A Moveable Feast
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the twenty-fourth. Of Things Personal. Property is comedy in the Commentaries: it always ends well. But along the way there are problems and...
Call For Papers: American Comparative Literature Association Meeting 2021–Crime Fiction, Global Mapping and Grand Narratives
Call for papers American Comparative Literature Association meeting 2021 Fully virtual, 8-11 April 2021 Are you interested in participating in our seminar? Crime Fiction, Global Mapping and Grand Narratives This seminar examines the capacities...
ICYMI: Green on Jurisprudence For Foxes
ICYMI: Leslie Green, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law; Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, has published Jurisprudence for Foxes as Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22/2012. Here is the abstract. This paper contests...
Born On This Day: Lawyer and Poet Wallace Stevens
Born OTD: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Mr. Stevens studied literature at Harvard and also pursued earned a law degree from the New York School of Law in 1904 and practiced law for a while, then...
The Origins and Meaning of the Period Emoji @Totorointhetree @carmennbarlow @FeministLawPrfs
In “Battling Trolls, Goblins and Structural Sexism,” a guest post at Feminist Law Professors, Carmen Barlow and Lucy Russell, the creators of the “period emoji,” explain how they created it and shepherded it through...
Jiménez on Legal Principles, Law, and Tradition @fjimenez_c
Felipe Jiménez, USC Gould School of Law, has published Legal Principles, Law, and Tradition. Here is the abstract. Legal reasoning and legal discourse take place within historical traditions that develop over time. Moreover, law...
Hsu on Anti-Science Politics @FSUCollegeofLaw
Shi-Ling Hsu, Florida State University College of Law, has published Anti-Science Politics. Here is the abstract. Political attacks against scientists and scientific research are nothing new, though the Trump Administration appears to have increased...
What Could That Be For?
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Twenty-Third: Of Alienation by Devise The push for coherence is irresistible, necessary for understanding, and doomed to produce illusory meanings. Here’s...
Balganesh and Zhang on Legal Internalism of Modern Histories of Copyright @ZhangTaisu
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School, are publishing Legal Internalism in Modern Histories of Copyright in volume 134 of the Harvard Law Review. Here is the abstract....
Fountaine on Complicity in the Perversion of Justice: The Role of Lawyers in Eroding the Rule of Law in the Third Reich @StMarysLJ
Cynthia L. Fountaine, Southern Illinois University School of Law, has published Complicity in the Perversion of Justice: The Role of Lawyers in Eroding the Rule of Law in the Third Reich at 10 St....