• Forthcoming: Workshop on the Theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions, July 18-19, 2023 @SLSA_UK @aperrykessaris @KentLawSchool @BrunelLaw

    Updated: 2023-03-31 14:43:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 31, 2023 Forthcoming : Workshop on the Theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions , July 18-19, 2023 SLSA_UK aperrykessaris KentLawSchool BrunelLaw A workshop on the theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions will be held on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 July , 2023 in central . London Organisers : nbsp Victoria Barnes and Amanda Perry-Kessaris Funded by : nbsp Socio-Legal Studies Association and Kent Law School Exhibitions range widely in form , including from spontaneous pop-up to enduring archive , material to digital , and localised to roving . They vary in purpose , including from documentation to deconstruction , resolution to disruption , inclusion to resistance , and query to

  • Ablavsky and Allread on We the (Native) People: How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S. Constitution @StanfordLaw @tannerallread

    Updated: 2023-03-23 20:22:00
    : : . skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 23, 2023 Ablavsky and Allread on We the Native People : How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S . Constitution StanfordLaw tannerallread Gregory Ablavsky , Stanford Law School , and W . Tanner Allread , Stanford University , Department of History , have published We the Native People How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S . Constitution at 123 Columbia Law Review 243 2023 Here is the abstract . The Constitution was written in the name of the People of the United States . 8221 And yet , many of the nation’s actual people were excluded from the document’s drafting and ratification based on race , gender , and class . But these groups were far from silent . A more inclusive

  • Gould and Kelly Asking Who's Afraid of Imaginary Claims? Common Misunderstandings of the Origin of the Action for Pure Psychiatric Injury in Negligence 1888-1943 @OxfordLawFac

    Updated: 2023-03-20 19:34:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 20, 2023 Gould and Kelly Asking Who's Afraid of Imaginary Claims Common Misunderstandings of the Origin of the Action for Pure Psychiatric Injury in Negligence 1888-1943 OxfordLawFac Imogen Gould , University of Oxford , Faculty of Law , and Catherine Kelly , University of Bristol , have published Who’s Afraid of Imaginary Claims Common Misunderstandings of the Origin of the Action for Pure Psychiatric Injury in Negligence 1888-1943 at 138 Law Quarterly Review 58 2022 Here is the abstract . Discusses , with reference to case law , common misconceptions surrounding the origins and development of the negligence action for pure psychiatric injury between 1888 and 1943, and argues

  • Newly Published: Kathleen Brown, Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) @PennPress

    Updated: 2023-03-19 19:35:00
    : : , : , , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 19, 2023 Newly Published : Kathleen Brown , Undoing Slavery : Bodies , Race , and Rights in the Age of Abolition University of Pennsylvania Press , 2023 PennPress Newly : Published Kathleen Brown , Undoing Slavery : Bodies , Race , and Rights in the Age of Abolition University of Pennsylvania Press , 2023 Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's . contents Undoing Slavery excavates cultural , political , medical , and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms . Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and

  • Tobia on Whether We're All Texualists Now @kevin_tobia @NYUasal

    Updated: 2023-03-16 17:45:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 16, 2023 Tobia on Whether We're All Texualists Now kevin_tobia NYUasal Kevin Tobia , Georgetown University Law Center Department of Philosophy , is publishing We're Not All Textualists Now in the NYU Annual Survey of American Law 2023 Here is the abstract . We’re all textualists now , 8221 announced Justice Kagan in 2015. In 2022, she rescinded the claim : It seems I was wrong . 8221 We’re not all textualists . This Article explores the meaning and impact of these two statements . It argues that the first statement was not mere hyperbole it expressed that there is a significant sense in which modern American legal interpretive culture is textualist . The shared commitment is not

  • Havasy, Macey, and Richardson on Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation @Maceyjoshua @VandLRev @Harvard_Law @CornellLaw

    Updated: 2023-03-16 17:39:00
    : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 16, 2023 Havasy , Macey , and Richardson on Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation Maceyjoshua VandLRev Harvard_Law CornellLaw Christopher Havasy , Harvard Law School Harvard University , Department of Government , Joshua Macey , University of Chicago Law School , and Brian Richardson , Cornell Law School , are publishing Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation in the Vanderbilt Law Review . Here is the abstract . Judges and academics have long relied on the work of a small number of Enlightenment political theorists—particularly Locke , Montesquieu , and Blackstone—to discern meaning from vague and ambiguous constitutional provisions .

  • Funk and Mayson on Bail at the Founding @kellenfunk @pennlaw @ColumbiaLaw

    Updated: 2023-03-15 21:54:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 15, 2023 Funk and Mayson on Bail at the Founding kellenfunk pennlaw ColumbiaLaw Kellen Funk , Columbia University Law School , and Sandra G . Mayson , University of Pennsylvania Law School , have published Bail at the Founding Here is the abstract . How did criminal bail work in the founding era This question has become pressing as bail , and bail reform , have attracted increasing attention , in part because history is thought to bear on the meaning of bail-related provisions in state and federal constitutions . To date , however , there has been no thorough account of bail at the Founding . This Article begins to correct the deficit in our collective memory by describing bail

  • Newly Published: Christian Fritz, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2023) @UNM_Law @CambridgeUP

    Updated: 2023-03-15 21:02:00
    : : , : , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 15, 2023 Newly Published : Christian Fritz , Monitoring American Federalism : The History of State Legislative Resistance Cambridge University Press , 2023 UNM_Law CambridgeUP Newly : published Christian Fritz , Emeritus Professor of Law , University of New Mexico , Monitoring American Federalism : The History of State Legislative Resistance Cambridge University Press , 2023 Studies In Legal History Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's . contents Monitoring American Federalism examines some of the nation's most significant controversies in which state legislatures have attempted to be active partners in the process of constitutional

  • Ides of March

    Updated: 2023-03-15 13:55:30
    Today, the 15th of March, is the ides of March. All sorts of bad things happen on the ides of March. In 1876 on the ides of March, test cricket was born with a match between England and Australia. Julius Caesar was warned by a soothsayer to “beware the ides of March.”  Julius disregarded the … Continue reading "Ides of March"

  • Toomey on "Religion," Before Darwin @profjamestoomey @HaubLawatPace @WashULRev

    Updated: 2023-03-14 16:36:00
    : , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 14, 2023 Toomey on Religion , Before Darwin profjamestoomey HaubLawatPace WashULRev James Toomey , Pace University School of Law , is publishing Religion , Before Darwin in volume 101 of the Wash . U . L . Rev . Here is the abstract . The First Amendment singles out religion” for special treatment , but the boundaries of that concept have always been difficult to describe . Nevertheless , there is a growing consensus that at least as an original matter religion” in the First Amendment refers only to more-or-less theistic doctrines . But scholars have long struggled to explain why theistic doctrines would be worth treating differently than their alternatives . This Article

  • Happy Birthday, Albert

    Updated: 2023-03-14 00:33:36
    Is Albert even a real German name, I wonder. Sounds English to me. Like the name of a character in a Wodehouse novel. Einstein should have had a good German first name. I know Germans with authentic German names — Karl, Ludwig, Hermann, Amadeus, Bodo, Arnold, Dieter, Konrad, Dagmar. Anyway, today is Albert Einstein’s birth … Continue reading "Happy Birthday, Albert"

  • Well-being

    Updated: 2023-03-13 22:35:44
    You’ve probably heard this story. A man was relaxing by the sea shore one morning. A passing wealthy man asks him why he was just sitting idle. “I am enjoying the day, now that I’m done with fishing for today,” he replied. “Why don’t you go catch more fish?” the wealthy man asks. “And why … Continue reading "Well-being"

  • CFP: Symposium on HBO's Succession @DePaulLaw @BandesSusan

    Updated: 2023-03-13 18:06:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 13, 2023 CFP : Symposium on HBO's Succession DePaulLaw BandesSusan From Professor Susan Bandes , DePaul College of Law : Call for Papers The DePaul Law Review will devote the third issue of its 73rd volume slated for publication in Spring 2024 to a Symposium addressing the Emmy-winning scripted drama Succession from a legal and pedagogical point of view . The aim of this special issue is to collect in one place the insights of a variety of faculty members with different legal subject-matter expertise , as a resource for all who are interested in the use of this award-winning work for the teaching , practice , and study of law . The DePaul Law Review has already secured the

  • Tourkochoriti on Comparative Law and Philosophy of History: The Case of Free Speech in American and French Legal Thought @IoannaTourkocho @UniofGalwayLaw @CambridgeUP

    Updated: 2023-03-10 15:44:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 10, 2023 Tourkochoriti on Comparative Law and Philosophy of History : The Case of Free Speech in American and French Legal Thought IoannaTourkocho UniofGalwayLaw CambridgeUP Ioanna Tourkochoriti , Harvard Law School National University of Ireland , Galway NUIG School of Law University of California , Berkeley Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality Anti-Discrimination Law , is publishing Comparative Law and Philosophy of History : The Case of Free Speech in American and French Legal Thought in Comparative legal history , the Values , Purposes and Methods of Historical Comparison Cambridge University Press , forthcoming 2023 Here is the abstract . This chapter proposes to

  • Bamzai on Alexander Hamilton, the Nondelegation Doctrine, and the Creation of the United States @adityabamzai @UVALaw @HarvardJLPP

    Updated: 2023-03-08 15:14:00
    : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 8, 2023 Bamzai on Alexander Hamilton , the Nondelegation Doctrine , and the Creation of the United States adityabamzai UVALaw HarvardJLPP Aditya Bamzai , University of Virginia School of Law , has published Alexander Hamilton , the Nondelegation Doctrine , and the Creation of the United States at 45 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 795 2022 Here is the abstract . In the period immediately preceding the Constitution’s adoption , New Yorkers engaged in a spirited debate over whether a proposed delegation from the State to the federal government authorizing collection of an impost would violate the clause of the New York Constitution that vested supreme legislative

  • David Hume

    Updated: 2023-03-06 19:44:19
    Ever wondered why is it that the Scottish moral philosopher David Hume (1711 – 1776) is usually portrayed wearing what appears to be a tea cozy? Puzzling and funny. Seriously, though, he was one of the greatest stars of the Scottish Enlightenment. The wiki entry on him is worth a careful read. He was a … Continue reading "David Hume"

  • Bernick and Lens on Abortion, Original Public Meaning, and the Ambiguities of Pregnancy @evanbernick @jillwieberlens @NIU_Law @UARKLaw

    Updated: 2023-03-06 18:26:00
    : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 6, 2023 Bernick and Lens on Abortion , Original Public Meaning , and the Ambiguities of Pregnancy evanbernick jillwieberlens NIU_Law UARKLaw Evan D . Bernick , Northern Illinois University College of Law , and Jill Wieber Lens , University of Arkansas School of Law , have published Abortion , Original Public Meaning , and the Ambiguities of Pregnancy as a Northern Illinois University College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper . Here is the abstract . Relying on 1868 abortion statutes , the 2022 Supreme Court held in Dobbs v . Jackson Women’s Health Org . that no federal constitutional right to abortion exists . Mere months later , a petition for certiorari asked the Court

  • Cavedon on Early Stirrings of Modern Liberty in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas @EmoryLaw @LawandReligion

    Updated: 2023-03-06 18:18:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture March 6, 2023 Cavedon on Early Stirrings of Modern Liberty in the Thought of St . Thomas Aquinas EmoryLaw LawandReligion Matthew Cavedon , Emory University , Center for the Study of Law and Religion , has published Early Stirrings of Modern Liberty in the Thought of St . Thomas Aquinas The CSLR Research Paper No . is forthcoming . Here is the abstract . In a 2021 contribution to Politics and Religion , Jesse Russell writes that St . Thomas Aquinas had a decidedly illiberal view of a government . 8221 He says that Aquinas advocates a government in which the people are not given public liberty” and endorses skepticism toward the view that Aquinas prepare[d the way for the mixed

  • Stop all the clocks

    Updated: 2023-03-05 18:22:43
    Philosophy and poetry are my passions. Philosophy exercises my capacity to reason, and reading poetry (can’t write any) provides me the words that describe my emotions. But aren’t emotions and reason opposed to each other? Not according to David Hume. In his “Treatise of Human Nature” he argued that “Reason is, and ought only to … Continue reading "Stop all the clocks"

  • Hitchens

    Updated: 2023-03-04 23:35:15
    The internet reveals to me more than anything else how little I know about the world compared to how much others know. And how intelligent, wise, wealthy, famous, accomplished, and spectacularly talented some others are. In short, granted that I learn a lot through the internet, the unfortunate side-effect is that it gives me an … Continue reading "Hitchens"

  • Inequality

    Updated: 2023-03-04 01:52:32
    Inequality is baked into the nature of reality. There’s no escaping it anywhere or anytime. Cosmology holds that the universe began in a state of perfect equality but then following the period of rapid expansion (inflation), inequality appeared in the form of clusters of matter (stars and galaxies) and empty space. The primary force that … Continue reading "Inequality"

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