A Marrying Kind

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK THE FIRST.  Chapter the Fifteenth.  Of HUSBAND and WIFE. This chapter about marriage begins by drawing a line: “Our law considers marriage in no other light...

Call For Papers, Special Issue: International Journal of Legal Discourse, Semiotic Perspectives on Environment, Forestry, Fishery, Hunting, and Law

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL DISCOURSE SPECIAL ISSUE – SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT, FORESTRY, FISHERY, HUNTING AND LAW   Guest Editors: Dariusz GWIAZDOWICZ, Aleksandra MATULEWSKA & Anne WAGNER   Environmental issues have bothered people for...

Warriors and Avatars

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I.  Chapter the thirteenth.  Of the MILITARY and MARITIME STATES. This chapter is about soldiers, or, “such persons as are peculiarly appointed among the rest of...

Barbara Hughes-Moore, Nicole Mansfield Wright’s Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) (Book Review) @Barbara_Elin @JHUPress

Book Review: Nicole Mansfield Wright, Defending Privilege Barbara Hughes-Moore   In Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel, Nicole Mansfield Wright impressively critiques the ways in which conservative writers have...