Professor Amardeep Singh developed this open-access reader and guide to the poetry of African-American women with the assistance of one of his students, Sarah Thompson. Here’s the link to the work. Sections include The...
Predrag Dojcinovic, University of Connecticut, Human Rights Institute; International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1998-2017), is publishing The Forensification of Propaganda in Epic Poetry and Serb Leadership Cases at the ICTY in N....
Torts and contracts bind Lawyers argue, judge decides Justice is the aim. Criminal case waits Guilty or innocent, fair trial Justice must be served Courtroom drama unfolds Lawyers fight for right and wrong...
Some law poetry for a Tuesday, from the website LawPoetry. Poet Austin D. Blessing (MSU Law 2020) took the Louisiana Supreme Court case of State v. Demesme, 228 So. 3d 1206 (La. 2017) as inspiration....
From JSTOR Daily, Reconciling With Violence Through Poetry, by Morgan Godvin. The essay begins, “A Prisoner’s Poem” ran in a 1995 issue of The Angolite, out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary commonly known as Angola. Angola...
William Cowper (1731-1800) The Cause Won Two neighbours furiously dispute; A field–the subject of the suit. Trivial the spot, yet such the rage With which the combatants engage, ‘Twere hard to tell who covets most...
The Lawyers Know Too Much Carl Sandburg 1878-1967 THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much. They are chums of the books of the old John Marshall. They know it all, what a dead hand wrote,...
Look at this fascinating interactive visual poetry exhibit, featured in the ABA Journal here. Harbani Kaur Ahuja, an artist/attorney who is Legislative Counsel for the New York City Council, created it as part of...
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Alexandra J. Roberts Myriad was first to find the gene’s location, reserve its knowledge, tie up women and their certain mutations. But isolation creates precisely nothing...
Forthcoming from Oxford University Press: Fatemeh Shams, University of Pennsylvania, A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (2021) (Oxford Oriental Monographs). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the...
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