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Crime on Campus

Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse mysteries, isn’t the only novelist who has set a murder in Oxford. Tara Heuze rounds up another ten for us in 10 Criminal Underrated Novelists, an essay...

Castles in the Air

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Sixth.  Of  the Modern ENGLISH TENURES. Okay, I finally get it.  I get why it’s such a big deal to ‘own...

Sing in me, oh Muse!

  Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second.  Chapter the Fifth.  Of the Antient ENGLISH TENURES. This self-consciously historical chapter describes a kind of land ownership that was, as the chapter’s...

Law in the Ruins

  Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second.  Chapter the Fourth.  Of the FEODAL SYSTEM. For Blackstone it is an article of faith that the way things are can be...