Laws should not rule over people—they should empower them. Nomodynamy is neither archy nor cracy because it does not impose coercion. Instead, it identifies the structures that crowd out coercion itself. A system where capability flourishes, and control fades.

#Nomodynamy #Freedom #LegalTheory #Innovation #Decentralization #SelfGovernance

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Last week, we reviewed Rebecca Stone's work on freedom of contract. Today, we review @DaganHanoch's 2024 Maatsricht Private Law Lecture on the same topic.

#law #contracts #LegalTheory #scholarship #academia

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/10/two-takes-on-freedom-of-contract-part-ii-hanoch-dagan.html

Rebecca Stone has a new take on freedom of contract. I can't summarize it in a Tweet, but I can try in a blog post, and I do so here:

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/10/two-takes-of-freedom-of-contract-part-i-rebecca-stone.html

#law #contracts #FreedomofContract #scholarship #academia #LegalPhilosophy #LegalTheory

Taking Big Oil to Court for ‘Climate Homicide’ Isn’t as Far-Fetched as It Sounds | The-14

Are fossil fuel companies guilty of actual murder? Homicide opens up a new flank in the strategy to bring climate change into the courts. Climate litigation is now in its “third wave,” according to Anthony Moffa, a professor at the University of Maine School of Law. The first lawsuits sought to force power companies to

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Concluding the exploratory phase of the #LegalTheory #KnowledgeGraph project, I have also published a list of tools and resources which I collected in that phase. It is outdated because it does not reflect the #LLM-revolution in #NLP, but maybe you'll find something that you do not already know: https://github.com/cboulanger/ltkg-tools/blob/main/README.md
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Legal Theory Knowledge Graph Project - Tools and Resources - cboulanger/ltkg-tools

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Inalienable Rights: Part I The Basic Argument

What is the inalienable rights theory that descends from the Reformation through the Enlightenment and that answers the classical apologies for slavery and autocracy based on implicit or explicit voluntary contracts?

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A Heap of IP at Santa Clara (WIPIP 2024)

Today I presented my work in progress, "A Heap of IP: Vagueness in the Delineation of Intellectual Property Rights," at the Works-in-Progress in Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Conference at Santa Clara University School of Law. This project seeks to connect philosophical literature on v

https://jeremysheff.com/2024/02/03/a-heap-of-ip-at-santa-clara-wipip-2024/

#LegalTheory #Scholarship #IntellectualProperty #LawAndPhilosophy #LegalScholarship

A Heap of IP at Santa Clara (WIPIP 2024) – Jeremy Sheff

Please meet the physical copy of my article on "norm-knitting" and the master-piece of my Grandma that inspired this article. She found it an interesting challenge to combine so many different kinds of wool in an asymmetrical pattern. #change #internationallaw #legaltheory #lawandhumanities #law #humanrights #environment #knitting
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What has #knitting to do with legal change? Everything! My article in the LJIL uses the example of #HumanRights concerned with the #environment in order to explore how thinking in terms of #knitting helps to understand the ways in which international norms #change #internationallaw #legaltheory #lawandhumanities #law https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/conceptualizing-legal-change-as-normknitting-through-the-example-of-the-environmental-human-right/B71D455D6CC0C09AC0277B29CC4639F0
Conceptualizing legal change as ‘norm-knitting’ through the example of the environmental human right | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core

Conceptualizing legal change as ‘norm-knitting’ through the example of the environmental human right

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