• Mirow on The Mexican Civil Code of 1928 and the Social Function of Property in Mexico and Latin America @FIULaw

    Updated: 2023-07-30 01:34:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 29, 2023 Mirow on The Mexican Civil Code of 1928 and the Social Function of Property in Mexico and Latin America FIULaw M . C . Mirow , Florida International University College of Law , has published The Mexican Civil Code of 1928 and the Social Function of Property in Mexico and Latin America at 37 Emory Int'l L . Rev . 365 2023 Here is the abstract . The social function of property and the version of this idea expounded by French jurist Léon Duguit did not find a significant home in the Mexican Civil Code of 1928, and these ideas of property were only subsequently adopted as a guiding principles of Mexican property law . After the promulgation of the Code , private law jurists

  • Quigley on Diplomatic and Consular Law in the Age of Empire @OSU_Law @CambridgeUP

    Updated: 2023-07-30 01:30:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 29, 2023 Quigley on Diplomatic and Consular Law in the Age of Empire OSU_Law CambridgeUP John Bernard Quigley , Ohio State University College of Law , is publishing Diplomatic and Consular Law in the Age of Empire in The Cambridge History of International Law Randall Lesaffer , general editor , Stephen C . Neff , volume editor , Cambridge University Press Here is the abstract . Diplomatic and consular law underwent significant alterations in Europe in the nineteenth century as result of changes in the political and international order . With the expansion of trade , European states came to exchange envoys with states in other continents . Envoys increasingly promoted the

  • The Bomb

    Updated: 2023-07-29 18:01:39
    The atomic bomb and the Trinity Test is much in the news due to the release of the movie Oppenheimer last week on July 21st. I hope to watch the movie one of these days on an IMAX GT screen. There are a few in the US (sadly none in India.) The popular press bombards … Continue reading "The Bomb"

  • Witte and Domingo, Preface, in Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law @EmoryLaw @OUPLaw @RafaelDomingoO1

    Updated: 2023-07-28 16:21:00
    : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 28, 2023 Witte and Domingo , Preface , in Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law EmoryLaw OUPLaw RafaelDomingoO1 John Witte , Emory University School of Law , and Rafael Domingo , University of Navarra School of Law , are publishing Preface to Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law in Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law John Witte and Rafael Domingo , eds . Oxford : Oxford University Press forthcoming Here is the abstract . This is the preface to a major new volume that tells the story of the interactions of Christianity and law historically and today , in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and now around the globe . Sixty new chapters by leading scholars show

  • Martinico on Whether Batman Is Above the Law: Law and Justice In the Batman Fictional Universe @martinicogi @SantAnnaPisa

    Updated: 2023-07-19 22:23:00
    Giuseppe Martinico, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, has published Is Batman Above the Law? Law and Justice in the Batman Fictional Universe as STALS RESEARCH PAPER 4/2023. Here is the abstract. In this essay I shall attempt to explore the relationship of law and justice in Batman, seeing how he understands law and how he relates to law. To do so, an itinerary will be proposed, looking at comics and animated series (excluding, therefore, the film versions, except for a few "raids" in Nolan's trilogy). Download the article from SSRN at the link.

  • Jewel on Dark Connections @ljewel @CreightonLawRev @UTKLaw

    Updated: 2023-07-19 20:03:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 19, 2023 Jewel on Dark Connections ljewel CreightonLawRev UTKLaw Lucy A . Jewel , University of Tennessee College of Law , is publishing Dark Connections in volume 56 of the Creighton Law Review 2023 Here is the abstract . This paper explores the troubling cultural connections between plantation management relations and the patriarchy , pugilism , and privilege that run through contemporary U.S . business culture . First , the Comment will briefly describe some theoretical concepts that explain why an interdisciplinary study of legal history and culture provides value for scholars interested in stopping the same old hierarchical patterns from recurring . Second , the Comment will

  • Bendesky on "The Key-Stone to the Arch": Unlocking Section 13's Original Meaning @Harvard_Law @PennJCL

    Updated: 2023-07-12 18:11:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 12, 2023 Bendesky on The Key-Stone to the Arch Unlocking Section 13's Original Meaning Harvard_Law PennJCL Kevin Bendesky , Harvard Law School , is publishing The Key-Stone to the Arch’ : Unlocking Section 13’s Original Meaning in volume 26 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 2023 Here is the abstract . The Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that Section 13 of the State’s Constitution , which prohibits all cruel punishments , 8221 is coextensive with the Eighth Amendment , which prohibits only cruel and unusual punishments . 8221 Rather than analyze the state provision independently , the court defers to the U.S . Supreme Court’s interpretation of the

  • Tyler on Judicial Review in Times of Emergency: From the Founding Through the COVID-19 Pandemic @profamandatyler @BerkeleyLaw @VirginiaLawRev

    Updated: 2023-07-12 17:17:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 12, 2023 Tyler on Judicial Review in Times of Emergency : From the Founding Through the COVID-19 Pandemic profamandatyler BerkeleyLaw VirginiaLawRev Amanda L . Tyler , University of California , Berkeley , School of Law , is publishing Judicial Review in Times of Emergency : from the Founding through the COVID-19 Pandemic in volume 109 of the Virginia Law Review . Here is the abstract . Whether deferring to President Lincoln’s blockade at the start of the Civil War , a state’s suspension of creditors’ remedies during the Great Depression , or President’s Roosevelt’s evacuation and mass incarceration of Japanese Americans in the West during World War II , the Supreme Court has

  • Surana on Breaking the Cycle: Exposing Victim Blaming in Media Through the "Pink Lens" @JindalGlobalUNI

    Updated: 2023-07-06 14:18:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 6, 2023 Surana on Breaking the Cycle : Exposing Victim Blaming in Media Through the Pink Lens JindalGlobalUNI Palak Surana , O . P . Jindal Global University , has published Breaking the Cycle : Exposing Victim Blaming in Media Through the Pink Lens Here is the abstract . The article , Breaking the Cycle : Exposing Victim Blaming in Media through the Pink lens examines the issue of victim blaming V.B . in the media , with a specific focus on cross-religious V.B . The perpetuation of V.B . in the media contributes to a lack of empathy and understanding towards victims , perpetuates harmful stereotypes , and hinders efforts to create a just and equitable society . The article

  • Mohr on Opposition to the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution @UCDLawSchool

    Updated: 2023-07-06 13:43:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 6, 2023 Mohr on Opposition to the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution UCDLawSchool Thomas Mohr , Sutherland School of Law , University College Dublin , has published Opposition to the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution as UCD Working Papers in Law , Criminology Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No . 8-2023. Here is the abstract . This paper outlines why some Irish people felt that they could not support the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State and how they expressed their opposition to it . The most obvious group that opposed the 1922 Constitution were those that had also opposed the Anglo Irish Treaty signed in 1921. This paper will examine the legal arguments used by this

  • ICYMI: Roscini on Intervention in XIXth Century International Law and the Distinction between Rebellions, Insurrections and Civil Wars @marcoroscini @UW_WLS

    Updated: 2023-07-05 18:16:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture July 5, 2023 ICYMI : Roscini on Intervention in XIXth Century International Law and the Distinction between Rebellions , Insurrections and Civil Wars marcoroscini UW_WLS ICYMI : Marco Roscini , University of Westminster School of Law Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights , has published Intervention in XIXth Century International Law and the Distinction between Rebellions , Insurrections and Civil Wars at 50 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 269 2020 Here is the abstract . This article looks at how customary international law rules on intervention developed in the XIXth century . In particular , different forms of internal unrest are examined in order to

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