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Law Library Blog (September 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (September 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
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Protecting Defamatory Fiction And Reader-Response Theory With Emphasis On The German Experience, Henry Ordower
Protecting Defamatory Fiction And Reader-Response Theory With Emphasis On The German Experience, Henry Ordower
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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'Simple' Takes On The Supreme Court, Robert Tsai
'Simple' Takes On The Supreme Court, Robert Tsai
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This essay assesses black literature as a medium for working out popular understandings of America’s Constitution and laws. Starting in the 1940s, Langston Hughes’s fictional character, Jesse B. Semple, began appearing in the prominent black newspaper, the Chicago Defender. The figure affectionately known as “Simple” was undereducated, unsophisticated, and plain spoken - certainly to a fault according to prevailing standards of civility, race relations, and professional attainment. Butthese very traits, along with a gritty experience under Jim Crow, made him not only a sympathetic figure but also an armchair legal theorist. In a series of barroom conversations, Simple ably critiqued …
The Infliction Of Harm Through The Publication Of Fiction: Fashioning A Theory Of Liability, Paul A. Lebel
The Infliction Of Harm Through The Publication Of Fiction: Fashioning A Theory Of Liability, Paul A. Lebel
Faculty Publications
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