In Praise of Artifice
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Eleventh. Of Estates in Possession, Remainder and Reversion. This chapter is about a marginal area of property...
Molly Odintz on Policing in Crime Fiction @CrimeReads @mollsotov89
At CrimeReads, Molly Odintz discusses policing in crime fiction, and the ways in which it can reflect the realities that we see daily in our communities and our society. She writes in part, [T]he...
Almog on From the Odyssey Onwards: Law’s Long and Winding Road
Shulamit Almog, Professor of Law at Haifa University and Co-Director of the Law, Gender and Policy Center, has published From the Odyssey Onwards: Law’s Long and Winding Road at 32 Law & Literature 47...
Ioannou on Law Reform, Jurisprudential Concerns and Benign Aspects of the Law in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
Maria Ioannou has published “[O]ur legal fictions”: Law Reform, Jurisprudential Concerns and Benign Aspects of the Law in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House at 37 Dickens Quarterly 131 (June 2020). Here is a link to...
Mendlow on Thoughts, Crimes, and Thought Crimes @UMichLaw
Gabriel Mendlow, University of Michigan Law School; University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy, is publishing Thoughts, Crimes, and Thought Crimes in volume 118 of the Michigan Law Review (2020). Here is the abstract. Thought...
Our Bodies, Our Castles, Our Countries, Ourselves
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Tenth. Of Estates, upon Condition. This chapter is haunted. The estates Blackstone describes here have an almost...
ICYMI: Maroney on Law and Emotion: A Proposed Taxonomy of an Emerging Field @profesoratm
ICYMI: Terry A. Maroney, Vanderbilt University Law School, has published Law and Emotion: A Proposed Taxonomy of an Emerging Field at 30 Law and Human Behavior 119 (2006). Here is the abstract. Many scholars...
Jones on Judicial Racism and Judicial Antiracism: Retelling the Dred Scott Story @AUWCL
DeVaughn Jones, American University College of Law, has published Judicial Racism and Judicial Antiracism: Retelling the Dred Scott Story. Here is the abstract. This Essay retells the Dred Scott story as a set of...
SLSA: List of Conferences, Events, and Seminars @SLSA_UK
From the Socio-Legal Studies Association: a list of upcoming conferences, events, and seminars. Last updated May 29, 2020.
Property, Liberty, Identity
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Ninth. Of Estates, Less than Freehold. This chapter is about how to give somebody property without giving him...