...John Q. Stilwell Paul Raffield, Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558 – 1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 304 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE...

... of sublimation for the ethical subject: the subject needs protection from a too moralistic super ego, one willing to destroy both subject and other in its reverence of the law. Seeking to head off both the ontological and phenomeno- logical approaches to both subject and world...

...Michael P. Steinberg This essay portrays the “law of the good neighbor” as the principle of the Warburg Library's collections — as the argument for their expansion and coherence, as well as the principle governing the scholarly practice inspired by the Warburg Institute and “Warburg school...

...Peter T. Leeson Chartier Gary , Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 416 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...John Q. Stilwell Bybee Keith , All Judges Are Political Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 ), 192 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Stanley N. Katz Christian Joerges and Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, eds., Darker Legacies of Law in Europe: The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and Its Legal Traditions (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2003), 416 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S...

..., is reevaluated with the purpose of limiting the potential of religious law to justify acts of violence. This reevaluation is founded upon an implicit critique of the “liberal” strategies that have sought to control the dangerous potential of religious law. The author proposes an irenic understanding...

...William M. Chace Spoo Robert , Modernism and the Law ( London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2019 ), 196 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 3 5 8 Robert Spoo, Modernism and the Law (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), 196 pp. Literary...

...David Bellos [email protected] Jason Mazzone , Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 ), 311 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Copy right gives creators a monopoly on most uses...

...Lorraine Daston Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise, eds., Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 287 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story...

...John Law; Geir Afdal; Kristin Asdal; Wen-yuan Lin; Ingunn Moser; Vicky Singleton In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies,” the authors, all of whom work in the field of science, technology, and society, begin from the assumption that, as Bruno Latour has put it, “we...

... is them.” book The whowronged had those harming “by oflitigants purpose the toserve continuing ofaction” “new forms the same; muchthe remained passions for old urges.” Human channels “fresh offered aggrieved—now the toby resorted readily was law common the England, In sum...

...Aidan O'Neill The question posed in this article is whether Catholics can fully, unreservedly, and conscientiously carry out their duties as citizens and as holders of their various public offices (legislative, judicial and executive) of the State, in accordance with the laws and constitution...

... for self-interested reasons. Many doctrines of administrative law follow from aversion to favoritism, as the law aspires to free the administrative state from decision-making that is based on the interests of administrators and their partisan overseers or friends. Today, as the state comes under increasing...

... in the arts by drawing out its implications for the interpretation of publicly consequential texts (such as constitutions, legal statutes, and canon law). Arguing that judges and clerics could learn much from studying the work of Philip Gossett and other practitioners of textual criticism in the arts...

... functioned as a set of rules and rights—and legal entitlements and disabilities are a primary source of meaning for racial categories. The law provides a starting point for understanding how there could be so much consensus regarding such a blur. Legal decision making is itself a process that blurs what...

...Colin Richmond This Common Knowledge guest column is a partly comical, partly biographical speculation on how Anthony Woodville, brother-in-law of King Edward IV, passed the time while being held under guard at the “Newe Inn” Norwich, from August 20 to 25, 1469. © 2017 by Duke University Press...

..., and the law had not yet entered every corner of daily life. There was, moreover, no clerical class at the time to correct heresiarchs on the fringes of the empire. Hence, according to the reviewer, one can easily imagine the situation as Crone does, with the truths of the new faith, in the eastern extremities...

...Carlo Ginzburg The author describes his research experience in the 1960s, as an apprentice historian, in the Warburg Library. His work on witchcraft trials in early modern Italy, he argues, was deeply affected by the Library's unique character. Aby Warburg's law of the “good neighbour” (the book we...