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Christopher Tomlins

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Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries: A Seminal Text In National And International Contexts, Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries: A Seminal Text In National And International Contexts, Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

Book review of Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries, edited by Wilfred Prest


Fierce And Critical Faith: A Remembrance Of Penny Pether, Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

Fierce And Critical Faith: A Remembrance Of Penny Pether, Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


Review Essay - The Consumption Of History In The Legal Academy: Science And Synthesis, Perils And Prospects, Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

Review Essay - The Consumption Of History In The Legal Academy: Science And Synthesis, Perils And Prospects, Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Nat Turner And The Rising In Southampton County Bu David F. Allmendinger Jr., Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

Book Review: Nat Turner And The Rising In Southampton County Bu David F. Allmendinger Jr., Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


Foreword: “Law As . . .” Iii—Glossolalia: Toward A Minor (Historical) Jurisprudence, Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

Foreword: “Law As . . .” Iii—Glossolalia: Toward A Minor (Historical) Jurisprudence, Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


Law And, Law In, Law As: The Definition, Rejection And Recuperation Of The Socio-Legal Enterprise, Christopher L. Tomlins Feb 2018

Law And, Law In, Law As: The Definition, Rejection And Recuperation Of The Socio-Legal Enterprise, Christopher L. Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

The critical moment in socio-legal studies that flowered in the United States and elsewhere between the mid-1970s and the early 1990s coincided with the maturation of the Legal Studies Department at Melbourne's LaTrobe University. During its two-decade span (1972-1994) La Trobe Legal Studies developed multidisciplinary critical and theoretical perspectives on law as substance, as professional practice, as field of academic inquiry to an extent and depth unrivalled in Australia or, with just a few exceptions, internationally. This essay charts the particular trajectory followed by one of those perspectives, legal history, both at La Trobe and in the wider world. Simultaneously, …


In This Issue , Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

In This Issue , Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


In This Issue , Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

In This Issue , Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

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Book Review Of The Inception Of Modern Professional Education: C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906, By Bruce A. Kimball, Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

Book Review Of The Inception Of Modern Professional Education: C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906, By Bruce A. Kimball, Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


The Confessions Of Nat Turner: A Paratextual Analysis, Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

The Confessions Of Nat Turner: A Paratextual Analysis, Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

This essay uses techniques advanced by the structuralist literary theorist Gerard Genette to examine the pamphlet, The Confessions of Nat Turner, written in the aftermath of the Turner slave rebellion (Southampton County, Virginia, August 1831). Like all documents generated in the course of master-class investigations of slave revolts - alleged or actual - The Confessions of Nat Turner raises obvious evidentiary quandaries: credibility, reliability, authenticity. Precisely what kind of historical source is this document? How should it be interrogated? What can it tell us? These questions become particularly important in light of controversies over the use of sources by historians …


Foreword: Law As...Iii - Glossolalia: Toward A Minor (Historical) Jurisprudence, Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

Foreword: Law As...Iii - Glossolalia: Toward A Minor (Historical) Jurisprudence, Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


In This Issue , Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

In This Issue , Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


The Presence And Absence Of Legal Mind: A Comment On Duncan Kennedy's Three Globalizations, Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

The Presence And Absence Of Legal Mind: A Comment On Duncan Kennedy's Three Globalizations, Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


The Heavy Burden Of The State: Revisiting The History Of Labor Law In The Interwar Period, Christopher L. Tomlins Feb 2018

The Heavy Burden Of The State: Revisiting The History Of Labor Law In The Interwar Period, Christopher L. Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


In This Issue , Christopher Tomlins Feb 2018

In This Issue , Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Rights V. Conspiracy: A Sociological Essay On The History Of Labour Law In The United States, Christopher L. Tomlins Feb 2018

Book Review: Rights V. Conspiracy: A Sociological Essay On The History Of Labour Law In The United States, Christopher L. Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Whose Law: What Order: Historicist Interventions In The War Against Crime, Christopher L. Tomlins Feb 2018

Book Review: Whose Law: What Order: Historicist Interventions In The War Against Crime, Christopher L. Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins

No abstract provided.