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Law’s little spiders: building the seamless web

Note: This is the last of five blog posts covering Module 2 of my summer “Tiger Law” course. Thus far, we have described law as a “seamless web” and have explored three major areas of this massive tangled cobweb: State … Continue reading →

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College Park

Happy Cuban Independence Day! I am still dreaming of a Cuba Libre; in the meantime, I am interrupting (once again) my extended review of Week 2 of my “tiger law” course in order to share some delightful pictures I took … Continue reading →

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Treaties, customs, and human rights: the outer edges of law’s seamless web

Note: This is the fourth of five blog posts covering Module 2 of my business law summer course (Tiger King edition). Part D of Module 2 is devoted to the third major source of law: the Law of Nations or … Continue reading →

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Federal law: the expanding web

Note: This is the third of five blog posts devoted to Module 2 of my business law summer course (Tiger King edition). Previously, we introduced F. W. Maitland’s beautiful metaphor of law as a seamless web, and we briefly examined … Continue reading →

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The law is a seamless web

Note: This is the second of several blog posts devoted to Module 2 of my business law summer course (Tiger King edition). Let’s jump into Module 2, shall we? In summary, this module is devoted to the main “Sources of … Continue reading →

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The Politics of Chess

I am interrupting my review of Week 2 of Tiger Law to share one of the most timely and creative chess sets I have ever seen. Crazy, right! Hat tip: the Amazing and Incomparable Tyler Cowen, via Marginal Revolution.

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Preview of Module 2 of Tiger King Law

Module 2 of my legal/ethical environment survey course is devoted to the main sources of law in the U.S. legal system–State, federal, and international law–and is divided into six parts as follows: A. Introduction to the main sources of law … Continue reading →

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Double Probability

The classic film noir “Double Indemnity” inspired the title of this pithy blog post; the nested dice pictured below are blowing my mind. (Also, imagine the look on the faces of your family or friends if you were to bust … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 and Property Rights Panel

Yesterday (Friday, May 15), Ilya Somin and I debated whether the takings clause of the Constitution applies to coronavirus lockdown orders. (Because courts usually rule for the government, I championed a natural rights perspective to this question.) Our scholarly and … Continue reading →

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The wealthiest man or woman in every State

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