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Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. Chapter the Fourteenth. Of MASTER and SERVANT. This chapter is about the legal concepts and rules that create and regulate the roles of...
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Warriors and Avatars
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I. Chapter the thirteenth. Of the MILITARY and MARITIME STATES. This chapter is about soldiers, or, “such persons as are peculiarly appointed among the rest of...
Sunstein on The Meaning of Masks @CassSunstein @Harvard_Law
Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School, is publishing The Meaning of Masks in the Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy. Here is the abstract. Many incentives are monetary, and when private or public institutions...
Keeping Busy During COVID-19: Ted Boutrous on Litigating, Watching Movies, and Reading Poetry @TheNLJ
Attorney Ted Boutrous talks about his current cases, and using movies and reading poetry to keep his bearings while staying at home during COVID-19. Read more from Vivia Chen’s interview here.
Barbara Hughes-Moore, Nicole Mansfield Wright’s Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) (Book Review) @Barbara_Elin @JHUPress
Book Review: Nicole Mansfield Wright, Defending Privilege Barbara Hughes-Moore In Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel, Nicole Mansfield Wright impressively critiques the ways in which conservative writers have...
Critical Legal Studies Conference 2020 Postponed
From the Organizers of the Critical Legal Conference 2020: It is with heavy hearts that we are postponing the Critical Legal Conference 2020. The conference was scheduled for 3-5 September 2020 at...
Lawyer/Musician Matthew Seligman Dies
Matthew Seligman, musician and lawyer, has died from effects of COVID-19. Mr. Seligman was a bass player, having performed with David Bowie, Tori Amos, Thomas Dolby, and among others. He also practiced human rights...
HBO’s Perry Mason Premieres June 21st @HBO @TheMysterious
HBO’s new series Perry Mason premieres on June 21. Set in a gritty 1932 Los Angeles, it focuses on a young Mason (played by Matthew Rhys), earning his living not as an attorney but as...
Johnson and Koenig on Aristotle and the Ethics of Narrative @LoriDelaneyJ
Lori D. Johnson, UNLV School of Law, and Melissa Love Koenig, Marquette Law School, have published Walk the Line: Aristotle & The Ethics of Narrative as an UNLV Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper...
Stern on Legal Fictions and Legal Fabrication @ArsScripta
Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Legal Fictions and Legal Fabrication at Fictional Discourse and the Law 191 (Hans Lind, ed., Routledge, 2020). This chapter examines two of the most influential theories...