The Salem Witch Trials: A New Web Resource @LyoLouisJacques @dangelolawlib @UChicagoLaw
Check out Lyonette Louis-Jacques beautiful legal resources site on The Salem Witch Trials here. It includes links to other materials and to art about the trials.
Call For Papers: University of Lucerne: In the Thick of Images: Law, History, and the Visual
From Steven Howe, University of Lucerne: In the Thick of Images: Law, History, and the Visual Monday 10 & Tuesday 11 June 2024 University of Lucerne CALL FOR PAPERS “Suppose that whatever we’ve done, felt,...
Knauer on Big Lies, Drag Shows, and Legal Fictions @TempleLaw
Nancy J. Knauer, Temple University School of Law, has published Big Lies, Drag Shows, and Legal Fictions. Here is the abstract. Today, the United States faces a relentless offensive of lies and falsehoods, as...
Call For Proposals: ACA/PCA National Conference, Chicago, March 27-30, 2024
Just received: From Patricia Peknik, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Berklee College of Music: Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers for ACA/PCA National Conference in Chicago – March 27-30, 2024 We invite papers...
Medieval Murder Maps: An Extremely Interesting Website @MediMurderMaps
The content we’re here for: Medieval Murder Maps. From its website: The interactive Medieval Murder Maps give unique insight into violence, and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford. Discover the murders, sudden...
Daniel on Cooptation of the Carnack Amendment by the Railroads, 1906-1917: A Study In Associational Lawyering @VinsonandElkins
Josiah M. Daniel, III, Vinson & Elkins, LLP, and the University of Texas, Austin, Department of History, is publishing Cooptation of the Carmack Amendment by the Railroads, 1906-1917: A Study in Associational Lawyering in...
Murphree on Moreau, Dumas, and the Authority to Interpret the French Civil Code
Patrick Murphree is publishing Moreau, Dumas, and the Authority to Interpret the French Civil Code in the Tulane Journal of International & Comparative Law. Here is the abstract. This article explores a nineteenth-century legal...
Updated: Hershovitz and Schaus on Dworkin in His Best Light @shershovitz @UMichLaw @UMPhilosophy
Scott Hershovitz and Steven Schaus, both of the University of Michigan Law School, have published Dworkin in His Best Light. Here is the abstract. In Justice for Hedgehogs, Ronald Dworkin suggested that we set...
Cavedon on Las Casas’s Use of Legal Interpretive Rules at Valladolid @matt_cavedon @LawandReligion
Matthew Cavedon, Emory University, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, has published Las Casas’s Use of Legal Interpretive Rules at Valladolid. Here is the abstract. Who was Bartolomé de Las Casas as...
Ford on Preambles Before the Preamble: Rediscovering the Preamble’s Role in Constitutional Interpretation @uiclaw
Stuart Ford, University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Law, has published Preambles Before the Preamble: Rediscovering the Preamble’s Role in Constitutional Interpretation. Here is the abstract. This Article explores how the Preamble to the...