Now you see it, now you don’t
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. Chapter the seventeenth. Of GUARDIAN and WARD. This is a small chapter about a big and vexing subject. The very word “guardian” fills me with...
Law and Philosophy
Mysteries of Parenthood
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Chapter the sixteenth. Of PARENT and CHILD. This chapter is about “the most universal relation in nature.” (p. 434) My nine-year-old universal relation climbed into bed with...
A Marrying Kind
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK THE FIRST. Chapter the Fifteenth. Of HUSBAND and WIFE. This chapter about marriage begins by drawing a line: “Our law considers marriage in no other light...
Call For Papers, Special Issue: International Journal of Legal Discourse, Semiotic Perspectives on Environment, Forestry, Fishery, Hunting, and Law
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL DISCOURSE SPECIAL ISSUE – SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT, FORESTRY, FISHERY, HUNTING AND LAW Guest Editors: Dariusz GWIAZDOWICZ, Aleksandra MATULEWSKA & Anne WAGNER Environmental issues have bothered people for...
I don’t want to talk about it
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. Chapter the Fourteenth. Of MASTER and SERVANT. This chapter is about the legal concepts and rules that create and regulate the roles of...
Warriors and Avatars
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I. Chapter the thirteenth. Of the MILITARY and MARITIME STATES. This chapter is about soldiers, or, “such persons as are peculiarly appointed among the rest of...
Johnson and Koenig on Aristotle and the Ethics of Narrative @LoriDelaneyJ
Lori D. Johnson, UNLV School of Law, and Melissa Love Koenig, Marquette Law School, have published Walk the Line: Aristotle & The Ethics of Narrative as an UNLV Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper...
Totems of Our Lives
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK THE FIRST: Chapter the twelfth. Of the CIVIL STATE. This chapter’s subject is “[t]hat part of the nation which . . includes all orders of men,...
Law Makes the World
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I. Chapter the Eleventh. Of the CLERGY. Just when I was thinking that there wasn’t a single point of interest in this chapter’s dry taxonomy of...
Ties that Bind
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I. Chapter the tenth. Of the PEOPLE, whether ALIENS, DENIZENS, or NATIVES. This chapter is about the different legal statuses of residents within a governmental territory....