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The best coaching session ever. What we will go through . Principles in greater depth Examples of ways to use principles Examples of ways to argue principles well Examples of moots and finding the principles Where to put the principle in the case How to win the principle
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What we will go through • Principles in greater depth • Examples of ways to use principles • Examples of ways to argue principles well • Examples of moots and finding the principles • Where to put the principle in the case • How to win the principle • Not necessarily in this order
What are some principles you can think of? • Go ahead • Tell me what you think
Principles • National sovereignty • Bodily autonomy • Role of the state • The market • Freedom of expression • Freedom of association • Freedom of speech • Liberty/freedom • Duty of care • Obligation to individuals/citizens • equality
Finding the principle • THW invade North Korea • What is the principle operating here?
Practice moot • THW make Holocaust denial illegal
Freedom of speech • To what extent can individuals in a WLD say what they like? • Harm principle? • When can we curb freedoms? • Is speech really harmful in a meaningful sense? • What about the ramifications of the speech? • Harmful when has a concomitant meaning?
Practice Moot • THW allow pregnancy for profit
Bodily autonomy • Do whatever we like with our bodies? • Is this circumscribed? When? • What harm accrues? • Should the baby be relevant? • Societal harms? To what extent should external factors mitigate our freedom? • When does this happen?
Practice • THW allow the burning of the Koran
Market principles • There are a few principles here • Freedom of speech, market of ideas, religious freedom • Most market of ideas principle – allow to be shut down in the marketplace • Freedom of expression and speech untrammelled? • Harmful? • Incenses…..
Practice • THW ban burqa
Freedom of expression • Why should someone be able to do what they want? • Why is liberty and self-determination important? • SELF ACTUALIZATION
SELF ACTUALIZATION • What does this mean? • why is it important? • Conception of the good