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Weegee's Works

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:38 PM PST

James Polchin on the photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig) and his images of crime, currently on view in a retrospective, Weegee: Murder Is My Business, at the International Center of Photography, New York through September 2.

Hunny Bun?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:20 PM PST

From the Smithsonian Magazine, a reassessment of Attila the Hun that suggests that he wasn't, well, all that bad. Maybe he just needed a good press agent.

Habeas Corpus In Georgia

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 09:43 AM PST

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., University of Georgia Law School, has published From Oglethorpe to the Overthrow of the Confederacy: Habeas Corpus in Georgia, 1733-1865 at 45 Georgia Law Review 1015 (2011). Here is the abstract.



This Article will provide, for the first time, a comprehensive account of the writ of habeas corpus in Georgia not primarily focused on use of the writ as a postconviction remedy.
The Article covers the 132-year period stretching from 1733, when the Georgia colony was established, to 1865, when the Confederate States of America was finally defeated and the American Civil War came to a close.Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Law, Crime, and the Victorian Poor

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 09:40 AM PST

Rebecaa Probert, University of Warwick School of Law, has published 'A Banbury Story: Cohabitation and Marriage Among the Victorian Poor in Notorious Neithrop' as Warwick School of Law Research Paper No. 2012/01. Here is the abstract.


The parish of Neithrop, now a suburb of Banbury, was known in the nineteenth century as a place 'inhabited by the poor and persons of bad character' and, according to the demographer Peter Laslett, was an area 'notorious' for non-marital arrangements. Drawn to investigate further by the tragic story of Susan Owen, allegedly murdered by the man she was living, 'Badger' Willson, and by the suggestion that five out of a row of eight houses were inhabited by cohabiting couples, I discovered a very different picture. Not only did it turn out that neither of these specific claims was true, but the high rate of marriage among Neithrop couples also cast doubt on the widespread assumption that cohabitation was common among the Victorian poor.
Download the paper from SSRN at the link.

Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:45 AM PST

Google honors Charles Dickens today, with a Google Doodle devoted to him. The celebrated writer was born 200 years ago today, February 7, 1812. Below: a short and highly selective bibliography on Dickens and the law.


Markey, Maureen E., Mr. Tulkinghorn as a Successful Literary Lawyer, 14 St. Thomas L. Rev. 689 (2002).

McChrystal, Michael K., At the Foot of the Master: What Charles Dickens Got Right About What Lawyers Do Wrong, 78 Or. L. Rev. 393 (1999).

Osborn, John J., Bleak House: Narratives in Literature and Law School, 52 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 339 (2007).

Schramm, Jan-Melissa, Dickens and the Law, in A Companion to Charles Dickens 277-293 (David Paroissien, ed., Wiley, 2008).

Wertheim, Larry M., Dickens' Lesser Lawyers, 46 S. D. L. Rev. 695 (2001).


See also

Corcos, Christine A., An International Guide to Law and Literature Studies (Hein, 2000). Sections on Dickens and his works.

Papke, David R., Law and Literature: A Comment and Bibliography of Secondary Works, 73 Law Libr. J. 421 (1980). Section on Dickens.

(Dan) Solove's Law and Humanities Institute Bibliography About Specific Writers: Dickens Page

A Death In the Dark

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:12 AM PST

After they extinguished the flames, firefighters found the body of Anthony Horton, a subway artist, and the co-author of Pitch Black. More here from the New York Times, here from NBC New York.
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