The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
The common law of England has been laboriously built around a mythical figure—the figure of the reasonable man.
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.
I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.
Constitutionally you can't have a law go retroactively.
What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
There is no such thing as a hate crime.
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
Red flag law is a general concept. There could be good ones and there can be bad ones. You should be against the bad ones, as I am.
The law doesn't create a right.
A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
