Table of Contents

Introduction Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ted Sichelman and Henry E. Smith; Some fundamental legal conceptions as applied in judicial reasoning Ted Sichelman; Selected personal papers of Wesley N. Hohfeld Ted Sichelman; Part I. Philosophy of Jural Relations: 1. Hohfeld on legal language Frederick Schauer; 2. Rights correlativity David Frydrych; 3. Hohfeld and rules Andrew Halpin; 4. Logic and the life of the law (professor): A logocratic lesson from hohfeld Scott Brewer; Part II. Hohfeld and Property: 5. Property's building blocks: Hohfeld in Europe and beyond Anna di Robilant and Talha Syed; 6. The in rem/in personam distinction and conceptual partitioning for persistence Shyamkrishna Balganesh and Leo Katz; 7. Hohfeld and the theory of in rem rights: An attempted mediation Christopher M. Newman; Part III. Hohfeld and Equity: 8. Hohfeld's equity J E Penner; 9. The essential nature of trusts and other equitable interests: Two and half cheers for Hohfeld Ben McFarlane; 10. General and particular jural relations Emily Sherwin; Part IV. Hohfeldian Complexities: 11. Very tight 'bundles of sticks': Hohfeld's complex jural relations Ted Sichelman; 12. Hohfeldian analysis and the separation of rights and powers John C. P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipurskyi; 13. Immunity rules John Harrison; 14. Scaling up legal relations Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith; Part V. Hohfeld and Society: 15. Hohfeldian analysis, liberalism and adjudication (some tensions) Pierre Schlag; 16. The contingent politics of legal formalism Aditi Bagchi; 17. Religious liberty & public accommodations: What would Hohfeld say? Joseph William Singer; 18. Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, on the difficulty of becoming a law professor John Henry Schlegel.

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About the Author

Shyamkrishna Balganesh is the Sol Goldman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Ted M. Sichelman is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he founded and directs the Center for Computation, Mathematics & the Law and directs the Center for Intellectual Property Law & Markets. Henry E. Smith is the Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he directs the Project on the Foundations of Private Law. Smith served as the President of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics and is the Reporter for the American Law Institute's Fourth Restatement of Property.