Adam MacLeod

St. Mary's University Law School

Professor of Law

One Camino Santa Maria St

San Antonio, TX 78228

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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“  I think and write about the specification of private rights, especially in real, personal, and intellectual property law. I am particularly interested in the ways in which law constitutes property rights by specifying their correlative duties. In other words, we can best understand rights by understanding our personal obligations.  ”

Scholarly Papers (27)

1.

The First Amendment, Discrimination, and Public Accommodations at Common Law

Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 112
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2024
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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public accommodations, First Amendment, property, civil rights, discrimination, common law

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Of Brutal Murder and Transcendental Sovereignty: The Meaning of Vested Private Rights

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 41, 2017
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 16 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2018
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 138 (402,107)
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rights, private rights, vested rights, retrospective legislation, retroactive legislation, positivism, legal realism, perfectionism, jurisprudence

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Metaphysical Right and Practical Obligations

University of Memphis Law Review, Vol. 48, 2017
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Apr 2018
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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property, rights, duties, wrongs, rights theory, property theory

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The (Contingent) Value of Autonomy and the Reflexivity of (Some) Basic Goods

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Jan 2010
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 130 (421,247)
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jurisprudence, legal theory, autonomy, basic goods, reflexivity, assisted suicide

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Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015): Introduction

Property and Practical Reason, Cambridge University Press, April 2015
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Aug 2016
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 128 (426,217)

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property, property theory, property rights, rights, abuse of rights, natural law, jurisprudence, pluralism, perfectionism, private law, private ordering, dominion, mediated dominion, Finnis, Raz, Waldron, Penner

6.

Public Rights After Oil States Energy

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 95, 2019
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 12 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2019
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 120 (447,636)
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public rights, private rights, legal rights, common law, patents, administrative law, jurisprudence

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Patent Infringement As Trespass

Patent Infringement as Trespass, 69 Ala. L. Rev. 723 (2018)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2018
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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patents, patent infringement, trespass, intellectual property, property, property theory, intellectual property theory, property wrongs, eBay v. MercExchange, Hohfeld, jurisprudence

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A Gift Worth Dying For?: Debating the Volitional Nature of Suicide in the Law of Personal Property

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 Jan 2010
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 113 (468,427)
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personal property, gifts causa mortis, suicide, volition

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The Mystery of Life in the Laboratory of Democracy: Personal Autonomy in State Law

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2011
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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jurisprudence, legal theory, personal autonomy, basic goods, property, state law, Raz, Dworkin, Finnis, George

10.

Cyber Trespass and Property Concepts

10 IP Theory 4 (2021), https://iptheory.indiana.edu/cyber-trespass-and-property-concepts/
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Jul 2021
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 81 (582,981)

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cyber, property, property concepts, Internet, data access, practical reason

11.

Group Ownership and the Ends of Legal Fictions

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Jan 2022
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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jurisprudence, private law, private law theory, trusts, property, corporations, Frederic Maitland, Michae Bratman

12.

Tempering Civil Rights Conflicts: Common Law for the Moral Marketplace

2016 Michigan State Law Review 643
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 16 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2017
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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civil rights, conscience, equality, sexual identity, dignity, common law, markets, rights, perfectionism, mediated dominion

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A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 08 Jan 2010
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 78 (595,817)
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RLUIPA, religion, land use, basic goods, strict scrutiny

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The Possibility of Private Rights and Duties

6 Faulkner Law Review 65 (2014) (invited)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Jul 2016
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 76 (604,575)

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rights, duties, wrongs, Holmes, legal realism, perfectionism, jurisprudence, property theory

15.

Foundations of the Right of Charitable Uses

Mississippi Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 09 Apr 2024
Adam MacLeod and Mark David Hall
St. Mary's University Law School and Regent University
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property, uses, charity, charitable uses, jurisprudence, legal history, fundamental rights

16.

Rights, Privileges, and the Future of Marriage Law

28 Regent University Law Review 71 (2015) (invited)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jul 2016
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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marriage equality, fundamental rights, children's rights, privileges, common law constitutionalism, natural law, positive law

17.

Brief of Amicus Curiae Adam J. MacLeod in Support of Petitioner, No. CV-18-0176-PR, Arizona Supreme Court

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Jan 2019
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 47 (760,406)
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property rights, non-discrimination, liberty, equality, common law, public accommodations

18.

Empathy, Forgiveness, and the Morally Responsible Person in Legal Institutions

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 03 Jun 2010
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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Empathy, Mortgages, Lending, Practical Reasonableness, Suspect Classification, Equal Protection, Moral Responsibility, Property Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

19.

Vested Patents and Equal Justice

Catholic University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Jul 2022
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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patents, vested rights, property rights, rights theory, justice, equal justice, jurisprudence

20.

Strategic and Tactical Totalization in the Totalitarian Epoch

5 British Journal of American Legal Studies 57 (2016)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Jul 2016
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 41 (802,268)
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totalitarianism, totalitarian jurisprudence, socialist jurisprudence, private law, private ordering, constitutional law, jurisprudence, segregation, equality, rights, civil rights, practical reason, pluralism

21.

The New States' Rights

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 16 May 2019
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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fundamental rights, positive rights, marriage, children's rights, vested rights, natural rights

22.

Identifying Values in Land Use Regulation

Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 101, No. 55, 2012
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Jul 2016
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 33 (865,610)

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land use, due process, property, property rights, police powers, judicial review, perfectionism, property theory

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Critical Theories, Justice, And the Rule of Law

Texas A&M Journal of Law & Civil Governance, volume 1(forthcoming)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Jul 2024
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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patents, infringement, eminent domain, vested rights, America Invents Act, powers, immunities, sovereign immunity

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Universities as Constitutional Lawmakers (And Other Hidden Actors in Our Constitutional Orders)

17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online 1 (2014)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 16 Jul 2016
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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constitutions, constitutional rights, private ordering, intermediary institutions, associational liberty, self-constitution

26.

Charter Parties in an Era of Change

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 May 2024
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
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charter parties, bailments, private carriage, Passenger Vessel Safety Act, Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, space law, admiralty law, maritime law, jurisprudence

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Bridging the Gaps in Property Theory

77 Modern Law Review 1009 (2014). The definitive version is available at www.wileyonlinelibrary.com.
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Adam MacLeod
St. Mary's University Law School
Downloads 13 (1,065,728)
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property, property rights, property theory, jurisprudence