Book 1. Chapter the Eighth. Of the KING’S REVENUE. Well, I promise I will never again complain about short chapters. This one, enumerating the various sources of government funding for merry old England circa 1760,...
BOOK THE FIRST. Chapter the seventh. Of the KING’S PREROGATIVE. Blackstone Weekly is sorry for the long hiatus between entries. Given that this section of the Commentaries is all about the legal limits on executive power,...
Book the First. Chapter the sixth. Of the KING’s DUTIES. Blackstone Weekly is growing weary of these little bitty chapters. This one is only about three pages long. Still, there’s always something to chew...
A link to Law, Technology, and Humans, edited by Kieran Tranter of the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. LTH is an online, open access publication devoted to an understanding of law and the technological...
Call for Papers Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) Special Edition on Conflict and Violence in Plato’s Philosophy Edited by Joan-Antoine Mallet (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) We invite contributions dealing with all facets...
Anya Bernstein, SUNY Buffalo Law School, has published Legal Interpretation and the Half-Empirical Attitude. Here is the abstract. Legal writers have recently turned to corpus linguistics for help interpreting legal texts. Corpus linguistics —...
From The Hollywood Reporter: a look at some new movies that feature dynamic lawyers as role models for the profession, and the actors who play them. In the spotlight: Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, and...
BOOK THE FIRST. Chapter the fifth. Of the COUNCILS belonging to the KING. This chapter describes the four different consular bodies that advise the King of England: parliament, the peers of the realm, the...
BOOK the First. Chapter the Fourth. Of the KING’s Royal FAMILY. This short chapter is mostly about queens. Blackstone explains that there are three kinds. Most of the chapter is about the queen consort — the wife...
Book the First. Of the RIGHTS of PERSONS. Chapter the Third. Of the King, and his Title. In this chapter you really see how Blackstone both inspired and pissed off the American founders. It’s a hymn...