Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld lived from 1879 to 1918, an American jurist and professor at Yale Law School whose short career produced one of the most influential contributions to analytical jurisprudence. In two journal articles collected as Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning (1913 and 1917), he decomposed the loose concept of a legal right into eight fundamental, paired legal relations, rights and duties, privileges and no-rights, powers and liabilities, immunities and disabilities, a scheme still taught as the Hohfeldian analysis and widely used to clarify legal reasoning about entitlements.
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