...Emily Calhoun Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 T he beyond the Pale: S u prem e C ourt O pinion in R ig h t s D i s p u t e s ' E m ily C a lh o u n Supreme Court opinions in constitutional rights disputes tell us who and what actions belong inside (or outside) our...

... of Arizona and New Mexico. At the highly publicized trial that followed, it came to light that the evidence Reavis had presented to the court to prove the existence of the Peralta Land Grant and his wife’s title to it was forged. This essay uses the trial transcript to recover the woman at the center...

... in the idea of the “medieval” to rationalize “white possessive logics” (Moreton-Robinson, White Possessive ). It explores medievalisms in legal, mainstream, and academic contexts that focus on Indigenous land rights and law in the Australian settler-colonial state. It examines the High Court of Australia’s...

... in Restoration England, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is inevitably evoked as a representative figure, THE lib­ ertine or THE rake: for Randolph Trumbach he is the most bril­ liant rake of the 1670s, Harold Weber considers him an ideal reflection of the libertinism current at the court of Charles II dur­...

... in court.3 These metaphors, almost always part o f "thick description" of the opening scene in a courtroom , are easily overlooked, but they shape a reader's perspective on the legal themes at work, and they invariably reach beyond the fiction in question to an under­ standing of the w orld at large.4...

... agistrates.2 The debate began as a set of ethical qualms about the crude, caricatured portrayal of criminals, but quickly developed into a m ultivalent legal dispute tha t led w riters to reconsider the position of police offices w ith in the court system , as well as the relationship between police w ork...

.... Generally speaking, courts, as places and institutions o f law, exercise jurisdiction; as jurisdictions they constitute an authority of proper and lawful powers. Such authority is lawful and speaks the truth vis-avis those subject to jurisdiction; those subject to lawful authority fall w ithin its...

... and Stephens's ship] were charges brought against the officers for killing a young, dying sea­ man. These charges were brought only because the officers stated publicly that no lottery had been held."13 Further, in some instances, courts sim ply did not have jurisdiction over "crim e s" that occurred outside...

... conscientious, civic associa­ tions: O n the N orth side o f this streete is the Guild Hall, w herein the courts fo r the citty be kept, namely, I. the court o f com m on counsaile, 2. T h e co u rt o f the Lord Mayor and his B rethren the A lderm en, 3. T he C ourt o f Hustinges, 4. T he court o f O rphanes, 5...

... hen Lear announces that France and Bur­ gundy Long in o u r court have m ade th eir am orous sojourn (I.i.46), the prim ary m eaning o f co u rt is unmistakably th at of the household of the king, but it may also rem ind us that the structuring of the scene does indeed pit France and Burgundy...

..., the Venetian court demands, must be merciful. But this is an impossible demand. As Portia admits, mercy "is an attribute to God himself"(4.1.190). W hat the Venetians demand from Shylock, w hat the "C hristians" seek from the "Jew," is what Jacques Derrida identifies as the impossible, the gift.4 As Lisa...

... hat occurs on one's ow n turf, lawyers think about the power of tu rf in term s of jurisdiction, and lawyers know that ju ris­ diction is power. In particular, jurisdiction is the power of some part of the governm ent (a court, the police) to command and enforce obedience to its law and its orders...

... to countries enlisting child soldiers Into the ranks o f th e ir arm ed forces and then sent 100 United States Special Forces to assist the U gandan g overnm ent in its persistent, if aberrant, pursuit o f the Lord's Resistance A rm y (LRA) leader and In te rn a tio n a l C rim inal Court (ICC) indictee...

...Figure 5. Norwich and Chester Consistory Court cases involving any mention of intoxicants, drunkenness, and drunkard , 1570s–1740s. ...

...Núria Silleras-Fernández Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 Mystical traditions are not apolitical. In this context, I understand medieval politics in a broad sense, encompassing policies of the church (secular and regular) and the monarchy (government and court...

... to mean­ ingfully regulate a system of relocation from ghettos to jails.16Then as now, though for more English Language Notes 48.2 Fall / W inter 2010 38 E n g lish La n g u a g e N o tes 4 8 .2 Fall / W inter 2 0 1 0 practical and explicit reasons than those invoked by Foucault, it was "the court...

... of political leadership, represented by the Ottoman sultan and his court, and the sphere of religio-mystical leadership, which was preoccupied solely with obedience to God and his worldly representative, the mystical Sufi shaykh. Attempts to blur the line between these “two sultans” by representatives of one...

... with the established ecclesiastical authorities. The problem is made more complex by the question itself: Does mysticism have a politics? What were Byzantine politics? Politics may be much easier to define or identify: court factions, attempted coups, banishments and exiles—there are numerous cases. The Byzantines...

... else, or a moving authorship) was himself (themselves) in some doubt as to what the true message should be. If several generations of scholarship can be trusted, Piers has no precise thesis that could hold up in court the will that is no will, the Pardon that is no Pardon, the unsettled apparent...