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| Posted: 12 Mar 2013 03:48 PM PDT Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest Univesrity School of Law, has published Let's Skill All the Lawyers: Shakespearean Lessons on the Nature of Law, at 11 Vera Lex 33 (2010). Here is the abstract. Shakespeare's works present intriguing explorations of law and legal theory. They help demonstrate the flaws in command-theory positivism, natural law theory and prediction theory accounts of the law. |
This is a simultaneously-published abbreviated version of a longer article published in Acta Iuridica Olomucensia in 2010.Download the article from SSRN at the link. 
Posted: 12 Mar 2013 03:41 PM PDT
Brian Christopher Jones sends me this post from the blog Misleading Law of the Week. It discusses the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act, 1997. Dr. Jones points out that the name of the Act recalls the title of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic work Crime and Punishment. Notes Dr. Jones:
When Fyodor Dostoyevsky penned his classic text Crime and Punishment in 1866, he probably never thought that its title would be attached to pieces of legislation or be so culturally prevalent. Over a century later, however, the Westminster Parliament enacted the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997, thus inscribing the provocative name of the author's novel into the UK statute book. While the phrase "crime and punishment" has become ubiquitous in popular culture throughout the years, placing it as the title of an official piece of legislation is much different than putting the label on a video game or as the title to a Dawson's Creek episode...or, so it would seem.
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