Podcast Episodes

Wills (2023): Property disposition (Part One)

Lapse and anti-lapse.

Lapse and anti-lapse are complementary concepts under the US law of wills, which address the disposition of property that is willed to someone who dies before the testator (the …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Cohabitation (Part Two)

Abuse and infidelity.

University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite found that "16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their partners became physical during the past year, while …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Intellectual property (2023): Abandonware (Part One)

Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available.

Within an intellectual rights contextual background, abandonware i…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Judicial remedies (2023): Reliance damages + Statutory damages + Treble damages

Reliance damages is the measure of compensation given to a person who suffered an economic harm for acting in reliance on a party who failed to fulfill their obligation. If the injured party could go…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Defenses to liability

In a civil proceeding or criminal prosecution under the common law or under statute, a defendant may raise a defense in an effort to avert civil liability or criminal conviction. A defense is put for…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Wills (2023): Insane delusion + No-contest clause

Insane delusion is the legal term of art in the common law tradition used to describe a false conception of reality that a testator of a will adheres to against all reason and evidence to the contrar…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Cohabitation (Part One)

Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not married, usually couples, live together. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent ba…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Intellectual property (2023): Trademark (Part Four)

Domain names.

The advent of the domain name system has led to attempts by trademark holders to enforce their rights over domain names that are similar or identical to their existing trademarks, parti…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Judicial remedies (2023): Incidental damage + Consequential damages + Liquidated damages

Incidental damages.

Incidental damages refers to the type of legal damages that are reasonably associated with, or related to, actual damages.

In American commercial law, incidental damages are a sel…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the state: Subversion (Part Two)

Economics.

Economics can be both a tool of the internal and external subversive. For the external subversive, simply cutting off credit can cause severe economic problems for a country. An example of…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago