From David Sugarman, Professor Emeritus, Law School, Lancaster University, Senior Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, Senior Associate, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford: The International Journal of...
ICYMI: Katharine Villalobos has published The Crucible: Old Notions of Hysteria in Modern America at 5 Law Journal for Social Justice 202 (2015).
Atlas Obscura discusses the fifty-mile-square area in Yellowstone National Park, which is essentially a legal free-for-all. Brian Kalt, a professor of law at Michigan State University, pointed out in a 2005 law review essay...
Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for special issues, as it does annually. Please send your proposals to the Managing Editor by May 1st of the year, for publication the following year. However, note...
Two interesting books, newly published: Penelope Geng, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England (University of Toronto Press) and Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (OUP).
ICYMI: Zvi S. Rosen, The Twilight of the Opera Pirates: A Prehistory of the Right of Public Performance for Musical Compositions, 24 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 1157 (2007). The exclusive right...
Felipe Jiménez, USC Gould School of Law, has published Some Doubts about Folk Jurisprudence: The Case of Proximate Cause as USC CLASS Research Paper Series No. CLASS21-18 and USC Law Legal Studies Paper No....
Two extremely interesting and informative websites to bring to your attention, Newcastle Gaol and Criminal Corpses. H/T Professor Thom Giddens.
Newly published at the New Rambler Review: Lynne Greenberg’s review of Alison Chapman’s Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020).
Pencils Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book II, Chapter 32: Of Title by Testament and Administration This is the last chapter in Blackstone’s volume on property. Fittingly, it’s about what happens...
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