tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153633762024-03-16T14:52:37.984-04:00Law & Humanities BlogA blog about law, the humanities, and popular culture<br>Daniel J. Solovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16371443144869608077noreply@blogger.comBlogger5451125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-12050766873787429622024-03-15T23:33:00.000-04:002024-03-15T23:33:02.727-04:00Rabban on Jhering's Influence on American Legal Thought @UTexasLawDavid M. Rabban, University of Texas School of Law, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4656483&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal%3Ahistory%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">Jhering's Influence on American Legal Thought</a> in Jhering Global (Stephan Meder and Christoph-Eric Mecke, eds., V&R unipress, 2023). Here is the abstract.
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This article was published as a chapter in Jhering Global, edited by Stephan Meder and Christoph-Eric Mecke (V&R unipress 2023), a collection of essays about Jhering and his influence throughout the world. Before 1900, Jhering was a well-known model for American legal scholars, some of whom had studied law in Germany, including with Jhering himself. The most enduring work of legal scholarship ever written by an American, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s The Common Law, published in 1881, reflects Jhering’s substantial influence, though Holmes himself often did not acknowledge it. Roscoe Pound, whose development of sociological jurisprudence before World War I trans- formed American legal scholarship, graciously and repeatedly indicated how much his own major themes derived from Jhering. Legal realists of the next generation saw themselves as extending Pound’s sociological jurisprudence, recognized its roots in Jhering, and memorably invoked Jhering himself. Eminent German law professors who emigrated to the United States as refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s applied Jhering’s ideas to scholarly and judicial developments in the United States. Though citations of Jhering by American scholars have continued at a relatively constant rate since World War II, most occur while assessing his influence on previous American scholars rather than as a living source for current legal analysis. Many of the recent scholars who cite Jhering, in contrast to their predecessors who often knew German, are only able to read him in translation. My strong impression is that most American legal scholars today have never even heard of Jhering. An important influence on American legal thought in the past, he is now largely unknown.</blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The essay is not available for download from SSRN. </p>
Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-40762527440727878492024-03-13T18:00:00.001-04:002024-03-13T18:00:13.934-04:00Larson on Treason and the Treatise: English Legal Treatises in the American Revolution and Early National Period @carltonfwlarson @UCDavisLaw Carlton F. W. Larson, University of California, Davis, School of Law, has published <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4702739&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal%3Ahistory%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">Treason and the Treatise: English Legal Treatises in the American Revolution and Early National Period</a> in Perspectives on the Legal Treatise: Proceedings of the Second Yale Legal Information Symposium. Here is the abstract.
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Following independence, American attorneys and judges relied extensively on English legal treatises to interpret the framework of American treason law. These treatises became vital participants in the ongoing national conversation about sovereignty, allegiance, and independence. Despite the significant changes wrought by independence, the American legal establishment relied on an English legal framework—defined almost entirely by treatises—when interpreting the highest crime known to the law.
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Download the article from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-67394251225125681172024-03-13T13:51:00.002-04:002024-03-13T13:51:11.510-04:00Solove and Hartzog on Kafka in the Age of AI and the Futility of Privacy as Control @DanielSolove @hartzog @gwlaw @BU_Law @BULawReviewDaniel J. Solove, George Washington Law School, and Woodrow Hartzog, Boston University Law School, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, are publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4685553" target="_blank">Kafka in the Age of AI and the Futility of Privacy as Control</a> in volume 104 of the Boston University Law Review. Here is the abstract.
<blockquote>Although writing more than a century ago, Franz Kafka captured the core problem of digital technologies – how individuals are rendered powerless and vulnerable. During the past fifty years, and especially in the 21st century, privacy laws have been sprouting up around the world. These laws are often based heavily on an Individual Control Model that aims to empower individuals with rights to help them control the collection, use, and disclosure of their data.
In this Essay, we argue that although Kafka starkly shows us the plight of the disempowered individual, his work also paradoxically suggests that empowering the individual isn’t the answer to protecting privacy, especially in the age of artificial intelligence. In Kafka’s world, characters readily submit to authority, even when they aren’t forced and even when doing so leads to injury or death. The victims are blamed, and they even blame themselves.
Although Kafka’s view of human nature is exaggerated for darkly comedic effect, it nevertheless captures many truths that privacy law must reckon with. Even if dark patterns and dirty manipulative practices are cleaned up, people will still make bad decisions about privacy. Despite warnings, people will embrace the technologies that hurt them. When given control over their data, people will give it right back. And when people’s data is used in unexpected and harmful ways, people will often blame themselves.
Kafka’s provides key insights for regulating privacy in the age of AI. The law can’t empower individuals when it is the system that renders them powerless. Ultimately, privacy law’s primary goal should not be to give individuals control over their data. Instead, the law should focus on ensuring a societal structure that brings the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data under control.</blockquote>
Download the article from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-25789488656313098482024-03-05T12:28:00.002-05:002024-03-05T12:28:09.451-05:00Priel on The Legal Realists on Law and Literature @OsgoodeNews @Elgar_Law @ElgarPublishingDan Priel, Osgoode Hall, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4694250&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_philosophy%3Aof%3Alaw%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">The Legal Realists on Law and Literature</a> in The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature (Robert Spoo & Simon Stern eds., 2024) (Forthcoming). Here is the abstract.
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This encyclopedia entry considers the legal realists’ neglected contribution to law and literature. Starting with Cardozo’s essay ‘law and literature’ on the importance of judicial style, it then considers the contributions of the legal realists to the topic, focusing especially on Karl Llewellyn and Jerome Frank. Cardozo and Frank—both judges who were interested in making sure they effectively conveyed their ideas—focused on the style a judge should adopt. By contrast, Llewellyn’s more sociological perspective was concerned with how different periods (as well as different jurisdictions) were dominated by different judicial styles. However, in both cases the question of judicial style also had a political aspect. For Frank, judicial style was important for clearly communicating with the average person subject to law; for Llewellyn, judicial style mattered, because there was a connection between the form of a decision and its substantive quality.</blockquote>
Download the essay from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-84338107402640147862024-02-29T12:48:00.002-05:002024-02-29T12:48:56.527-05:00Rose on Property and Literature: the View From Shakespeare's Venice @uarizonalaw @ArsScripta @@ElgarPublishing @Elgar_Law @Carol M. Rose, University of Arizona College of Law, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4698602" target="_blank">Property and Literature: the View From Shakespeare’s Venice</a> in The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature(Robert Spoo & Simon Stern eds., 2024). Here is the abstract.
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This entry explores property issues in The Merchant of Venice, and in particular the Merchant’s posture toward important claims that have been made for property since the Enlightenment: that secure property enhances social wealth, that property protects individual autonomy, and that property permits the projection of personal projects in the world. The conclusion is that Merchant critiques each from the perspective of considerably older views of the role of property in society. The entry also discusses another claim for property and commerce that some have found in Merchant—that property and commerce soften manners and promote cooperation--but concludes that Merchant does not address that claim despite its setting in the then highly commercial city of Venice.
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Download the essay from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-12943784143348506342024-02-26T13:22:00.004-05:002024-02-26T13:22:48.741-05:00Announcement: Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law <p>From the University of Osnabrueck Summer Institute:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Announcement<br />
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Rights without Borders? Subjects, Precarity, Agency<br />
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9th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law<br />
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The 9th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the
Law (OSI) will be held from July 6 to 14, 2024 at Osnabrück University,
Germany. It aims to encourage and further promote the interdisciplinary study
and research of the interrelations between law and culture, based on the idea
that the extended cultural study of the law will foster productive scholarly
exchange and dialogue between legal studies and the humanities.<br />
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The 2024 OSI will concentrate on key issues and debates within contemporary
cultural legal studies, exploring questions related to, for instance, rights in
general, legal personhood and citizenship, human rights, and the rights of
migrants. We are interested specifically in the following:<br />
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• The historical evolution of predominant (legal) concepts of rights, human
rights, and legal personhood, regarding current debates on culture as an
abiding discourse that enables legal subjectivity and rights claims, as much as
it offers a resource for legal critique.<br />
• The cultural presence and portrayal of the law and the influence of culture
in depicting and disseminating concepts of rights, human rights, ownership,
appropriation, dispossession, etc. (e.g., in fields such as law and literature,
critical humanities, life writing and human rights, philosophy of human rights,
migration and rights).<br />
• How the (cultural and historical) semantics of rights, human rights, and
legal personhood manifest in critical theory and discourse, exploring the
application of rights theory in the humanities and critical cultural studies.<br />
• How a precarious legal status or a flexible approach to legal personhood,
both historically and in current debates, facilitates critical discussion on
(human) rights and our understanding of their nature and scope (how or whether
they might be claimed by people on the move, enslaved people, indigenous
peoples, stateless people, women, LGBTQ+ individuals etc.).<br />
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The OSI brings together leading scholars in the field of cultural legal studies
with international graduate students from the humanities, legal studies, the
social and political sciences, art, and history to create a rare opportunity
for the comparative study of law and culture and their complex interrelation.
The Institute will offer a combination of thematic workshop sessions, small
group seminars and a concluding conference which will focus on key issues and
debates in current cultural legal studies. lt will offer placements for up to
20 international participants (doctoral, post-doctoral and advanced M.A.).<br />
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Confirmed faculty for the 2024 OSI include:<br />
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Jeannine DeLombard (English and History / UC Santa Barbara)<br />
Leila Neti (English and Postcolonial Literature / Occidental College, LA)<br />
Leti Volpp (Law / UC Berkeley)<br />
Bryan Wagner (English / UC Berkeley)<br />
Marco Wan (Law / U of Hongkong)<br />
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Eligibility<br />
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The Summer Institute invites doctoral and postdoctoral students from various
academic fields whose research interests and projects are situated at the
interface between law and the humanities and who are concerned with a better
understanding of the interdependence of law and culture.<br />
Doctoral candidates in literature, the law, the arts, the humanities, and the
related social sciences are encouraged to apply, as are advanced students
pursuing a J.D. or its equivalent (such as the L.L.B). Young scholars or junior
faculty members who have received a Ph.D. or corresponding degree in the last
five years are also eligible. While applications by doctoral/post-doctoral
students are prioritized, the Summer Institute will also consider strong
applications from advanced Master students about to conclude their studies and
with a strong interest in interdisciplinary research.<br />
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Application Process<br />
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Students interested in taking part in the Summer Institute should submit their
applications no later than April 1st, 2024. Detailed and updated information
about the Institute, the sessions, international faculty, admission and fees
can be found at:<br />
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*Questions*<br />
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Please direct all inquiries and questions to the OSI coordinator at <a href="mailto:lawandculture@uos.de">lawandculture@uos.de</a><br />
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OSI Team<br />
International Osnabrück Summer Institute<br />
c/o Institute for English and American Studies (IfAA)<br />
Universität Osnabrück<br />
Neuer Graben 40<br />
D-49074 Osnabrück / Germany<br />
e-mail: <a href="mailto:lawandculture@uos.de">lawandculture@uos.de</a><br />
<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cccorcos%40lsu.edu%7C9e3bbf4168e84f2bbc9508dc36d15a5f%7C2d4dad3f50ae47d983a09ae2b1f466f8%7C0%7C0%7C638445521315612903%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zJGmPkxtr9wnFxKd5Ibm%2FAal2SmTijXD1DsUTSaGVHE%3D&reserved=0">https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ct.giddens%40dundee.ac.uk%7C44117da70d1a48f991ee08dc332730c3%7Cae323139093a4d2a81a65d334bcd9019%7C0%7C0%7C638441491381032252%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ce9v8UZKTEWpHTLC8UGWfCT4iFq60zKdudpqWGESNhM%3D&reserved=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-33628840275951045022024-02-25T11:24:00.000-05:002024-02-25T11:24:09.884-05:00Webber on Gilead Constitutionalism @GregoireWebber @queensulaw @LSELawGrégoire Webber, Queen's University Faculty of Law; London School of Economics, Law School, has published <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4670761&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_jurisprudence%3Alegal%3Aphilosophy%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">Gilead Constitutionalism</a> as Queen's University Legal Research Paper 2024-001. Here is the abstract.
<blockquote>This essay explores the concept of government by drawing on the liberal tradition of limited government. In that tradition, moral autonomy and independence are situated as the source of limits on government justified on other grounds. An alternative relationship between government and moral autonomy and independence is here examined, one according to which such autonomy and independence lie at the very heart of the justification for government rather than limiting its activity. The task of government is thus conceived as enabling moral autonomy and independence. One consequence of this way of understanding the justification for government is to deny that a government uncommitted to the liberal ideas of autonomy and independence counts as a government. Drawing on the example of Gilead in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, I explore how the claim of the officers of Gilead to be a government fails: in indiscriminately violating moral autonomy and independence, those officers are tyrants, oppressors, dictators, autocrats—but they are no government. This essay, to be included in a collection in celebration of Leslie Green, concludes by exploring how Green’s contributions to our understanding of government and governing were developed in conversation with one whose ideas on many matters were at a great distance from Green’s own. Green’s example of honourable engagement is a reminder of how progress in jurisprudence is facilitated by seeking the truth in charitable collaboration with others.
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Download the article from SSRN at the link. NB: There are two versions of this article.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-89763575436888513252024-02-20T12:27:00.002-05:002024-02-20T12:27:51.189-05:00Ziegler on The History of Neutrality: Dobbs and the Social Movement Politics of History and Tradition @maryrziegler @YaleLJournalMary Ziegler, University of California, Davis, School of Law, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4595366&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_women%2C%3Agender%3Athe%3Alaw%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">The History of Neutrality: Dobbs and the Social Movement Politics of History and Tradition</a> in the Yale Law Journal Forum. Here is the abstract.
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By excavating the history around the history-and-tradition test used in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and the alternative it pushes to the side, this Essay reconsiders the meaning—and plausibility—of neutrality claims turning on the Dobbs Court’s use of history and tradition.
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Download the essay from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-88231653532979922492024-02-15T20:10:00.003-05:002024-02-15T20:10:37.906-05:00Legal-Literary Imagining: An Early Modern Workshop, 11 March 2024. 10.30am – 6.00pm. New College, Oxford & St John’s College, Oxford<p> <i>L</i><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora;">iterary-Legal Imagining </span></span></span></i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora;">is a one–day workshop, hosted by New College and St John’s College, and supported by CEMS and the English Faculty. This workshop will explore the kinds of research questions that arise from the pervasive overlapping of the legal and the literary in early modern life and texts.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Registration is free but essential</strong> for catering purposes. If you would like to attend, please contact <a href="mailto:daniel.haywood@sjc.ox.ac.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #002147; overflow-wrap: normal; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">daniel.haywood@sjc.ox.ac.uk</a> to register by <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">28 February 2024.</strong></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> More about the workshop <a href="https://earlymodern.web.ox.ac.uk/legal-literary-imagining" target="_blank">here. </a></p>Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-15811124740233920442024-02-13T14:18:00.000-05:002024-02-13T14:18:04.240-05:00Davies on Square Dancing and a Cat at the Supreme Court @horacefuller @georgemasonlawRoss E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law, has published <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4670915&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law%2C%3Anorms%3Ainformal%3Aorder%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">Square Dancing and a Cat at the Supreme Court: Justice Harry A. Blackmun’s First Moment in Charge</a> at 11 Journal of Law 1 (2023). Here is the abstract.
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Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun served on the Supreme Court of the United States from June 1970 to August 1994. He had mixed feelings about the Chief Justices with whom he served. How might a Blackmun Chief Justiceship have been different?
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Download the essay from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-90185128136893411752024-02-12T19:20:00.002-05:002024-02-12T19:20:30.531-05:00Pardo on Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy @WashULaw @COLawReviewRafael I. Pardo, Washington University, St. Louis, School of Law, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4665399&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law%3Asociety%3Aprivate%3Alaw%3Aproperty%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank"> Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy</a> in volume 95 of the University of Colorado Law Review. Here is the abstract.
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Bankruptcy law has been repeatedly reinvented over time in response to changing circumstances. The Bankruptcy Act of 1841—passed by Congress to address the financial ruin caused by the Panic of 1837—constituted a revolutionary break from its immediate predecessor, the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, which was the nation’s first bankruptcy statute. Although Congress repealed the 1841 Act in 1843, the legislation lasted significantly longer than recognized by scholars. The repeal legislation permitted pending bankruptcy cases to be finally resolved pursuant to the Act’s terms. Because debtors flooded the judicially understaffed 1841 Act system with over 46,000 cases, the Act’s administration continued into the 1860s, thereby allowing further development of the law. Importantly, the system operated at a time when the role of the business of slavery in the national economy was increasingly expanding. This Article focuses on two postrepeal episodes involving legal innovation under the Act to demonstrate how an expanded periodization of its duration yields fresh insights into understanding the interaction between federal bankruptcy law and slavery: (1) the judicial constitutional settlement of voluntary bankruptcy relief, part of which occurred through a case involving a bankrupt enslaver; and (2) the practice pursuant to which some federal district courts empowered assignees—the federal court officials appointed to administer property surrendered by bankrupts in 1841 Act cases—to operate a bankrupt’s business before liquidating it, as evidenced by certain cases involving plantation owners who sought relief under the Act.
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Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-79066271383068198452024-02-08T17:22:00.004-05:002024-02-09T09:27:24.737-05:00Call For Papers, Authoring Slavery, Aarhus University, June 18-19, 2024 <p> From Symposium organizers, Aarhus University, Denmark</p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-28100479047091256432024-02-08T16:44:00.003-05:002024-02-08T16:45:18.176-05:00Pozen on The Common Law of Constitutional Conventions @ColumbiaLaw @CalifLRevDavid Pozen, Columbia University Law School, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4663760&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law%3Asociety%3Apublic%3Alaw%3Aconstitutional%3Alaw%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">The Common Law of Constitutional Conventions</a> in the California Law Review. Here is the abstract.
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Professor Jill Lepore's Jorde lecture paints a rich portrait of state constitutional conventions as engines of democratization during the 1800s and issues a dire warning about the United States' ongoing amendment drought. Citing their unfamiliarity, however, Lepore declines to consider federal constitutional conventions as a possible corrective. In this response Essay, I argue: first, that Lepore's marginalization of Article V's convention mechanism is in tension with her own historical and normative account; second, that while Lepore's wariness of conventions is entirely understandable given the state of our politics—and entirely commonplace among progressives—it carries significant risks of its own; and third, that constitutional conventions are not as unfamiliar as they might seem and that our long experience with this institution at the state level supplies guidance as to how a federal convention might be made less scary and more legitimate. If we wish to revive the Framers' "philosophy of amendment" and reclaim popular control over fundamental law, we must figure out how to operationalize that philosophy through credible procedures. The common law of constitutional conventions is a vital resource for this task.
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Download the article from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-66847625511001315742024-02-08T14:47:00.002-05:002024-02-08T14:47:47.092-05:00Phillips on A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of "Possessions" in American English, 1760-1776 @BYUJames Cleith Phillips, Brigham Young University, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4668264&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law%3Asociety%3Apublic%3Alaw%3Aconstitutional%3Alaw%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of "Possessions" in American English, 1760-1776</a> in the Chapman Law Review. Here is the abstract.
<blockquote>The U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures of persons, houses, papers, and effects. Yet state constitutions often use different language, thus providing a different scope of protection. Specifically, starting with Pennsylvania in 1776, sixteen states have constitutional provisions that include possessions as protected from unreasonable searches and seizures. And currently there is litigation in various state courts, including the Pennsylvania State Court, over the meaning of this constitutional protection.
Possessions potentially implies more than houses, papers, or effects—arguably covering anything one possesses, including private land, which would significantly expand the coverage of such constitutional protection. But traditional tools of constitutional interpretation, such as dictionaries or etymology, often fall short in uncovering the original public meaning of constitutional text. Hence, increasingly courts (including the U.S. Supreme Court) have looked to corpus linguistics to better answer the linguistic questions that judges face in interpreting the words of the law. Understandably, judges use economic tools to tackle economic questions and historical tools to answer historical questions. Should they not use linguistic tools for linguistic questions? “[W]ords are . . . the material of which laws are made. Everything depends on our understanding of them.” We can and should use the right tools for seeking this understanding.
This article will proceed in four parts. Part I introduces the question at issue in the context of the first state constitution to include the term: the Pennsylvania Constitution. It does so, at least in part, because other state constitutions arguably copied the Pennsylvania Constitution, and thus the meaning of the that constitution likely sheds light on the state constitutions that followed it. Part II highlights shortcomings of the traditional tools usually employed in constitutional interpretation. Part III explains how the tools of corpus linguistics can address these shortcomings. And Part IV presents a corpus linguistic analysis of the term possessions. This approach, more rigorous than that usually undertaken, provides data on the linguistic question that undergirds the legal issue—which reading of these state constitutions is more probable than the other. After all, a “problem in [legal interpretation] can seriously bother courts only when there is a contest between probabilities of meaning.” Corpus linguistics can help with that contest.
And this article finds that founding-era Americans sometimes used the word possessions to include land one owned, and sometimes not. In the context of the lemma land, a majority of the time the word possessions appeared to include land as property. More significantly, when looking more broadly at any instance of the term possessions, whether or not the lemma land was used nearby, early Americans used the term to include land approximately 86% of the time. This is evidence, then, that the Pennsylvania Constitution, and likely other state constitutions, were originally understood to protect against unreasonable searches of one’s land—thus providing broader protection than the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.</blockquote>
Download the article from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-76801162510049039372024-02-06T16:16:00.001-05:002024-02-06T16:16:16.285-05:00Simon on More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor @uarizonalaw Diana Simon, University of Arizona College of Law, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4656385&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law%3Arhetoric%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Down the Rabbit Hole with Doe</a> in Arizona Attorney. Here is the abstract.
<blockquote>This, at times, irreverent, article is about the practice of using Doe parties in litigation. First, the history of the practice is covered. Second, expansion of the practice is covered along with the reasons why it is disfavored and what the legal test is for allowing fictitious names in litigation, Finally, the article addresses the wide range of names used for pseudonyms beyond just Jane and John Doe.</blockquote>
Download the essay from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-46474555620430732312024-02-06T10:26:00.001-05:002024-02-06T10:26:40.987-05:00Call For Papers, Brazilian Journal of International Law @franca_marcilio <p>From <a href="https://blog.grupogen.com.br/juridico/author/marciliofranca/" target="_blank">Professor Marcilio Franca</a>, <a href="https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi/announcement/view/50?fbclid=PAAaY1D4-pkLZDYoCumYARmAr1E_f_DBZvrNZRNgnEQ9bkl-yTFN1rETjSUTI_aem_AVqg4NGXeCCzfcOxZBCO70q9V1YMNrNOugNL6Xt6iHdcTyGPdDjRmmhWi4KwnDlyUR8" target="_blank">a call for papers</a> for a special issue of the Brazilian Journal of International Law:</p><table id="announcementDescription" style="background-color: white; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #6d6969; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.56px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%;"><tbody style="line-height: 1.5;"><tr style="line-height: 1.5;"><td style="line-height: 1.5;">BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Call for Papers<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Vol. 21 n. 2 2024<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Deadline for submissions: 1st June 2024<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />SPECIAL ISSUE<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />The Brazilian Journal of International Law, a SCOPUS-indexed review, invites submissions for a special issue on “International Food Law” to be published in October 2024. The issue will be edited by Professors Marcílio Toscano Franca Filho (Federal University of Paraíba) and Ardyllis Alves Soares (University Centre of Brasilia).<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />The relationships between food, flavor, taste, palate and law are as old as they are broad. For many centuries, legal norms have been responsible for regulating our ways of eating, drinking, producing food and consuming it, including rules on health protection, labelling, geographical demarcations, authenticity, international trade, food safety, human rights to food, religion (kosher and halal foods) and gastronomic cultural heritage. Private international law, in turn, in addition to many types of contracts on the production, consumption and transport of food, also deals with the “duty of food”. In Europe and the United States, an autonomous branch of Law called Food Law has long been well established, a transdisciplinary field located somewhere between Economic Law, Administrative Law, International Law and Consumer Law. It is also important to mention international organizations related to specific products, such as the “Association Internationale des Juristes pour le Droit de la Vigne et du Vin” (AIDV), founded in 1985 to analyze legal issues relating to the international wine trade. All these circumstances denote the current nature of the debate on Law & Food and legitimize the production of a Dossier on "Food and International Law", in the Brazilian Journal of International Law, which could host texts by Brazilian and foreign colleagues on the following topics:<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Human Right to Food<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Food safety<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Labeling, risks, precautions and traceability<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- New Foods (insects, flowers, GMOs, etc.) and international regulation<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Intellectual property and food<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- ESG and international food trade<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- International regulation of certain foods in kind such as sugar, coffee, wine, spirits and cheese<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- International protection of food consumers<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- SDGs and food<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Climate change and food<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- The protection of animals<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Sanitary and phytosanitary measures<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- International organizations with influence on the agri-food sector: FAO, UNESCO, WHO, Codex Alimentarius, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Formal aspects (requirements):<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />1) Manuscripts should be written in Times New Roman, size 12, space between lines 1,0 throughout the manuscript (including all quotations, endnotes and references).<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />2) Minimum degree:<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />* Individual authorship: Doctor;<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />* Co-authorship: Master, being in co-authorship with a Doctor. If there are three or more authors, only one co-author must be a non-doctor with the aforementioned minimum degree (Master).<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />3) Footnote citation (author-date will be rejected without review);<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />4) Do not use Latin expressions on footnotes (id., ibid., op. cit, supra, note…). Repeat the whole reference and the referred pages.<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />5) Reference list at the end;<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />6) 15-25 pages, including the reference list at the end.<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Link: https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Important remarks:<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Only International Law and Comparative Law approaches will be considered. National or majorly national approaches won't be considered.<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />REVISTA DE DIREITO INTERNACIONAL<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Chamada para submissão<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Vol. 21 n. 2 2024<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Prazo para inscrições: 1º de junho de 2024<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Dossiê Especial<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />A Revista de Direito Internacional abre inscrições para um dossiê especial sobre “Direito Alimentar Internacional” a ser publicado em outubro de 2024. O número será editado pelos professores Marcílio Toscano Franca Filho (Universidade Federal da Paraíba) e Ardyllis Alves Soares (Centro Universitário de Brasília).<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />As relações entre alimento, sabor, gosto, paladar e direito são tão antigos quanto amplas. Há muitos séculos que as normas jurídicas cuidam de regular as nossas formas de comer, beber, produzir alimentos e consumi-los, nisso incluindo as regras sobre a proteção à saúde, rotulagem, demarcações geográficas, autenticidade, comércio internacional, segurança alimentar, direito humano à alimentação, religião (comidas kosher e halal) e patrimônio cultural gastronômico. O direito internacional privado, por seu turno, além de muitos tipos de contratos sobre a produção, o consumo e o transporte de alimentos, trata ainda do “dever de alimentos”. Na Europa e nos Estados Unidos, há tempos também já está bem estabelecido um ramo autônomo do Direito denominado Food Law (Direito da Alimentação), campo transdisciplinar localizado algures entre o Direito Econômico, o Direito Administrativo, o Direito Internacional e o Direito do Consumidor. Também importante mencionar organizações internacionais relacionadas a produtos específicos, como a “Association Internationale des Juristes pour le Droit de la Vigne et du Vin” (AIDV), fundada em 1985 com o objetivo de analisar as questões jurídicas relativas ao comércio internacional do vinho. Todas essas circunstâncias denotam a atualidade do debate sobre Direito & Alimentação e legitimam a produção de Dossiê sobre "Comida e Direito Internacional", na Revista de Direito Internacional, que poderia albergar textos de colegas brasileiros e estrangeiros sobre os seguintes temas:<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Direito Humano à Alimentação<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Segurança alimentar<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Rotulagem, riscos, precaução e rastreabilidade<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Novos Alimentos (insetos, flores, OGM etc.) e regulação internacional<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Propriedade Intelectual e alimentação<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- ESG e comércio internacional de alimentos<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Regulação internacional de determinados alimentos em espécie como açúcar, café, vinho, destilados e queijo<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Proteção internacional dos consumidores de alimentos<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- ODS e alimentação<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Mudanças climáticas e alimentos<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- A proteção dos animais<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Medidas sanitárias e fitossanitárias<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- As organizações internacionais com influência no setor agro-alimentar: FAO, UNESCO, OMS, Codex Alimentarius, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Aspectos formais (requisitos):<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />1) Os manuscritos deverão ser escritos em Times New Roman, tamanho 12, espaço entre linhas 1,0 em todo o manuscrito (incluindo todas as citações, notas finais e referências).<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />2)Titulação mínima:<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />* Autoria individual: Doutor;<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />* Coautoria: Mestre, estando em coautoria com um Doutor. Havendo três ou mais autores, apenas um co-autor deverá ser não-doutor com a titulação mínima acima mencionada (Mestre).<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />3) Citação em nota de rodapé (texto com citação autor-data serão rejeitados sem avaliação);<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />4) Não use expressões latinas em notas de rodapé (id., ibid., op. cit, supra, nota…). Repita as informações da referência e as páginas referidas.<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />5) Lista de referências no final;<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />6) 15-25 páginas, incluindo lista de referências no final.<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Link: https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi<br style="line-height: 1.5;" /><br style="line-height: 1.5;" />Importantes considerações:<br style="line-height: 1.5;" />- Somente abordagens de Direito Internacional e de Direito Comparado serão consideradas. Abordagens exclusivamente ou majoritariamente nacionais não serão consideradas.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-28815024688728148502024-02-02T09:39:00.005-05:002024-02-02T09:39:28.806-05:00Emerging Normativities: Hybrid Public Lecture Series on Law, Governance, and Digital Technologies, University of Westminster Law School From Daniela Gandorfer, Legal Scholar//Co-Director of LoPh//Founder of Code-X-Diagrams//Blockchain Gov Consultant
Westminster University School of Law<blockquote>
I am writing to invite you to 'Emerging Normativities,’ a hybrid Public Lecture Series on Law, Governance, and Digital Technologies, at University of Westminster L:aw School and in collaboration with LoPH+. </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote>
In a nutshell, we ask: What happens at the new governmental frontier and who is drafting the social digital contract?
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THE SERIES
As climate change is shifting the material and social conditions of existence on planet Earth, skepticism towards representative governmental structures and a desire for alternative economic models rise. This transformative shift unfolds amidst the ascendancy of authoritarian regimes and a surge in global conflicts. Concurrently, cutting-edge technologies like distributed ledgers, IoT, robotics, AI, and mixed reality are dismantling traditional political and legal paradigms.
This series dissect this intricate interplay shaping a novel governance frontier, both online and offline, often overlooked in mainstream discourse. It focuses on emerging tech-driven governance models - whether public or private, centralized or decentralized- driving fundamental shifts in legal and political theories through jurisdictional design, legal experimentation, and tech-democratization.
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FIRST SESSION: FEB 8th
Our first session, “Ground-Level Narratives: Digital Democracy (Taiwan) and Web3-City Prototyping (Zanzibar)," will take place on THU, Feb 8th, 2024, 2pm-4pm GMT, UG04 University of Westminster (Regent Street Campus)
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DETAILS:
You find the Zoom link on the poster.
More information and posters also <a href="https://www.lo-ph.agency/emerging_normativities" target="_blank">here. </a></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote>PLEA
I would be grateful if you could share the invite with your network, friends, and colleagues, siblings, political opponents, unbearable neighbor, beloved critics, and tech-enthusiasts, perhaps your your digital pets. </blockquote><p><br /></p><p> </p><blockquote>
Best wishes,
Daniela
</blockquote>Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-71371802790128027512024-02-01T14:28:00.001-05:002024-02-01T14:28:54.237-05:00Waller on Antitrust and Pop Culture: The Sequel @LoyolaLaw Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, has published <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4598117&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law%3Aculture%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">Antitrust and Pop Culture: The Sequel</a> at 37 Antitrust 53 (Summer 2023). Here is the abstract.
<blockquote>Every pop culture success receives the inevitable sequel. In spring 2022, I published A Pop Culture Guide to Antitrust showing how antitrust is depicted in the movies, on stage, in pop music, fiction, true crime, and on television and streaming services. Since 2022, the connection between antitrust and pop culture has only grown in importance.
Note: Copyright 2023 American Bar Association. Reproduced by permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or downloaded or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.
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See also <a href="https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/pdfs/a-pop-culture-guide-to-antitrust.pdf" target="_blank">A Pop Culture Guide to Antitrust.</a>Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-53265385143690329492024-01-31T20:39:00.000-05:002024-01-31T20:39:14.031-05:00Frampton on The First Black Jurors and the Integration of the American Jury @TFrampton @UVALaw @nyulawreviewThomas Frampton, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562373&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal%3Ahistory%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">The First Black Jurors and the Integration of the American Jury</a> in the New York University Law Review for 2024. Here is the abstract.
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Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like Strauder v. West Virginia (1880). Legal scholars and historians unanimously report that free people of color did not serve as jurors, in either the North or South, until 1860. In fact, this Article shows, Black men served as jurors in antebellum America decades earlier than anyone has previously realized. While instances of early Black jury service were rare, campaigns insisting upon Black citizens’ admission to the jury-box were not. From the late 1830s onward, Black activists across the country organized to abolish the all-white jury. They faced, and occasionally overcame, staunch resistance. This Article uses jury lists, court records, convention minutes, diaries, bills of sale, tax rolls, and other overlooked primary sources to recover these forgotten efforts, led by activists who understood the jury-box to be both a marker and maker of citizenship. A broader historical perspective—one that centers Black activists in the decades before the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868—offers a new way of thinking about the relationship between race, rights, citizenship, and the jury.
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Download the article from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-32144454855760826562024-01-29T23:11:00.003-05:002024-01-29T23:11:21.060-05:00Ollikainen-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 <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4647272&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_max%3Aplanck%3Alawcast_abstractlink" target="_blank">Law as a Means of Communicating Colonial Control in India,</a> as Max Planck Lawcast, Episode 8. Here is the abstract.
<blockquote>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 of the British Empire are the ideas, laws, and symbols which Britain transplanted to their colonies, some of which remain to this day. One such case in point is India, where the British colonial presence and the nature of Britain’s priorities shifted over time. By viewing the law from the perspective of communication, we can see how colonial legal culture and the way in which it was used as a tool for control in India also changed</blockquote>.
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Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-84815755221972435692024-01-26T15:53:00.001-05:002024-01-26T15:53:02.934-05:00Teaching Materials on Comics, From Nick Sousanis @nsousanis on all the socials fwiw @SFSU<p>Newly available from Nick Sousanis:</p><p>Wonderful materials on how to make and use comics in the classroom at <a href="https://spinweaveandcut.com/education-home/" target="_blank">Spin, Weave, and Cut.</a></p><p>Nick is a professor at San Francisco State University and the author of the brilliant Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015). </p>Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-57466551057941016432024-01-24T21:06:00.005-05:002024-02-08T16:56:20.360-05:00Davies on A Stout Stanza of Many Meanings, Maybe: The Romantic Roots of Some Buried Caesar @GB2d @horacefuller @georgemasonlawRoss E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag, has published <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4620542&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law%3Aliterature%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">A Stout Stanza of Many Meanings, Maybe: The Romantic Roots of Some Buried Caesar</a> at 25 The Gazette, a Journal of Detective Fiction 4 (Autumn 2023).
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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 did the title for this story come from? Second, the answers: (a) Stout’s familiarity (during an early romance) with the bloody yet bucolic lines from a famous poem — Omar Khayyam’s Rubáiyát — made the titling of a bloody murder mystery with a romantic plot thread in a bucolic setting easy, and (b) the Rubáiyát was connected in Stout’s mind not only with fine poetic lines about bloodshed and bucolics, but also with fraud, which was also a plot thread in Some Buried Caesar.
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Download the article from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-51398812163217464212024-01-23T15:19:00.007-05:002024-01-23T15:24:49.943-05:00Call For Participation, 2024 European Society for the Study of English Conference: Panel: What Do the Humanities Have to Say to Law? @Greta_Olson_<p> Call for participation: <span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://wp.unil.ch/esse2024/" target="_blank">The 2024 European Society for the Study of English conference.</a></span></p><p><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">The conference will take place at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 26-30 August 2024. <a href="https://wp.unil.ch/esse2024/calls-for-participation/" target="_blank">Calls for participation still include call for individual papers and posters and participation in the doctoral symposium. Both close January 31, 2024. </a></span></p><p>Seminar 56, convened by Professors Greta Olson (<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">University of
Giessen, Germany) </span><span style="color: #0563c2; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">greta.olson@anglistik.uni-giessen.de, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Armelle Sabatier
(Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, France) </span><span style="color: #0563c2; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">armelle.sabatier@u-paris2.fr, and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Claire Wrobel
(Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, France), has the following subject:</span></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">What do the
Humanities have to say to Law?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CALL FOR SEMINAR
PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">For an in person
panel at the<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Seventeenth European
Society for the Study of English conference in Lausanne, Switzerland (26-30
August 2024)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="FR"><a href="https://wp.unil.ch/esse2024/"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://wp.unil.ch/esse2024/</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Seminar 56: What do the
Humanities have to say to Law? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">This seminar makes
the claim that the Humanities have a great deal to say to Law, legal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">training, and
critical legal theory. We investigate Law and Humanities research from the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">perspectives of legal
actors as well as scholars working in English Departments, located in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Continental Europe,
bringing their own literary and legal systemic traditions to common law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">and Anglophone legal
texts. The seminar investigates new directions in Law and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Humanities, including
– but not exclusively – how affect and metaphor theory change the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">primarily
narrative-based research that has dominated the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Please send 250-word
abstracts and a brief bio to all of the convenors before February 10th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"></span><p></p>Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-35401833877979802062024-01-22T14:18:00.004-05:002024-01-22T14:18:39.760-05:00Bahnson and Shreve on Legal Treatises and the Evolution of Civil Rights Case Law @DukeLawLibrary @DukeLawJane Bahnson and Wickliffe Shreve, both of Duke University School of Law, have published <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4626237&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal%3Ahistory%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">Legal Treatises and the Evolution of Civil Rights Case Law</a> as Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-68. Here is the abstract.
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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 conservative-leaning Justices. This paper discusses the use of treatises by the Supreme Court to support its decisions in civil rights cases.</blockquote>
Download the article from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15363376.post-6748589075065345982024-01-22T14:10:00.002-05:002024-01-22T14:10:33.019-05:00Zhang on The Private Law Influence of the Great Qing Code @ZhangTaisu @YaleLawSch @CambridgeUPTaisu Zhang, Yale Law School, has published <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4636757&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal%3Ahistory%3Aejournal_abstractlink" target="_blank">The Private Law Influence of the Great Qing Code</a> in The Making of the Chinese Civil Code 249-268 (Hao Jiang & Pietro Sirena eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023). Here is the abstract.
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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, from the symbolic value of codification itself. It argues that the answer to both questions is likely “yes,” at least in the context of Qing Dynasty private law. This contains potentially generalizable insights into the nature of legal authority and prestige, some of which may potentially be applied to the recent passage of the Chinese Civil Code in 2020.</blockquote>
Download the essay from SSRN at the link.Christine Corcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10763148026303072185noreply@blogger.com0