Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the twenty-second. Of ALIENATION by SPECIAL CUSTOM. This chapter is about how legal rituals can put some flexibility into social boundaries. Blackstone describes...
Call for Submissions: Hedgehogs and Foxes Election Haiku Contest Hedgehogs and Foxes (HaF) welcomes Haiku submissions from poets and from those who dabble, especially writers from the legal academy. As you know, a...
SUNDAY CHILD EXCHANGE Joshua A. Jones Jason plopped down on his sagging mattress. The thread-bare pile of sheets and blankets slipped free from the warped pallet. Jason’s neglected pit bull overwhelmed...
Stephanie Elsky, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, has published Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (Oxford University Press, 2020). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents....
Via Open Culture, here are the opening credits of a fictional cop show created by Quinn Martin. The star is none other than Samuel Beckett. Beckett with two “t”s would really have been something...
Ryan Mitchell, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Faculty of Law, is publishing Jean Bodin’s Law of Nations in volume 21 of Political Theology (2020). Here is the abstract. This article examines Jean...
Jessie Allen, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Twenty First. Of Alienation by Matter of Record. The common law of property doesn’t get much more arcane and insular than...
Valentina Vadi, Lancaster University, has published War and Peace – Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations (Leiden, Brill, 2020). Here is the abstract. This treatise investigates the emergence of the early...
Jessie Allen, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK THE SECOND, Chapter the twentieth, Of ALIENATION by DEED. This chapter is about words and deeds. Is this really the first time I have noticed that...
Etienne Toussaint, UDC School of Law, is publishing Of American Fragility: Public Rituals, Human Rights, and the End of Invisible Man in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Here is the abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic...