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78 Law & Contemp. Probs. 185 (2015)
How to Do Things with Hohfeld

handle is hein.journals/lcp78 and id is 197 raw text is: HOW TO DO THINGS WITH HOHFELD PIERRE SCHLAG* I. INTRODUCTION ............................................ ...... 186 II. SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. ........................ ......187 A. Legal Conceptions as Relations of Form .............. ..... 188 B. The Strands of Hohfeldian Thought ................. ..... 190 C. The Practicality of the Hohfeld's Approach ................. 191 III. ERRORS OF TRANSPOSITION ................................ ..... 192 A. Of Ambiguity, Slippage, and Blending .............. ...... 192 B. The Economic Import of Errors of Transposition .......... ........ 198 C. The Political Import of Errors of Transposition...... ........ 199 IV. HOHFELD'S FUNDAMENTAL LEGAL RELATIONS .................... 200 V. ABUSE OF DEDUCTION-DERIVING RIGHTS FROM PRIVILEGES............... 204 A. Missing the Excluded Middle-Eclipsing the Privilege-No Right Relation ................................... ..... 206 B. Conceptual Abuse as Distorting Moral, Policy, and Political Argument ....................................... 207 C. Distinguishing Injurious Interference in the Nonlegal and the Legal Senses ..................................... 207 D. Errors of Asymmetry ........................... ..... 208 E. The Economic Import of Distinguishing Between Rights and Privileges .................................. ...... 210 F. The Political Import of Distinguishing Between Rights and Privileges ........................................ 211 VI. THE RECOGNITION OF PRIVILEGE-NO RIGHT AS A REAL LEGAL RELATION ....................................................... 212 A. The Economic Import of Treating Privilege-No Right as a Real Legal Relation ............................ .......... 212 1. Cooperative-Adverse Relations ................. ..... 213 2. Competitive Relations......... .............. ..... 214 3. Third-Party Effects ........................ ............215 B. The Political Import of Treating Privilege-No Right as a Real Legal Relation .................................... 215 VII. THE POLITICS OF HOHFELD'S PLATFORM .................... ..... 216 VIII. DECOMPOSITION AND RECOMPOSITION ..................... 217 A. Legal Analysis: The Virtues of Formal Atomism .......... ........ 218 B. The Economic Import of Decomposition .......... ........ 220 C. The Political Import of Decomposition............ .......... 221 IX. JURAL COMPOSITES AND THE BUNDLE OF RELATIONS.............................. 222

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