John Leubsdorf, Rutgers, the State University of New York, Rutgers Law School, has published Shakespeare’s Staged Trials. Here is the abstract. The trials in Shakespeare’s plays are strange. There are no lawyers or professional...
Taylor Simpson-Wood, Barry University School of Law, is publishing The Precarious Position of the Fourth Estate in Trumptopia: The Role of Popular Culture and the Law in Protecting Media Freedom in volume 49 of...
Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law, has published The Tale of Two Harts; A Schlegelian Dialectic as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-55. Here is the abstract....
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / News / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Fifteenth. Of TITLE by PURCHASE, and First by ESCHEAT. This chapter is about line drawing – and erasing. The focus is ostensibly...
Law and Linguistics / Legal Interpretation
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Neal Goldfarb is publishing The Use of Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation in volume 7 of the Annual Review of Linguistics. Here is the abstract. Over the past decade, the idea of using corpus...
Richard Martin, University of Oxford, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, has published Ethno‐National Narratives of Human Rights: The Northern Ireland Policing Board at 83 The Modern Law Review 91 (2020). Here is the abstract....
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / News / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Fourteenth. Of TITLE by DESCENT. This chapter is not about nature. You would think that family inheritance would be an ideal place...
An interesting post from Neil Wilkof at the IPKat on The broadside ballad as newspaper: When the melody of “Greensleeves” met the latest public hanging in the City of London. Mr. Wilkof writes in part:...
William P. Quigley, Loyola University, New Orleans, School of Law, has published The Continuing Significance of Race: Official Legislative Racial Discrimination in Louisiana 1861 to 1974 at 7 S.U. L. Rev. 1 (2019). Here...
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is presenting a virtual mock trial based on a legal issue arising out of the Bard’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The event takes place July 24th and 25th. The judges...
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