• Stern on Omniscient Narrative Modes in Law: From Trial Strategy to the Fellow-Servant Rule @ArsScripta @Law_Cult_Huma

    Updated: 2023-01-30 16:01:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 30, 2023 Stern on Omniscient Narrative Modes in Law : From Trial Strategy to the Fellow-Servant Rule ArsScripta Law_Cult_Huma Simon Stern , University of Toronto Faculty of Law , is publishing Omniscient Narrative Modes in Law : From Trial Strategy to the Fellow-Servant Rule in Law Culture and the Humanities . Here is the abstract . Research in law and literature often uses the term narrative” as a shorthand for various kinds of motivated legal reasoning , indicating that facts , doctrines , and the relations among them have been chosen and arranged for a particular purpose . Alternatively , speaking of narrative” may be a way of conveying that one is concerned with

  • Connolly on Maryland's Historical Firearms Restrictions and What They Mean After Heller, McDonald, and Bruen

    Updated: 2023-01-23 17:47:00
    John Connolly has published Maryland's Historical Firearms Restrictions and What They Mean After Heller, McDonald, and Bruen. Here is the abstract. Historical state laws regulating firearms have become relevant to modern firearms legislation after the Supreme Court’s decisions in Heller, McDonald, and Bruen. This article tries to catalog and analyze all historical firearms laws in one of the original 13 states, Maryland, and considers how those laws might affect modern legislative efforts to regulate firearms. Download the article from SSRN at the link.

  • Behrens and Blocher on A Great American Gun Myth: Race and the Naming of the "Saturday Night Special" @DukeLawLibrary @DukeLaw

    Updated: 2023-01-23 17:39:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 23, 2023 Behrens and Blocher on A Great American Gun Myth : Race and the Naming of the Saturday Night Special DukeLawLibrary DukeLaw Jennifer L . Behrens , Duke University School of Law , J . Michael Goodson School of Law Library , and Joseph Blocher , Duke University School of Law , have published A Great American Gun Myth : Race and the Naming of the Saturday Night Special' as Duke Law School Public Law Legal Theory Series No . 2023-02. Here is the abstract . At a time when Second Amendment doctrine has taken a strongly historical turn and gun rights advocates have increasingly argued that gun regulation itself is historically racist , it is especially important that

  • Coming Soon: Russell Sandberg, A Historical Introduction to English Law: Genesis of the Common Law (Cambridge University Press, April 2023) @sandbergrlaw @CardiffLaw @CUP_Law

    Updated: 2023-01-20 18:08:00
    : : , : , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 20, 2023 Coming Soon : Russell Sandberg , A Historical Introduction to English Law : Genesis of the Common Law Cambridge University Press , April 2023 sandbergrlaw CardiffLaw CUP_Law Coming soon April 2023 Russell Sandberg , A Historical Introduction to English Law : Genesis of the Common Law Cambridge University . Press Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's : contents There are some stories that need to be told anew to every generation . This book tells one such story . It explores the historical origins of the common law and explains why that story needs to be understood by all who study or come into contact with English law . The book

  • Lahav on A Revisionist History of Products Liability @alahav @CornellLaw

    Updated: 2023-01-20 18:01:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 20, 2023 Lahav on A Revisionist History of Products Liability alahav CornellLaw Alexandra D . Lahav , Cornell Law School , has published A Revisionist History of Products Liability Here is the abstract . Increasingly courts , including the Supreme Court , rely on ossified versions of the common law to decide cases . This Article demonstrates the risks of this use of the common law . The main contribution of the Article is to demonstrate that the traditional narrative about early products law that manufacturers were not liable for injuries caused by their products because the doctrine of privity granted producers immunity from suit by the ultimate consumers of their goods is

  • Stern on From Clapham to Salina: Locating the Reasonable Man @ArsScripta

    Updated: 2023-01-19 17:10:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 19, 2023 Stern on From Clapham to Salina : Locating the Reasonable Man ArsScripta Simon Stern , University of Toronto School of Law , has published From Clapham to Salina : Locating the Reasonable Man in Law Literature 2023 Here is the abstract . The man on the Clapham omnibus” is an often cited but poorly understood name for the standard of reasonable care in tort . It originated in a 1903 decision in which this formula was used not to articulate a legal standard but to describe an average person whose views have no legal significance . This figure finds a cousin in another personification , as the man who takes the magazines at home , and in the evening pushes the

  • New American Studies Journal: A Forum, Vol. 73: Law, Literature, and the Idea of Justice @NASJ_org @Andrew_Majeske

    Updated: 2023-01-15 23:05:00
    : : , . : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 15, 2023 New American Studies Journal : A Forum , Vol . 73 : Law , Literature , and the Idea of Justice NASJ_org Andrew_Majeske From Andrew Majeske , John Jay College of Criminal : Justice The New American Studies Journal : A Forum U . of Göttingen announces the publication of its Vol . 73 : Law , Literature , and the Idea of Justice . The issue was edited by Andrew Majeske John Jay College CUNY and features essays by Amartya Sen and George Anastaplo , and several articles and other matter related to them and their work . The issue also contains law and literature essays by Brook Thomas , James McBride , Dale Barleben , as well as an exchange between Greta Olson

  • Julià n Castro Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:33
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Julià n Castro : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate Castro dropped his White House bid after falling short in polling , . fundraising By Nataly Pak and Sruthi Palaniappan January 2, 2020, 2:33 PM 1:41 Julian Castro , former U.S . Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination , speaks at Saint Anselm College , Jan . 16, 2019, in Manchester , . N.H Mary Schwalm AP Julià n Castro , former housing and urban development secretary under President Barack Obama and former San Antonio , Texas , mayor , entered the 2020

  • John Delaney Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:32
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on John Delaney : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate John Delaney announced he was running for president in July 2017. By Benjamin Siu Mina Kaji and Christine Szabo January 31, 2020, 1:35 PM 7:25 Former Maryland congressman John Delaney speaks to guests at the Monroe County Democrats spaghetti supper at the First Christian Church , Feb . 17, 2019, in Albia , . Iowa Scott Olson Getty Images Former Maryland Congressman and multimillionaire John Delaney was the first Democrat to announce an official 2020 White House bid . Delaney announced he was running in July 2017 in a

  • Kirsten Gillibrand Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:32
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Kirsten Gillibrand : Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate Her campaign struggled to gain traction from the start . She dropped out Aug . 28. By Kelsey Walsh Nataly Pak and Christine Szabo August 28, 2019, 7:24 PM 0:40 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand D-NY speaks during the Women's March at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines , Iowa , Jan . 19, 2019. Gillibrand has announced her candidacy for president in 2020. Jeff Topping Polaris Sen . Kirsten Gillibrand , D-N.Y . made her run official in a video in March . Demonstrating her will to take on the president , Gillibrand

  • Kamala Harris Everything you need to know about the new vice president ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:30
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Kamala Harris : Everything you need to know about the new vice president Harris becomes the first woman to serve as vice . president By Tessa Weinberg and Sruthi Palaniappan January 20, 2021, 4:07 AM 1:30 Senator Kamala Harris appears on Good Morning America , Jan . 21, 2019. Lorenzo Bevilaqua ABC Former California Sen . Kamala Harris is making history Wednesday as the first woman and first woman of color to serve as vice . president A former prosecutor and ground-breaking attorney general in California , Harris broke barriers throughout her career . She launched an unsuccessful bid for president in

  • John Hickenlooper Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:30
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on John Hickenlooper : Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate Hickenlooper suspended his campaign due to low poll numbers and a lack of donors By Mina Kaji Christine Szabo and Bobby Gehlen August 15, 2019, 1:27 PM 0:47 Former Colorado Gov . John Hickenlooper , left , applauds at a campaign house party , Feb . 13, 2019, in Manchester , N.H . Hickenlooper is contemplating a run for the Democratic presidential . candidacy Elise Amendola AP Former Colorado Gov . John Hickenlooper has been described as a politician as unusual as his name He turned his success as a brewery

  • Jay Inslee Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:29
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Jay Inslee : Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate He dropped out of the race on Aug . 21 and is seeking a third term as . governor By Mina Kaji and Christine Szabo August 21, 2019, 9:49 PM 0:52 Washington Gov . Jay Inslee speaks in Seattle , Feb . 14, 2019. Ted S . Warren AP Washington Gov . Jay Inslee was the first governor to declare a 2020 run for the White House . Early on , Inslee pledged to make climate change his central . focus Out of the : running On Aug . 21, he announced on MSNBC that he was dropping out of the race saying , It 27 s become clear that I

  • Wayne Messam Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:28
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Wayne Messam : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate The little-known Florida mayor suspended his campaign in . November By Bobby Gehlen November 20, 2019, 10:32 PM 0:38 Wayne Messam speaks at the Poor Peoples Moral Action Congress taking place at Trinity Washington University in Washington , DC on June 17, 2019. Michael Brochstein SOPA Images LightRocket via Getty Images The little-known mayor of Miramar , Florida , announced his candidacy for president on March 28. He framed himself as an outsider with a close connection to America 27 s . communities Out of the : running

  • Seth Moulton Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:27
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Seth Moulton : Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate He dropped out on Aug . 23 and will seek re-election in the . House By Samantha Sergi August 23, 2019, 10:13 AM 0:43 Seth Moulton arrives for the House Democrats' caucus meeting in the Capitol , Nov . 15, 2018, in Washington , . DC Bill Clark CQ-Roll Call,Inc . Getty Imnages , FILE Rep . Seth Moulton , D-Mass . served four tours of duty in Iraq earned three Harvard degrees , has served four years in Congress . After formally announcing his candidacy for president on ABC 27 s Good Morning America , quot Moulton

  • Beto O 27 Rourke Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:26
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Beto O 27 Rourke : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate When he lost to Sen . Ted Cruz , there was speculation he would run for . president By Mina Kaji and Bobby Gehlen September 12, 2019, 6:31 PM 0:32 Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke speaks to a crowd of marchers during the March for Truth in El Paso , Texas , Feb . 11, 2019. Paul Ratje AFP Getty Images Former Rep . Beto O 27 Rourke , D-Texas , was virtually unknown until he challenged Sen . Ted Cruz R-Texas , last year for his seat in the Senate . Although O 27 Rourke lost , it was the closest any Democratic

  • Deval Patrick Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:26
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Deval Patrick : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate He was the first African American elected to be Massachusetts . governor By Libby Cathey February 12, 2020, 2:23 PM 1:55 Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick speaks at a meeting of the Polk County Democrats on Nov . 18, 2019, in Des Moines , . Iowa Stephen Maturen Getty Images In a sharp reversal from his 2018 decision to not pursue a presidential run , former two-term Massachusetts Gov . Deval Patrick formally entered the 2020 race on Nov . 14 with less than three months before the first votes were cast . A

  • Tim Ryan Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:25
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Tim Ryan : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate The Ohio congressman said he will seek re-election for his House . seat By Will Steakin and Sruthi Palaniappan October 24, 2019, 3:31 PM 11:58 Rep . Tim Ryan , R-Ohio , talks with reporters outside the House Democrats' leadership elections in Washington D.C . Nov . 29, 2018. Tom Williams CQ Roll Call Getty Images Ohio Rep . Tim Ryan announced his candidacy for president during an April 4 appearance on ABC 27 s The View . quot Out of the : running He dropped out of the race on Oct . 24, but said , this voice will not be

  • Joe Sestak Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:24
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Joe Sestak : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate Sestak announced he was dropping out of the race in a December 2019 . tweet By Bobby Gehlen December 1, 2019, 5:52 PM 0:37 Joe Sestak , former Representative from Pennsylvania and 2020 presidential candidate , speaks during the Democratic Wing Ding event in Clear Lake , Iowa , Aug . 9, 2019. Daniel Acker Bloomberg via Getty Images Former Pennsylvania congressman and three-star Navy admiral Joe Sestak entered the presidential race in a video announcing his candidacy on June 23, about two weeks before the first candidate

  • Tom Steyer Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:24
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Tom Steyer : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate The billionaire liberal activist cast himself as an outsider . By Bobby Gehlen March 1, 2020, 2:25 PM 0:43 Democratic presidential candidate and businessman Tom Steyer speaks during a public employees union candidate forum , Aug . 3, 2019, in Las . Vegas John Locher AP Billionaire , liberal activist Tom Steyer , who has led an effort dedicated to impeach President Donald Trump became the 26th candidate to enter the 2020 presidential race Months before his presidential announcement , Steyer had said he wouldn 27 t explore a

  • Andrew Yang Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate ABC News

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:36:23
    : ABC News Video Live Shows Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On Stream on Andrew Yang : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate Yang crafted a campaign platform around the issue of universal basic . income By Kendall Karson Bobby Gehlen Christine Szabo and Sruthi Palaniappan February 11, 2020, 9:53 PM 0:55 Andrew Yang speaks at the National Action Network NAN convention in New York City , April 4, 2019. Michael Brochstein Sopa Images LightRocket via Getty Images Andrew Yang one of the candidates who made an early entry in the 2020 field might not have had much name recognition at the start , but his popularity and presence netted an increased

  • Loeffler on The Religions of Human Rights @Jbloeffler

    Updated: 2023-01-10 03:49:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 9, 2023 Loeffler on The Religions of Human Rights Jbloeffler James Loeffler , University of Virginia , is publishing The Religions of Human Rights in the Harvard Theological Review . Here is the abstract . The modern human rights movement arose during a moment of unprecedented encounter between global religions in the mid-twentieth century . Yet attempts to parse the historical relationship between human rights and religious thought have almost exclusively taken the form of case studies of individual religious traditions . This focus on intellectual genealogies obscures the fact that much of human rights doctrine emerged from interreligious contacts and conflicts between

  • Schroeder on A Court of Chaos and Whimsy: On the Self-Destructive Nature of Legal Positivism @cardozojersj

    Updated: 2023-01-10 03:42:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 9, 2023 Schroeder on A Court of Chaos and Whimsy : On the Self-Destructive Nature of Legal Positivism cardozojersj Joshua J . Schroeder , Schroeder Law , is publishing A Court of Chaos and Whimsy : On the Self-Destructive Nature of Legal Positivism Forthcoming , The Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice in the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice . Here is the abstract . Each of the four most famous dictators in modern Western history , Adolf Hitler , Porfirio Díaz , Napoleon Bonaparte , and Oliver Cromwell , were legal positivists . This is to say that they rejected both the common law and natural law conceptions of human rights . They furthermore

  • Stramignoni on Figuring Out Justice in Dark Times: On Law, History, and the Visual @law_humanities

    Updated: 2023-01-06 22:23:00
    : : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 6, 2023 Stramignoni on Figuring Out Justice in Dark Times : On Law , History , and the Visual law_humanities Igor Stramignoni , LSE Law School , has published Figuring Out Justice in Dark Times : On Law , History and the Visual in Law and Humanities . Here is the abstract . What happens when we approach certain objects heuristically as images How is one to orient oneself through such images Might those images challenge our existing knowledge of the history of modernisation and written rationalisation of law after the Middle Ages In this essay , I begin with certain early modern European artworks paintings , engravings , woodcuts , and drawings as well as some other less

  • New Initiative at the University of Helsinki: The Helsinki Legal History Series @CoCoLawProject @HelsinkiLaw @helsinkiuni @eurostorie

    Updated: 2023-01-05 16:13:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 5, 2023 New Initiative at the University of Helsinki : The Helsinki Legal History Series CoCoLawProject HelsinkiLaw helsinkiuni eurostorie From Professor Airton Ribeiro , University of Helsinki , an announcement of an exciting new : initiative During 2023, the CoCoLaw Project and EuroStorie Centre of Excellence will host the Helsinki Legal History Series . The initiative gathers both established scholars and younger researchers who all work at the intersection of law , society and history . The aim is to promote legal historical research and to illustrate the merits of historical approach in analyzing fundamental questions regarding law's embeddedness in society and the

  • Buzbee on Jazz Improvisation and the Law: Constrained Choice, Sequence, and Strategic Movement Within Rules @GeorgetownLaw @UIllLRev

    Updated: 2023-01-04 16:32:00
    : : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 4, 2023 Buzbee on Jazz Improvisation and the Law : Constrained Choice , Sequence , and Strategic Movement Within Rules GeorgetownLaw UIllLRev William W . Buzbee , Georgetown University Law Center , is publishing Jazz Improvisation and the Law : Constrained Choice , Sequence , and Strategic Movement Within Rules in the University of Illinois Law Review . Here is the abstract . This Article argues that a richer understanding of the nature of law is possible through comparative , analogical examination of legal work and the art of jazz improvisation . This exploration illuminates a middle ground between rule of law aspirations emphasizing stability and determinate meanings

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