Stramignoni on Images of Law
Igor Stramignoni, London School of Economics, Law Department, has published Images of Law. Here is the abstract. In this essay, I offer some initial thoughts about what may be roughly called a visual history of law...
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I. Chapter the eighteenth. Of CORPORATIONS. This chapter is about death — and the attempt to outlaw it. Blackstone puts it right out there in his first...
Some New Legal Dramas From Around the World, Now Streaming on Netflix @netflix
Are you looking for some new legal dramas to check out during the season of COVID-19? Netflix is streaming the Italian series The Trial (Il Proceso), starring Vittoria Puccini as prosecutor Elena Guerra, faced...
Martinez on Law, Race, and the Epistemology of Ignorance @SMULawSchool
George A. Martinez, Southern Methodist University School of Law, has published Law, Race, and the Epistemology of Ignorance at 17 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 507 (2020). Here is the abstract. Philosophers and...
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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. Chapter the seventeenth. Of GUARDIAN and WARD. This is a small chapter about a big and vexing subject. The very word “guardian” fills me with...
Mysteries of Parenthood
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Chapter the sixteenth. Of PARENT and CHILD. This chapter is about “the most universal relation in nature.” (p. 434) My nine-year-old universal relation climbed into bed with...
ICYMI: Grossman, The Art of Alibi (JHU Press, 2002) @JHUPress
ICYMI: Jonathan H. Grossman, Department of England, UCLA published The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2002. Here’s a description of the book’s contents from...
ICYMI: Shniderman on Juror Perceptions in the Law & Order Era @adam_shniderman
ICYMI: Adam B. Shniderman, University of Michigan Law School, has published Ripped from the Headlines: Juror Perceptions in the Law & Order Era at 38 Law & Psychology Review 97 (2014). Here is the...
A Marrying Kind
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK THE FIRST. Chapter the Fifteenth. Of HUSBAND and WIFE. This chapter about marriage begins by drawing a line: “Our law considers marriage in no other light...
Call For Papers, Special Issue: International Journal of Legal Discourse, Semiotic Perspectives on Environment, Forestry, Fishery, Hunting, and Law
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL DISCOURSE SPECIAL ISSUE – SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT, FORESTRY, FISHERY, HUNTING AND LAW Guest Editors: Dariusz GWIAZDOWICZ, Aleksandra MATULEWSKA & Anne WAGNER Environmental issues have bothered people for...