Patrick Murphree is publishing Moreau, Dumas, and the Authority to Interpret the French Civil Code in the Tulane Journal of International & Comparative Law. Here is the abstract. This article explores a nineteenth-century legal...
CFP: Judicial Rhetoric: A Symposium April 5, 2024 University of Virginia School of Law In collaboration with Case Western Reserve University Judicial writing is a genre in flux. While court opinions remain both potent...
Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln, IV, University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, has published A Homeric Analysis of the US Constitution. Here is the abstract. This article offers an interpretation of the United States’ structure...
Joanna L. Grossman, Southern Methodist University School of Law, has published Thoroughly Modern Motherhood at 74 SMU Law Review 277 (2021). Here is the abstract. As explored in Lawrence Friedman’s introductory essay in this...
Melissa J. Ganz, Marquette University Department of English, has published ‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent at 56 Eighteenth-Century Studies 53 (Fall 2022). Here is the abstract. Criminal...
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée (Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert Levine, eds., Fordham University Press, 2022). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of...
Alice Diver, QUB School of Law, and Jules Bradshaw, Liverpool John Moores University Faculty of Law, have published The Grapes of Wrath: An artful jurisprudence? at 18 Steinbeck Review 162 (2021). Here is the...
Jennifer L. Behrens, Duke University School of Law Law Library, has published Timeline of ‘Terror’: Provenance of the ‘Blue John Gap’ Autograph Manuscript in Terror of Blue John Gap Project (Margie Deck & Nancy...
ROBERT E. RAINS LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET CRIMES INTRODUCTION Lady Audley’s Secret, a Victorian “sensation novel,” was published in England in 1862 and made its author, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon, a wealthy woman. Although...
Alice Diver, Queens University Belfast, has published ‘Monstrous Othering’: The Gothic Nature of Origin-Tracing in Law and Literature at 9 Adoption and Culture 247 (2021). Here is the abstract. Much Gothic literature touches upon...
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