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What are the collective nouns (nouns of venery) for hedgehogs and foxes? Depending on the source you consult, for “foxes” you might find “earth,” “leash,” “skulk,” and “sounder.” For “hedgehogs,” you could find “array” and...
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“Judgment”: A Crime Drama Game From Sega/Ryu Ga Gotoku @THR @SEGA @RGGStudio
Brittany Vincent reviews Sega and Ryu ga Gotoku Studio’s crime drama spinoff game Judgment for The Hollywood Reporter. She says in part, There are multiple meaty layers to Judgment that continue to reveal more and more...
Newly Published: Ndior and Rousseau, Le Droit dans la Saga Harry Potter @EnrickBEditions @HValoche
Newly published from EnrickBEditions: Valère Ndior and Nicolas Rousseau, Le Droit dans la Saga Harry Potter (2019). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. Le serment inviolable est-il...
Albino Fox Visits Parking Lot Near London
Via Metro News, a story about an albino fox trotting around an Islington parking lot. There’s video accompanying the story. More here.
Job Announcement: VAP in Legal Communication and Analysis, IU (Bloomington) School of Law
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law invites entry-level and experienced applicants for a visiting professorship in the school’s nationally ranked Legal Communication and Analysis Program. The visitor position is a full-time...
Jewel and Campbell, Death in the Shadows @ljewel
Lucy A. Jewel , University of Tennessee College of Law, and Mary Campbell are publishing Death in the Shadows in Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2019). Here is the abstract. This paper is...
New Books In Law and Literature Forthcoming From Routledge @routledgebooks
Clarendon Reconsidered: Law, Loyalty, Literature, 1640-1674 (Philip Major, ed., Routledge, 2019). Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century British politics, constitutional history and literature. Despite his influence in these and other...
Symbols of Law and Justice @laphamsquart
This article from Lapham’s Quarterly features some symbols of law and justice from around the world, including Shamash, the Babylonian sun god, and Durga, the Hindu warrior goddess.
New From NYU Press: Kathryn D. Temple, Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England (NYU Press, 2019) @NYUpress
Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. William Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into...
Zac O’Yeah on Indian Culture in the Sherlock Holmes Stories @the_hindu
Writer Zac O’Yeah (Tropical Detective, A Hero For Hire) discusses Indian cultural elements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories for The Hindu. He notes that while a major pleasure of the stories is...