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Why do public officials in D.C. get to run red lights?
File this entry under Third World America, i.e. a country where our laws don’t apply to the most powerful people in our government. We were walking toward Metro Center in Washington D.C. around 11pm when we witnessed a mini-convoy consisting … Continue reading
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Time Out
We won’t be blogging too much during the next few days because we are attending a workshop for law professors in public choice economics at George Mason University.
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Necessity as an ex post exception
Note: this is the second in a series of five posts on the common law doctrine of necessity. In our previous post (9/1), we presented three general theories of the legal doctrine of necessity. Here, we consider the first of … Continue reading
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Three theories of necessity (Post 1 of 5)
In our previous post, we compared and contrasted the standard version of the Trolley Problem with Lon Fuller’s “Case of Speluncean Explorers.” Another possible commonality between both hypotheticals is the legal theory of necessity. Since both cases involve thought experiments that present … Continue reading
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Lon Fuller’s Speluncean Explorers
In our previous post, we mentioned Peter Suber’s beautiful book on Lon Fuller’s fictional “Case of the Speluncean Explorers.” By way of background, this hypothetical case occurs in the year 4300 A.D. in the Commonwealth of Newgarth. The relevant facts … Continue reading
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In praise of Peter Suber
We first discovered the work of Peter Suber, formerly a legal philosopher at Earlham College and now a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, sometime in 2011 or 2012, while we researching and writing up our … Continue reading
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