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Note: This is the fourth of five blog posts devoted to Week 4/Module 4 of my business law course (Tiger King edition). Credit for the title of this particular blog post goes to the excellent Ed Timberlake (@TimberlakeLaw), a trademark … Continue reading →

Note: This is the third of five blog posts devoted to Week 4/Module 4 of my business law course (Tiger King edition). Last time, we explained why intellectual property rights are so important and deserve to be studied in depth … Continue reading →

I am interrupting my series of blog posts on Week 4 of my Tiger Law course because, in the last 24 hours, major newsworthy events have occurred in both the Tiger King saga and in the George Floyd case. Among … Continue reading →

Note: This is the second of several blog posts devoted to Week 4/Module 4 of my business law course (Tiger King edition). In my previous post, I provided an overview of Module 4 of my business law survey course. Module … Continue reading →

Note: This is the first of several blog posts devoted to Week 4/Module 4 of my business law summer course (Tiger King edition). I have been teaching a survey course in business law this summer. This course is entirely online … Continue reading →

Why haven’t the other three police officers involved in George Floyd’s death been charged yet? Here is Minnesota’s aiding and abetting statute, which makes it a crime to “intentionally aid” someone else to commit a crime.

Note: This is the last blog post in a series of posts on the president’s power to use military force to quell domestic disturbances inside the United States. Thus far, we have surveyed the enactment of five federal “domestic violence” … Continue reading →

I am interrupting my series of blog posts on the president’s power to use military force inside the United States to share this game-theoretic perspective of riots via The Scholar’s Stage (italics in original; hat tip: Tyler Cowen): “Riots then … Continue reading →

As of today (June 1), we have witnessed six days and six nights of protests, looting, and other civil disturbances in many cities across the U.S. following the extrajudicial police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. We assume this unrest … Continue reading →

Let’s proceed with our review of federal “domestic violence” law. When former Vice President Aaron Burr was accused of orchestrating a shadowy conspiracy to create an independent republic in North America in late 1805, President Thomas Jefferson took decisive military … Continue reading →