Podcast Episodes

Tort law (2022): Principles of negligence: Attractive nuisance doctrine + Comparative responsibility + Contributory negligence

Season 16 Episode 48

The attractive nuisance doctrine applies to the law of torts in some jurisdictions. It states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is cau…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Taxation in the US: State and local taxation (Part 3)

Season 17 Episode 45

Alternative tax bases (AMT, states).

An alternative minimum tax (AMT) is imposed at the federal level on a somewhat modified version of taxable income. The tax applies to individuals and corporations…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Property law (2022): Related topics: Fixture + Waste

Season 17 Episode 40

A fixture, as a legal concept, means any physical property that is permanently attached (fixed) to real property (usually land). Property not affixed to real property is considered chattel property. …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Sexual offenses: Obscenity

Season 17 Episode 40

An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. It is derived from the Latin obscēnus, obscaenus, "boding ill; disgusting; indecent", of uncertain etymo…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Conflict of laws and private international law (2022): Public policy doctrine

Season 20 Episode 6

In private international law, the public policy doctrine or ordre public ("public order") concerns the body of principles that underpin the operation of legal systems in each state. This addresses th…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Tort law (2022): Principles of negligence: Rescue doctrine + Duty to rescue

Season 16 Episode 46

In the USA, the rescue doctrine of the law of torts holds that if a tortfeasor creates a circumstance that places the tort victim in danger, the tortfeasor is liable not only for the harm caused to t…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Taxation in the US: State and local taxation (Part 2)

Season 17 Episode 44

Income tax.

Taxes based on income are imposed at the federal, most state, and some local levels within the United States. The tax systems within each jurisdiction may define taxable income separately…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Property law (2022): Nonpossessory interest in land: Usufruct + Equitable servitude

Season 17 Episode 39

An equitable servitude is a term used in the law of real property to describe a nonpossessory interest in land that operates much like a covenant running with the land. In England and Wales the term…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Sexual offenses: Fornication + Monogamy

Season 17 Episode 39

Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other. When one or more of the partners having consensual sexual intercourse is married to another person…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Conflict of laws and private international law (2022): Conflict of laws in the United States

Season 20 Episode 5

Conflict of laws in the United States is the field of procedural law dealing with choice of law rules when a legal action implicates the substantive laws of more than one jurisdiction and a court mus…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago