• Ollikainen-Read and Murphy on Law as a Means of Communicating Colonial Control in India: Max Planck Lawcast, Episode 8 @maxplancklaw @mpilhlt

    Updated: 2024-01-30 04:11:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 29, 2024 Ollikainen-Read and Murphy on Law as a Means of Communicating Colonial Control in India : Max Planck Lawcast , Episode 8 maxplancklaw mpilhlt Erica Ollikainen-Read , Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory , and Christopher Murphy , Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime , Security and Law , have published Law as a Means of Communicating Colonial Control in , India as Max Planck Lawcast , Episode 8. Here is the abstract . In this episode of the Lawcast , Erica Ollikainen-Read explains to Christopher Murphy that the British Empire was not just shipping , merchants , soldiers , cannon , and conquest . Rather , some of the most long-lasting parts

  • Teaching Materials on Comics, From Nick Sousanis @nsousanis on all the socials fwiw @SFSU

    Updated: 2024-01-26 20:53:00
    Newly available from Nick Sousanis:Wonderful materials on how to make and use comics in the classroom at Spin, Weave, and Cut.Nick is a professor at San Francisco State University and the author of the brilliant Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015). 

  • Davies on A Stout Stanza of Many Meaning, Maybe: The Romantic Roots of Some Buried Caesar @GB2d @horacefuller @georgemasonlaw

    Updated: 2024-01-25 02:06:00
    : , : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 24, 2024 Davies on A Stout Stanza of Many Meaning , Maybe : The Romantic Roots of Some Buried Caesar GB2d horacefuller georgemasonlaw Ross E . Davies , George Mason University Law School The Green Bag , has published A Stout Stanza of Many Meanings , Maybe : The Romantic Roots of Some Buried Caesar at 25 The Gazette , a Journal of Detective Fiction 4 Autumn 2023 This paper presents a bit of speculation actually , two speculations about Rex Stout’s sixth Nero Wolfe Archie Goodwin novel , Some Buried Caesar . I hope those speculations will inspire or perhaps it would be better to say incite discussion about Stout’s choice of title for the tale . First , the question : Where

  • Call For Participation, 2024 European Society for the Study of English Conference: Panel: What Do the Humanities Have to Say to Law? @Greta_Olson_

    Updated: 2024-01-23 20:19:00
    : , : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 23, 2024 Call For Participation , 2024 European Society for the Study of English Conference : Panel : What Do the Humanities Have to Say to Law Greta_Olson_ Call for participation : nbsp The 2024 European Society for the Study of English . conference The conference will take place at the University of Lausanne , Switzerland , 26-30 August 2024. Calls for participation still include call for individual papers and posters and participation in the doctoral symposium . Both close January 31, 2024. Seminar 56, convened by Professors Greta Olson University of Giessen , Germany greta.olson anglistik.uni-giessen.de , nbsp Armelle Sabatier Paris-Panthéon-Assas University , France

  • Bahnson and Shreve on Legal Treatises and the Evolution of Civil Rights Case Law @DukeLawLibrary @DukeLaw

    Updated: 2024-01-22 19:18:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 22, 2024 Bahnson and Shreve on Legal Treatises and the Evolution of Civil Rights Case Law DukeLawLibrary DukeLaw Jane Bahnson and Wickliffe Shreve , both of Duke University School of Law , have published Legal Treatises and the Evolution of Civil Rights Case Law as Duke Law School Public Law Legal Theory Series No . 2023-68. Here is the abstract . During the 2022 term , the Supreme Court cited treatises to change legal precedent in two important civil rights cases . We examined the Supreme Court’s use of treatises in previous terms to reverse course on civil rights . Of 315 opinions identified , approximately half included treatise citations , more often by

  • Zhang on The Private Law Influence of the Great Qing Code @ZhangTaisu @YaleLawSch @CambridgeUP

    Updated: 2024-01-22 19:10:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 22, 2024 Zhang on The Private Law Influence of the Great Qing Code ZhangTaisu YaleLawSch CambridgeUP Taisu Zhang , Yale Law School , has published The Private Law Influence of the Great Qing Code in The Making of the Chinese Civil Code 249-268 Hao Jiang Pietro Sirena eds . Cambridge Univ . Press , 2023 Here is the abstract . This chapter considers the socioeconomic functionality of legal codes and codification through the lens of late imperial Chinese legal history . Specifically , it asks whether formal legal codes can wield significant influence over private socioeconomic behavior despite being poorly enforced—or even unenforced—and whether such influence derives , in part ,

  • van den Berge on Roman Dictatorship: Emergency Government and the Limits of Legality @berge_lukas @UniUtrecht

    Updated: 2024-01-19 18:27:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 19, 2024 van den Berge on Roman Dictatorship : Emergency Government and the Limits of Legality berge_lukas UniUtrecht Lukas van den Berge , Utrecht University Faculty of Law , has published Roman Dictatorship : Emergency Government and the Limits of Legality as a Utrecht University School of Law Research Paper . Here is the abstrac Doctrinal approaches to Roman law are currently often supplemented by contextual legal-historical scholarship that aims to expose Roman law’s connections with its socio-political , religious and broader intellectual environment . This article draws attention to the relevance of such contextual research for modern legal problems . An analysis of

  • Stanchi on The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth of Berkowitz @BoydLawUNLV

    Updated: 2024-01-16 14:56:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 16, 2024 Stanchi on The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth of Berkowitz BoydLawUNLV Kathryn Stanchi , University of Nevada , Las Vegas , School of Law , is publishing The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth v . Berkowitz in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law . Here is the abstract . United States law and culture have yet to find a constructive and fair way to talk about rape , especially in non-paradigmatic” rape cases like acquaintance or date rape . Particularly on college campuses , acquaintance rape is an ongoing , severe problem . Leading legal minds disagree sharply on how to address it . In part , this polarizing debate stems

  • Epps and Green on Black Lawyers Matter: An Oral History of Race-Inclusive Admissions at Yale @TempleLaw @TempleEpps

    Updated: 2024-01-14 15:39:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 14, 2024 Epps and Green on Black Lawyers Matter : An Oral History of Race-Inclusive Admissions at Yale TempleLaw TempleEpps JoAnne Epps and Craig Green , both of Temple University School of Law , have published Black Lawyers Matter : An Oral History of Race-Inclusive Admissions at Yale as Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No . 2023-21. Here is the abstract . Almost no one knows that Yale had the first affirmative action policy of any elite law school in the country . Twelve Black students who were admitted in 1968 formed the largest nonwhite group to attend Yale Law School in 150 years . At the time , race-inclusive admissions were immediately condemned as an

  • Hooton and Murphy on Provincial Poor Laws and Pauper Auctions: The Elizabethan Welfare System in Colonial Canada @MPICSL @mpilhlt @maxplancklaw

    Updated: 2024-01-14 15:31:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 14, 2024 Hooton and Murphy on Provincial Poor Laws and Pauper Auctions : The Elizabethan Welfare System in Colonial Canada MPICSL mpilhlt maxplancklaw Victoria Hooton , Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory , and Christopher Murphy , Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime , Security and Law , have published Provincial Poor Laws and Pauper Auctions : The Elizabethan Welfare System in Colonial Canada as Max Planck Lawcast , Episode 3. Here is the abstract . In this episode Christopher Murphy travels back in time with Victoria Hooton to discuss the regulation of poverty in England and Wales in the early 17th century , with a specific focus on the 1601 Act

  • Edmonds on Why We Should Stop Talking About Violent Offenders: Storytelling and Decarceration @UMichLaw @nulawreview

    Updated: 2024-01-14 03:42:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture January 13, 2024 Edmonds on Why We Should Stop Talking About Violent Offenders : Storytelling and Decarceration UMichLaw nulawreview Mira Edmonds , University of Michigan Law School , is publishing Why We Should Stop Talking About Violent Offenders : Storytelling and Decarceration in the Northeastern University Law School . Here is the abstract . The movement to decarcerate risks foundering because of its failure to grapple with so-called violent offenders , 8221 who make up nearly half of U.S . prisoners . The treatment of people serving sentences for offenses categorized as violent is a primary reason for the continued problem of mass incarceration , despite widespread awareness

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