Blackstone’s Sister
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK the First. Chapter the Fourth. Of the KING’s Royal FAMILY. This short chapter is mostly about queens. Blackstone explains that there are three kinds. Most of...
News
The King Is Dead, Long Live the Law
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. Of the RIGHTS of PERSONS. Chapter the Third. Of the King, and his Title. In this chapter you really see how Blackstone both inspired and...
Equality and Ooze
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. The RIGHTS of PERSONS. Chapter the Second. Of the Parliament In this chapter, Blackstone explains (p. 142) that for the rest of Book I...
Private Property and the Romance of Holiday Gift Giving
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. Chapter the First. Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals. As I noted in my Christmas post last week, this chapter is where Blackstone identifies “private...
Rights of Passage
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the First. Chapter the Second. Of the Parliament BlackStoneWeekly was in the midst of analyzing this chapter when, watching Barack Obama’s inauguration, my attention was drawn to...
Merry Christmas
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the first. Of the RIGHTS of PERSONS. Chapter the first. Of the absolute RIGHTS of INDIVIDUALS. Black Stone Weekly is taking this week off to...
Law and Hope
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Introduction. Section the Second. Of the NATURE of LAWS in General. In this section, Blackstone gives his famous definition of law: “a rule of civil conduct prescribed...
Wilson on The Digital Ethnography of Law: Studying Online Hate Speech Online and Offline @richardawilson7 @UConnLaw
Richard Ashby Wilson, University of Connecticut School of Law, has published The Digital Ethnography of Law: Studying Online Hate Speech Online and Offline, at 3 Journal of Legal Anthropology 1 (October 2019). Here is...
David Barnett on the Fiction and Reality of Blade Runner @BBC_Culture @davidmbarnett
David Barnett notes that we are now living in the month and year of Blade Runner‘s fictional “now,” and asks how much of it is real. In an article for BBC Culture, he writes in...
Newly Published: Katherine Isobel Baxter, Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) @EdinburghUP
Newly published: Katherine Isobel Baxter, Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature, and the Humanities). Examines representations of the law in colonial and...