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2 Feb 2017, 3:30 am by Brian Tamanaha
As Brian Bix declares in his leading Jurisprudence text, “historical jurisprudence has largely disappeared. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix Premarital agreements (also known as “antenuptial agreements” and “prenuptial agreements”) are agreements entered by spouses-to-be just before marriage. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 12:20 pm by Mark Edwin Burge
Legal philosopher and contracts scholar Brian Bix (University of Minnesota) suggests in a concise but content-packed piece entitled The Promise and Problems of Universal, General Theories of Law... [read post]
11 May 2016, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix Robert Alexy is one of the foremost contemporary legal theorists of this generation. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix Henry Maine famously claimed that societies tend to move from status to contract.1Martha Ertman has been one of a number of prominent family law scholars who have chronicled, and at appropriate occasions critiqued, the way that family law has increasingly allowed enforceable agreements to modify or supplement the status relations of marriage and parenthood. [read post]
25 May 2015, 2:22 pm by Jeremy Telman
Law School Interactive, which provides podcasts for various purposes relating to law school, has a new podcast up featuring Frank Snyder (pictured left), the Zeus from whose head this blog sprung, and two friends of the blog, Brian Bix and... [read post]
25 May 2015, 8:22 am by Myanna Dellinger
Law School Interactive, which provides podcasts for various purposes relating to law school, has a new podcast up featuring Frank Snyder (pictured), the Zeus from whose head this blog sprung, and two friends of the blog, Brian Bix and Steven... [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix Most people who use the terms at all treat “jurisprudence” and “legal philosophy” as interchangeable terms. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix In “Misused Concepts and Misguided Questions,” Jim Dwyer is working within an important tradition of thinkers (going back at least to George Orwell’s famous essay, “Politics and the English Language”) who correct the sloppy arguments, rhetoric, and terminology the rest of us make, to bring us collectively towards clearer moral and policy arguments. [read post]
5 May 2014, 3:25 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix In legal philosophy, as in many scholarly areas, there is a “good and original” problem: the work that is very good tends not to be particularly original (usually being rather a careful modification of existing ideas), and the work is truly original tends not be very good at all. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 6:21 am by Kprofs2013
I have been thinking a lot about Peggy Radin's book Boilerplate and her arguments about how boilerplate contacts threaten a democratic degradation (discussed elsewhere on the blog by Brian Bix, with Peggy Radin responding here, and by David Horton) because... [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix There are well-known problems with child support, the court-ordered financial obligations that non-custodial parents—whether divorced or separated from the other parent, or never married to that parent—owe to custodial parents for the care of the children. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 5:42 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix At the heart of analytical legal philosophy are theories about the nature of law. [read post]