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need to formulate a dilemma, something like:
On one hand, Law must protect property rights because it ( useful function of property in society, e.g. competition and efficient use of capital);
on the other hand, Law should not protect property rights because this leads to re-enforcement of uneven rights distribution within the society ( i.e. people's rights are equal as long as they have roughly equal amounts of property).


also consider
- property as a means of sustenance ( see the declaration of rights of man and citizen);
- creation, exchange, and accumulation of property(-ies).
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Legal Studies 103 Theories of Law and Society
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good.
2. The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
3. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.
4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.
5. Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society. Nothing may be prevented which is not forbidden by law, and no one may be forced to do anything not provided for by law.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen


-- In the first lecture the professor Lieberman says that Law creates an environment in which people can exercise their liberties. The notion of the environment is very useful here because it directs our attention to limitations to which an individual has to adapt his/her behaviour. One caviat, though. Law only provides blueprints for the environment. The actual environment creation task resides with law enforcement bodies.
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Интересная статья о деле ЮКОСа: Забыть Ходорковского.

Похоже, что в эту мясорубку теперь и PriceWaterhouseCooper затягивает.

"Курве шемелихе", как говорила моя бабушка.


p.s. все эти истории очень напоминают события средневековой Англии: заговоры, аресты, передел имущества опальных лордов. причем, сравнение здесь не поверхностное, а реальное - политическое устройство России сегодня структурно совпадает с тем, что было в западной европе пятьсот лет тому назад. в стране нет гражданских и религиозных институтов способных противостоять власти. в результате получается социальный сюрреализм: современная технология и экономика в сочетании с архаическим способом правления. никакому смиту и рикардо такое и не снилось. жизнь идет по Сорокину настолько, что даже утрировать ничего не приходится.
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And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the impulse of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. ( acceptance and transition to a different set of problems.)

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. (the same blessing as in Gen. 1.28, despite the "evil from his youth.")

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. ( no longer need to subdue the earth, as in Gen 28. Noah and his family has gotten everything Adam & his wife had earlier, plus, it seems so, the right to eat meat(?). but here comes a new limitation:)

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with its life, which is its blood, you shall not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheds man's blood by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

the new limitations apply to blood itself (why?) and retaliation rules - cf the Qayin case

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