Giacomo Calorio, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Turin, and Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, have published Inside a frame, behind a glass. A preliminary inquiry on law...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Third. Of Incorporeal Hereditaments. Blackstone isn’t famous for making something out of nothing, but for giving a new twist to...
John Q. Barrett, St. John’s University School of Law, is publishing Attribution Time: Cal Tinney’s 1937 Quip, “A Switch in Time’ll Save Nine” in the Oklahoma Law Review. Here is the abstract. In the...
Sophie Gilbert lists twenty crime shows that you might not have seen and that are worthy of attention during this enforced stay-at-home period. Among her suggestions are more well-known shows such as Luther, the...
Elizabeth Bales Frank writes about introducing poetry to attorneys at her law firm in her essay My Life as Poet Laureate (Of a Law Firm). She notes that convincing her colleagues of the value of...
Filippo Annunziata, Luigi Bocconi University, and Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University (Japan), have published Opera and Law: Critical Notes in Law & Literature (February 2020). Here is the abstract. This...
Thomas Poole discusses the frontispiece of Leviathan‘s first edition for the London Review of Books. He focuses on the tiny images of two physicians in the illustration. Amid the rest of the much more familiar...
Now available! A special issue of the Georgia State University Law Review, devoted to law and linguistics! See the table of contents here. All articles are available in PDF format. Wonderful to see a...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book II. Chapter the second. Of REAL PROPERTY; and, first, of CORPOREAL HEREDITAMENTS. This chapter is about things that last. Blackstone’s property law is obsessed with...
Jurisprudence / Law and Philosophy / William Blackstone
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Blackstone Weekly needs to pause to mark the moment. The last post of 2010 (on corporations, death and the Second Circuit’s provocative Kiobel decision) completed Volume I...
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