Thomas Poole discusses the frontispiece of Leviathan‘s first edition for the London Review of Books. He focuses on the tiny images of two physicians in the illustration. Amid the rest of the much more familiar...
Now available! A special issue of the Georgia State University Law Review, devoted to law and linguistics! See the table of contents here. All articles are available in PDF format. Wonderful to see a...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book II. Chapter the second. Of REAL PROPERTY; and, first, of CORPOREAL HEREDITAMENTS. This chapter is about things that last. Blackstone’s property law is obsessed with...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Blackstone Weekly needs to pause to mark the moment. The last post of 2010 (on corporations, death and the Second Circuit’s provocative Kiobel decision) completed Volume I...
Igor Stramignoni, London School of Economics, Law Department, has published Images of Law. Here is the abstract. In this essay, I offer some initial thoughts about what may be roughly called a visual history of law...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I. Chapter the eighteenth. Of CORPORATIONS. This chapter is about death — and the attempt to outlaw it. Blackstone puts it right out there in his first...
Are you looking for some new legal dramas to check out during the season of COVID-19? Netflix is streaming the Italian series The Trial (Il Proceso), starring Vittoria Puccini as prosecutor Elena Guerra, faced...
George A. Martinez, Southern Methodist University School of Law, has published Law, Race, and the Epistemology of Ignorance at 17 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 507 (2020). Here is the abstract. Philosophers and...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. Chapter the seventeenth. Of GUARDIAN and WARD. This is a small chapter about a big and vexing subject. The very word “guardian” fills me with...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Chapter the sixteenth. Of PARENT and CHILD. This chapter is about “the most universal relation in nature.” (p. 434) My nine-year-old universal relation climbed into bed with...
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