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Kathryn D. Temple started the topic Exco Election: Temple in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Law and Humanities Colleagues,
I’m quite thrilled to have been nominated to the Exco this year and wanted to update you all a bit on my activities related to Law and the Humanities.
As some of you know, I’ve been publishing in this field since the early 90s. Currently I have essays forthcoming in ECTI (Wollstonecraft and legal subjectivity)…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited THE BALKAN HIGHER-EDUCATION EXPRESS in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoBalkan universities are in a hurry to beat Oxbridge and Ivy League universities. But, from their dire straits, can Balkan teachers afford the train ticket to compare and contrast? Therefore, in this paper we will talk about the situation in the higher education system in the Former Yugoslav countries which has lost its vigour and rigour with the…[Read more]
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Peter Leman started the topic Special Issue CFP: "Law and Literature from the Global South" in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South
Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)
Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): December 20, 2016
Website: jcpcsonline.com
Cont…[Read more]
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Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
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Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoDear all,
Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the panels that the Law and the Humanities Forum is sponsoring at MLA 2017. We are organizing one guaranteed session and two special (non-guaranteed) sessions this year:
1. Object Lessons in Personhood (Guaranteed Session)
10-minute papers on a single “thing.” How do theoretical issue…[Read more] -
Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Legal History Graduate Student Conference, Brown University (2/29/2016) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Legal History Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown UniversitySaturday April 23rd, 2016
at Brown University, Providence, Rhode IslandDeadline for submission: February 29th, 2016
Acceptance notification: March 7th, 2016The Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I’m running for a position on the executive committee of the Law and Humanities forum and wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I’m an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature and culture, law and literature, and the history of the novel. I’m curre…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Emerson's Bayonet" in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe essay reads Ralph Waldo Emerson’s argument for a “nation of friends,” in “Politics,” as Emerson’s response to his lament, also in “Politics,” that the “power of love, as the basis of the State, has never been tried.” By a careful reading of that essay, which includes locating “Politics” within the debate in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan be…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Adam Smith and the Rights of the Dead in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoAdam Smith closes the first chapter to Theory of Moral Sentiments, ‘Of Sympathy’, with a harmless enough assertion: ‘We sympathize even with the dead’. Death is not a topic that much interests Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments. With the exception of a few miscellaneous thoughts in the text, the one paragraph Smith devotes to it is the extent of…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini deposited The fictive persons of a serious poem: on Vico's anthropology of "literature" in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe present essay will explore legal areas of Giambattista Vico’s thought from a rhetorical and literary perspective. In particular, the essay will focus on the idea of «person» as it is investigated in De uno and New Science. The euristic quality of the notion of fictio iuris will be identified as generative core of the imaginative universal the…[Read more]
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Peter Leman started the topic Special Session Proposal on "Legal and Literary Persons" in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHi All,
I am proposing a special session on literary and legal approaches to personhood for the 2016 MLA in Austin. I’m hoping to receive a few more abstracts by March 15. Please see the CFP and description below. Thank you.
Best regards,
Peter Leman
CFP: Legal and Literary Persons
Personhood, personality, impersonation,…[Read more]
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Collin Jennings replied to the topic 2014 NEH Seminar: "The Meanings of Property" in the forum
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoREMINDER – 2014 NEH Summer Seminar – “The Meanings of Property” – Applications are due 3/5/2014.
Contact information: ann.davis@marist.edu
For further information and application instructions, see
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Collin Jennings started the topic 2014 NEH Seminar: "The Meanings of Property" in the forum
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHi all,
I want share this announcement for the National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 summer seminar on “The Meanings of Property” at Marist College. I am the research assistant for the seminar so feel free to contact me if you can any questions or just want to learn more about it.
Project Title: The Meanings of Property
Project…[Read more]
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Literature and Law on MLA Commons 13 years, 1 month ago
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