Harry Potter and the Criminal Liability of Werewolves
It is an elemental principle of criminal law that to be found guilty of a crime, one must have performed the proscribed actus reus, coinciding at some point with the requisite mens rea. A question that is not addressed by Canadian courts is how these concepts would be applied to a crime committed by a werewolf, as described in Harry PotterWhile mens rea is typically thought of as the mental element of the crime, it is not the only mental element. Voluntariness, a component of
