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The Politics of Private Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective

A conservative abuse of rights reasoning or “Hohfeldian error”?

Reading(s): Gregory & Kalven, The House of Lords Trilogy Sherman Act, Clayton Act, Taft-Hartley Act Steve Wagner, How Did the Taft-Hartley Act Come About? W.N. Hohfeld, Some Fundamental Concepts as Used in Judicial Reasoning, 23 Yale L.J. 16 (1913) Joseph William Singer, The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld, 1982 Wis. L. Rev. 975, p.986-989, p. 993-994 [Hohfeld’s system; restatement of the contradiction]