On the Bus
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Fourteenth. Of TITLE by DESCENT. This chapter is not about nature. You would think that family inheritance would be an ideal place...
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Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law Launches Online July 13, 2020 @JTasioulas @YTLKings @KCL_Law @CambridgeUP
The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law , edited by John Tasioulas, Kings College, London, launches online on July 13, 2020. Here’s a description of the contents of the work. What is the...
Showtime
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Thirteenth. Of the TITLE to THINGS REAL, in General. This chapter is about feelings and actions and how one leads to the...
Finders Keepers
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Twelfth. Of ESTATES in SEVERALTY, JOINT-TENANCY, COPARCENARY, and COMMON. This chapter is about invention and discovery. The ostensible subject is the different...
In Praise of Artifice
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Eleventh. Of Estates in Possession, Remainder and Reversion. This chapter is about a marginal area of property...
Mendlow on Thoughts, Crimes, and Thought Crimes @UMichLaw
Gabriel Mendlow, University of Michigan Law School; University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy, is publishing Thoughts, Crimes, and Thought Crimes in volume 118 of the Michigan Law Review (2020). Here is the abstract. Thought...
Our Bodies, Our Castles, Our Countries, Ourselves
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Tenth. Of Estates, upon Condition. This chapter is haunted. The estates Blackstone describes here have an almost...
Property, Liberty, Identity
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Ninth. Of Estates, Less than Freehold. This chapter is about how to give somebody property without giving him...
Blackstone Plants a Tree
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Eighth. Of FREEHOLDS, NOT of INHERITANCE. There’s a saying that the rich plan for three generations while the poor plan for...
Forthcoming: Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 2 @hartpublishing
Forthcoming: Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 2: Normativism and Anti-normativism in Law (Christoph Bezemek, Michael Potacs, and Alexander Somek eds., Hart Publishing, 2020). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of...