Podcast Episodes

Tort law (2022): Principles of negligence: Proximate cause

Season 16 Episode 43

In law and insurance, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Taxation in the US: Tax resistance (Part One)

Tax resistance in the United States has been practiced at least since colonial times, and has played important parts in American history.

Tax resistance is the refusal to pay a tax, usually by means …

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

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

Season 15 Episode 33

Nomenclature.

Throughout the world, there are a large number of different types and sub-divisions of liens. Not all of the following liens exist in all legal systems that recognise the concept of a l…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the person: Stalking (Part Two)

Season 17 Episode 36

Types of stalkers.

Psychologists often group individuals who stalk into two categories: psychotic and nonpsychotic. Some stalkers may have pre-existing psychotic disorders such as delusional disorder…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Conflict of laws and private international law (2022): Preliminaries: Characterization

Season 20 Episode 2

Characterization, in conflict of laws, is the second stage of the procedure to resolve a lawsuit that involves foreign law. The process is described in English law as Characterisation, or classificat…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Tort law (2022): Principles of negligence: Reasonable person (Part Two)

Season 16 Episode 42

Personal circumstances.

The legal fiction of the reasonable person is an ideal, as nobody is perfect. Everyone has limitations, so the standard requires only that people act similarly to how "a reaso…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Taxation in the US: Tax evasion (Part Two)

Season 16 Episode 40

Whistleblower program.

In addition to the methods of proof the IRS has developed, the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 created the IRS Whistleblower Office, which allows anonymous whistle blowe…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Property law (2022): Nonpossessory interest in land: Lien (Part One)

Season 15 Episode 32

A nonpossessory interest in land is a term of the law of property to describe any of a category of rights held by one person to use land that is in the possession of another. Such rights can generall…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the person: Stalking (Part One)

Season 17 Episode 35

Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the vic…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Conflict of Laws (2022)

Season 20 Episode 1

Conflict of laws (also called private international law) is the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrence that has connections to more than one jurisdict…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago