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A Slave's Marriage: Dowry Or Deposit, Alan Watson
A Slave's Marriage: Dowry Or Deposit, Alan Watson
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This articles examines the concept of dowry among marriage of slaves in ancient Rome.
Reactions To Opression: Jurisgenesis In The Jurispathic State, John Valery White
Reactions To Opression: Jurisgenesis In The Jurispathic State, John Valery White
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This Note offers a model for analyzing the political and legal traditions of oppressed communities and developing a jurisprudence that accurately reflects the communities' views. Under this model, each of these diverse views can be understood from one of four perspectives: parochialism, fatalism, neo-liberalism, and individualism. These four perspectives are defined by an oppressed community's members' aspirations for liberation. Different ideals of justice and liberation underlie each perspective. Though touching on some of the communities' sentiments, the examinations of scholars of color have thus far been largely piecemeal, overemphasizing certain views, unwittingly combining divergent views, or marginalizing and dismissing unpopular …