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We are presenting Wesley Hohfeld’s fourfold classification of legal entitlements this week, and we discussed “powers” and “immunities” in our previous two posts. In this post, we will examine liberty rights (often referred to as “privileges”). Legal scholar Joseph Singer … Continue reading →

This week, we are revisiting Wesley Hohfeld’s fourfold taxonomy of legal rights (the great Professor Hohfeld is pictured below), and we already examined “immunities from authority” in our previous post. Here, we will explore another type of right or entitlement: … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I introduced (via Larry Solum’s legal theory blog) Wesley Hohfeld’s influential fourfold taxonomy of “entitlements” or legal rights: claim rights, liberty rights, powers, and immunities. Let’s now take a closer look at Hohfeld’s taxonomy, beginning (in … Continue reading →

The great Wesley Hohfeld (the Dmitri Mendeleev of law) famously identified four types of legal rights: claim rights, liberty rights, powers, and immunities. Alas, Hohfeld’s own writings explaining his fourfold taxonomy are not very “user friendly.” Via our colleague and … Continue reading →

A stakeholder without a veto is just window dressing, but if there are too many stakeholders with veto rights, nothing gets done. Mark J. Dunkleman’s excellent history of New York City’s Penn Station provides an instructive case study of this … Continue reading →

Sunday funday! Animation by Natsumi Comoto (hat tip: Kottke).

Is Disney’s Star Wars strategy counter-productive? More details about Disney’s decision-making are available here. (Also, here is Wikipedia’s entry for diminshing marginal utility.)

Apparently not, as noted in this fascinating report by Michael Schulson on “The Physics (and Economics, and Politics) of Wheelchairs on Planes.” File under: Hmmm.

Another police chase (this one in South Florida) on busy highways led to the deaths of two innocent civilians, including Frank Ordoñez, a UPS driver and father of two children. Call me a “Monday morning quarterback,” but why didn’t the … Continue reading →

During the last ten years (2009-2019), I authored or co-authored the following five papers in which I explored a wide variety of popular culture artifacts (novels, movies, TV shows, urban legends, etc.) from a legal perspective: 1. Gödel’s loophole (2013) … Continue reading →