Book the First. Of the RIGHTS of PERSONS. Chapter the Third. Of the King, and his Title. In this chapter you really see how Blackstone both inspired and pissed off the American founders. It’s a hymn...
Book the First. The RIGHTS of PERSONS. Chapter the Second. Of the Parliament In this chapter, Blackstone explains (p. 142) that for the rest of Book I he intends to discuss “the rights and duties...
Book the First. Chapter the First. Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals. As I noted in my Christmas post last week, this chapter is where Blackstone identifies “private property” as one of the fundamental values of...
Book the First. Chapter the Second. Of the Parliament BlackStoneWeekly was in the midst of analyzing this chapter when, watching Barack Obama’s inauguration, my attention was drawn to a theme that runs through all four volumes...
Book the first. Of the RIGHTS of PERSONS. Chapter the first. Of the absolute RIGHTS of INDIVIDUALS. Black Stone Weekly is taking this week off to celebrate the holidays. Just one quick note first....
Introduction. Section the Second. Of the NATURE of LAWS in General. In this section, Blackstone gives his famous definition of law: “a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme...
Richard Ashby Wilson, University of Connecticut School of Law, has published The Digital Ethnography of Law: Studying Online Hate Speech Online and Offline, at 3 Journal of Legal Anthropology 1 (October 2019). Here is...
David Barnett notes that we are now living in the month and year of Blade Runner‘s fictional “now,” and asks how much of it is real. In an article for BBC Culture, he writes in...
Newly published: Katherine Isobel Baxter, Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature, and the Humanities). Examines representations of the law in colonial and...
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS University of Southampton, Friday, July 3, 2020 Theme: Law, the Senses and Beyond This second annual Law and Humanities roundtable invites original paper presentations on the relationship between law and the...