Make the Law by Walking
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Seventeenth. Of TITLE by PRESCRIPTION. This chapter is about a legal doctrine that is easy to articulate and hard to believe: by...
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Why Begin at the Beginning?
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Sixteenth. Of TITLE by OCCUPANCY. This chapter is about where things begin and what they become. For Blackstone, “the true ground and...
Barzun on The Tale of Two Harts: A Schlegelian Dialectic @UVALaw
Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law, has published The Tale of Two Harts; A Schlegelian Dialectic as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-55. Here is the abstract....
Escheating Death
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Fifteenth. Of TITLE by PURCHASE, and First by ESCHEAT. This chapter is about line drawing – and erasing. The focus is ostensibly...
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...
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...