ICYMI: The Law In Shakespeare (Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, eds., 2005). Here’s a description of the book from the publisher’s website. Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare’s plays to...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Fifth. Of the Antient ENGLISH TENURES. This self-consciously historical chapter describes a kind of land ownership that was, as the chapter’s...
Law Text Culture Volume 25 (2021) – CALL FOR PROPOSALS – GUEST EDITOR/S (extended DEADLINE) NOW Due 31 May 2019 (sic) The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2021...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Fourth. Of the FEODAL SYSTEM. For Blackstone it is an article of faith that the way things are can be...
Giacomo Calorio, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Turin, and Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, have published Inside a frame, behind a glass. A preliminary inquiry on law...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Third. Of Incorporeal Hereditaments. Blackstone isn’t famous for making something out of nothing, but for giving a new twist to...
John Q. Barrett, St. John’s University School of Law, is publishing Attribution Time: Cal Tinney’s 1937 Quip, “A Switch in Time’ll Save Nine” in the Oklahoma Law Review. Here is the abstract. In the...
Sophie Gilbert lists twenty crime shows that you might not have seen and that are worthy of attention during this enforced stay-at-home period. Among her suggestions are more well-known shows such as Luther, the...
Elizabeth Bales Frank writes about introducing poetry to attorneys at her law firm in her essay My Life as Poet Laureate (Of a Law Firm). She notes that convincing her colleagues of the value of...
Filippo Annunziata, Luigi Bocconi University, and Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University (Japan), have published Opera and Law: Critical Notes in Law & Literature (February 2020). Here is the abstract. This...
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