...Angela P. Harris The path of decolonization has always been difficult to walk, mazed as it is with contradictions and double binds, but the existential threat of climate change adds new urgency. This essay suggests that decolonial legal practice be organized around, not the struggle for new rights...

...María Alicia Gutiérrez This article charts the arguments, strategies, and struggles of the abortion rights movement in Argentina, with special attention to the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion. This heterogeneous coalition—widely recognized by its green kerchief...

... of resistance to border regimes. The article advocates the importance of reframing the demand for open borders as a call for freedom of those who challenge the pragmatic order of borders. A G A I N S T the D A Y Enrica Rigo Struggles for Freedom within and against the Legal Order at the Borders of Europe...

...John E. Semonche Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South . Edited by Bodenhamer David J. Ely James W. Jr. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 1984 . Pp. x , 270 . $20.00 (cloth); $8.95 (paper). Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book...

...Alpheus T. Mason Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The Legal Justification for Injunctions in Labor Disputes Alpheus T. Mason Trinity College At common law there were two remedies which might be invoked against an unlawful conspiracy on the part of laborers; it could be punished...

...Paul C. Palmer Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Servant into Slave: The Evolution of the Legal Status of the Negro Laborer in Colonial Virginia Pa ul C. Palmer The origin of chattel slavery in the British colonies of North Amer­ ica remains a subject of debate among American...

...J. G. DeR. Hamilton Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 The Removal of Legal and Political Disabilities, 1868 1898 J. G.By DeR. Hamilton The disabilities here alluded to were imposed during a period extending from 1862 to 1867. The first was in May, 1862, when the test oath...

...J. G. DeR. Hamilton Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 The Removal of Legal and Political Disabilities, 1868 1898, II By J. G. DeR. Hamilton. When the third session of the forty-first congress commenced it seemed as if definite action was about to be taken. Republican platforms...

...Robert Samuel Rogers Eternal Lawyer: A Legal Biography of Cicero . By Wilkin Robert N. . New York : The Macmillan Company . 1947 . Pp. xviii , 264 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly that such a work is worthy of permanent...

...William B. Hamilton The Court of Common Pleas in Fifteenth Century England: A Study of Legal Administration and Procedure . By Hastings Margaret . Ithaca : Cornell University Press, for The American Historical Association , 1947 . Pp. xviii , 302 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1949...

...John Hope Franklin Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 JIM CROW GOES TO SCHOOL: THE GENESIS OF LEGAL SEGREGATION IN SOUTHERN SCHOOLS John Hope Franklin A SURVEY of the history of the United States in the nineteenth century gives one the distinct impression that Jim Crow...

... : Klett-Cotta . Ian Hunter Religious Freedom in Early Modern Germany: Theology, Philosophy, and Legal Casuistry Introduction ​In 1586 Andreas Erstenberger, a Catholic secre- tary to the Reichshofrat (Aulic Council...

...Eithne Luibhéid “Illegal” status is commonly conceived as stemming from migrants' undesirable characters, yet recent scholarship has shown that “legal” and “illegal” statuses are created through political processes and relations of power that require critical scrutiny. This essay expands...

...Saki Bailey; Maria Edgarda Marcucci This essay explores the legal and political dimensions of the occupation of the Teatro Valle in Rome and the transformation of the theater into a common goods foundation. The theater workers, acting together as a social movement for the protection of cultural...

... as a source of an alternative legality (the law of the commons). But can law be appropriated and used as part of a more general project of radical transformation? What is the relationship between the law of the commons and Revolution? To think of these problematic issues one can revaluate the question...

...Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby The 2019 revolt in Chile touched and exposed the mythical violence involved in the establishment and preservation of political‐legal orders (Benjamin). The demand for the New Constitution and the (ineffective?) process of its elaboration could have been key moments...

...Cheryl Suzack This essay undertakes a cultural analysis of law and literature to analyze the relationship between the Supreme Court of Canada's reasoning in Delgamuukw and Eden Robinson's novel Monkey Beach . It shows how legal texts enact a foreclosure of social space by transforming human...

... contractors, excluded from economic security, and anointed as “essential workers,” these workers were both celebrated and disproportionately exposed to poverty, disease, and death. This essay makes sense of the legal and lived condition of being essentially dispossessed during this moment. The author argues...

..., emphasizing its contributions for thinking about progressive reform in highly conservative environments: the importance of taking advantage of political opportunities, the appropriation of legal reform, and incremental change. Three different moments are discussed: political mobilization and the construction...

...Maria Rosaria Marella Cities are quintessentially human and collective products. All urban space is the product of social cooperation. Therefore not just the “public” space but the metropolis as a whole must be considered as a commons. This assumption is not neutral from a legal point of view...