Podcast Episodes

Tort law (2022): Principles of negligence: Restitutio ad integrum

Season 16 Episode 45

Restitutio ad integrum, or restitutio in integrum, is a Latin term that means "restoration to original condition". It is one of the primary guiding principles behind the awarding of damages in common…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Taxation in the US: State and local taxation

Season 17 Episode 43

The United States of America has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, divide…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Property law (2022): Nonpossessory interest in land: Easement (Part Two)

Season 15 Episode 35

Easement by prescription:

Easements by prescription, also called prescriptive easements, are implied easements granted after the dominant estate has used the property in a hostile, continuous and ope…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Sexual offenses: Adultery

Season 17 Episode 38

Adultery (from Latin adulterium) is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. Although the sexual activities that constitute adultery vary, as w…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Conflict of laws and private international law (2022): Choice of law

Season 20 Episode 4

Choice of law is a procedural stage in the litigation of a case involving the conflict of laws when it is necessary to reconcile the differences between the laws of different legal jurisdictions, suc…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Tort law (2022): Principles of negligence: Res ipsa loquitur

Season 16 Episode 44

Res ipsa loquitur (Latin: "the thing speaks for itself") is a doctrine in the Anglo-American common law and Roman-Dutch law that says in a tort or civil lawsuit a court can infer negligence from the …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Taxation in the US: Tax resistance (Part Two)

Season 16 Episode 42

Undermining Reconstruction state governments.

After the American Civil War, the United States government established Reconstruction era governments in the states of the former Confederacy that includ…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

(Re-upload-corrected error) Property law (2022): Nonpossessory interest in land: Easement (Part One)

Season 15 Episode 34

An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it. It is "best typified in the right of way which one landowner, A, may enjoy over the l…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Sexual offenses: Introduction

Season 17 Episode 37

Sex and the law deals with the regulation by law of human sexual activity. Sex laws vary from one place or jurisdiction to another, and have varied over time, and unlawful sexual acts are also called…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Conflict of laws and private international law (2022): Preliminaries: Renvoi + Incidental question

Season 20 Episode 3

In conflict of laws, renvoi (from the French, meaning "send back" or "to return unopened") is a subset of the choice of law rules and it may be applied whenever a forum court is directed to consider …

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago