20LAW
YER%20TOTURE%20MEMO%20CASE> group | Reply
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TILDS/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJxb2Zpbzc0BF9TAzk3MzU5N
zE0BGdycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARtc2dJZAMyMDUxBHNlYwNmdHIEc
2xrA3JwbHkEc3RpbWUDMTMzNjQzOTYyMw--?act=reply&messageNum=2051> via web post
|
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TILDS/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbnFjZzkyBF9TAzk3MzU5N
zE0BGdycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0a
W1lAzEzMzY0Mzk2MjM-> Start a New Topic 

Messages in this topic
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TILDS/message/2051;_ylc=X3oDMTM1dWNuZXRiBF9TA
zk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARtc2dJZAMyMDUxBHNlY
wNmdHIEc2xrA3Z0cGMEc3RpbWUDMTMzNjQzOTYyMwR0cGNJZAMyMDUx>  (1) 

Recent Activity: 

 
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TILDS;_ylc=X3oDMTJmNHU3cDJmBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BG
dycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAz
EzMzY0Mzk2MjM-> Visit Your Group 

 
<http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJldnRjMjR1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyM
jc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTMzNjQzOTYyM
w--> Yahoo! Groups

Switch to:
<mailto:TILDS-traditional at yahoogroups.com?subject=Change%20Delivery%20Format
:%20Traditional> Text-Only,
<mailto:TILDS-digest at yahoogroups.com?subject=Email%20Delivery:%20Digest>
Daily Digest .
<mailto:TILDS-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe> Unsubscribe .
<http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Terms of Use

.

 
<http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=22275810/grpspId=1705059354/msgI
d=2051/stime=1336439623/nc1=5898816/nc2=3848640/nc3=3848585> 

__,_._,___

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/intlawprofessors/attachments/20120508/29d3eebe/attachment.html