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by · Published December 16, 2019 · Last modified December 17, 2019
If your reading tastes run to the odd, the eccentric, the Gothic, the off-beat (in literature or history), the pop culture-ish, or the feline, check out Undine’s blog Strange Company. Among her recent psots,...
Newly available: Democracy in America, an interactive digital edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic text, prepared and edited by Alan Keely, Associate Director for Collection Services, Wake Forest Law Library. We have some Tocqueville...
Newly published: A Cultural History of Law (Gary Watt, ed., Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) (The Cultural Histories Series). Six volumes. How have legal ideas and institutions affected Western culture? And how has the law itself been...
Law and Art / Law and Culture / Law and History / Law and Society / Law and Visual Culture
by · Published June 12, 2019 · Last modified September 24, 2020
Lucy A. Jewel , University of Tennessee College of Law, and Mary Campbell are publishing Death in the Shadows in Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2019). Here is the abstract. This paper is...
Law and Emotions / Law and History / Legal History / William Blackstone
by · Published June 7, 2019 · Last modified September 23, 2020
Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. William Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into...
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