J don't intend to provide any background information on Black? stone, except to say that he published his treatise in England be? tween 1765 and 1769, and that aside from Chancellor Kent's Commentaries on the Law of the United States, published between 1820 and 1825, Blackstone's work is the only systematic attempt that has been made to present a theory of the whole common law system. Duncan Kennedy.1

In every era of communications technology - whether print, radio, television, or Internet - some form of government censorship follows to regulate the medium and its messages. Today we are seeing the phenomenon of 'machine speech' enhanced by the development of sophisticated artificial intelligence. Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover argue that the First Amendment must provide defenses and justifications for covering and protecting robotic expression. It is irrelevant that a robot is not human and cannot have intentions; what matters is that a human experiences robotic speech as meaningful. This is the constitutional recognition of 'intentionless free speech' at the interface of the robot and receiver. Robotica is the first book to develop the legal arguments for these purposes. Aimed at law and communication scholars, lawyers, and free speech activists, this work explores important new problems and solutions at the interface of law and technology.

The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries

Robotica: Speech Rights and Artificial Intelligence

It is argued in this paper that structural theories of local powers are inadequate as determinate explanations of urban form. This argument is developed through an interpretation of two jurisdictional disputes, one in Chicago, the other in Toronto. The legal bases of local powers are considered as are the languages and decision logic used by the courts in these two situations. At one level, the issue is one of the virtue or otherwise of the underlying political philosophy; especially liberalism. But, at another level, the issue is one of agency; the courts' capacities to fashion determinate interpretations of the proper scope of local power.

Adjudicating jurisdictional disputes in chicago and toronto: legal formalism and urban structure

History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument

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Making the kettle boil Rights talk and political mobilisation around electricity and water services in Soweto

Sir William Blackstone's hyperbolic defense of the common law rights of Englishmen to private property,1 drawn from the immutable law of nature,2 was a comfort to conservative lawyers in the early American republic as a reasoned philosophical and legal defense of property against the uncertainties of John Locke's social contract.3 The seeds of Jacksonian democracy, in which popular sovereignty went hand-in-hand with the people's self-evident right to the pursuit of happiness,4 threatened to relativize and erode the social position of the propertied class.5 In this situation American lawyers vigorously asserted absolute rights to property that could transcend the vagaries of politics. "The title of our lands," wrote Jesse Root proudly in 1798, "is free, clear and absolute, and every proprietor of land is a prince in his own domains, and lord paramount of the fee."6 In the first decades of the Republic Blackstone's Commentaries was the principal sourcebook for American lawyers and judges to learn the common law of England.7 The interpretations of Black-

The Myth of the Nomad in Property Law

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The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries

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