...David Delaney Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 H ome as N om ic S e ttin g : SEEING H o w THE LEGAL HAPPENS D avid D e la n e y Introduction W ith this essay I offer a way of thinking about the socio-legal and the socio-spatial not in term s of "re latin g" them...

...Doran Larson Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 P olitics by o t h e r M e a n s : Legal P oetics, P riso n N arrative Doran Larson T he prison inmate lives inside our collective, legalized w ill to induce pain and death. Prison writers are thus our permanent vanguard...

...Barbara Harlow Abstract Child soldiers have recently emerged as high-profile legal subjects, claimants with a set of rights all their own under international law, This same period has witnessed a proliferation of child soldier narratives in literary form. Through an analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa's 1985...

...Mia Carter Abstract Child soldiers have recently emerged as high-profile legal subjects, claimants with a set of rights all their own under international law, This same period has witnessed a proliferation of child soldier narratives in literary form. Through an analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa's 1985...

...Laura Winkiel Abstract Child soldiers have recently emerged as high-profile legal subjects, claimants with a set of rights all their own under international law, This same period has witnessed a proliferation of child soldier narratives in literary form. Through an analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa's 1985...

... 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...

...Richard Delgado; Jean Stefancic Abstract In the last few years, a number of literary scholars and not a few legal writers have pondered the disappearance of the self from both literary analysis and law. Is consciousness, the “I” of literature and litigation, receding in importance, and, if so...

..., facilitated by the very stone that had seemed to entrap her. Drawing on critical Indigenous studies, legal studies, and ecomaterialism, this essay concludes that both King Horn and “Yonec” offer a medieval British imaginary of lithic relational sovereignty that runs counter to teleological, naturalizing...

... of legality that rely on written documents. The essay concludes by arguing that teaching, service, and community outreach must be prioritized over publication as modes of professional activity more conducive to Indigenization’s political goals. Decolonizing medieval studies will require not only that we...

...Justin Desautels-Stein Abstract In the last few years, a number of literary scholars and not a few legal writers have pondered the disappearance of the self from both literary analysis and law. Is consciousness, the “I” of literature and litigation, receding in importance, and, if so, is self...

...Kevin Kopelson; Shane McCrae Abstract In the last few years, a number of literary scholars and not a few legal writers have pondered the disappearance of the self from both literary analysis and law. Is consciousness, the “I” of literature and litigation, receding in importance, and, if so, is self...

...Carl Gutiérrez-Jones Abstract In the last few years, a number of literary scholars and not a few legal writers have pondered the disappearance of the self from both literary analysis and law. Is consciousness, the “I” of literature and litigation, receding in importance, and, if so, is self...

...Marianne Constable Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 S peaking the La n g u a g e of La w : A J u r i s -d ic t io n a l P r im e r MARIANNE CONSTABLE U I uris-diction" concerns the speaking of la w by law and about law in a place 11 where legal speech is warranted...

... have circulated in the West at a tim e when a rights movement and a legal apparatus have grown up around the issue of child soldiering.This movement originates out of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), and has cul­ minated in passage of the Optional Protocol to the Convention...

...: Harms o f Indifference in the Supreme Court, w ill be published later this year, by Oxford University Press. Marianne Constable is professor of rhetoric at UC Berkeley where she also holds the Zaffaroni Family Chair in Undergraduate Education. She specializes in legal history and phi­ losophy and has...

.... It is a question of boundaries and relays. A m ediological Issue, which accompanies the supercession of the m ost obvious of legal borders, jurisdiction is conceived as a ju rid i­ cal competence over a territory, by the global possibilities and practices of satellite relay and the virtual domains of the Internet...

... dictio speech. I invoke the Latin etym ology of this crucial legal concept to highlight the connection between tw o of the three term s that concern us in this special issue of ELN language and the law. The law is made through and by language.The law is speech and, perhaps less obviously but no less...

... of a particular murder that had been committed, were unwilling to pass sentence on any one of their neighbors, but instead claimed that God had killed the man. And, after they had conducted legal proceedings, they out­ lawed God. And from this arose an opinion that neither God, nor any of his saints, either lived...

... of enthusiasm in the law and literature movement. He fam ously noted "there are better places to learn about law than novels," and the accuracy of the claim is still undeniable if one tries to learn about "the enforcement of a contract that contains a penalty clause" or any other specific legal application.1The...

.... . . . It is an analogy that im plies an identification between the legal and digestive systems, and so plays upon the image of the body politic."6 Citing Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, Kilgour highlights his description of "the legal sys­ tem as the civilized version o f cannibalism , the substitution of anthropem y...