Peter Goodrich
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View article: <i>OCCURSUS</i> : An Introduction to My Ghosts
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The present occursus is a collection of amicable essays and a somewhat erumpent desire on my part both to escape and in doing so to thank those who have so generously and variously hobbled, impaled, expanded, dissected, tracked, uplifted, …
View article: Perpetuum mobile: colour, sound and motion
Perpetuum mobile: colour, sound and motion Open
The prison house of language, the penitentiary of print, as also the practices of precedent all encourage a degree of recidivism, of default repetition and so it not surprising that photograph and film are apprehended initially as being li…
View article: Jurisliterature and Transgression
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The jurisliterary profession is the curious enterprise of writing, as a jurist, about law. Many seek to escape into literature, philosophy, critique, psychoanalysis, the couch, but then, in the main, they have abandoned law. Those that per…
View article: Heretical Archives: Heterotopic Institutions and Fictive Records
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The archive is in significant part the melancholic record of death. It harbours coffins, tombs and tomes. An image, first, of an untimely death. Part of a personal archive, the record of time long since spent. Shards of a history that did …
View article: The Posthumous Life of the Postal Rule: Requiem and Revival of Adams v Lindsell
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This article authoritatively resolves the mystery of the mailbox rule. Using historical sources from several jurisdictions the author argues that the origin of the postal rule derives from early cases of breach of promise to marry. The off…
View article: Mos Americanus or Common Law in Partibus Infidelium
Mos Americanus or Common Law in Partibus Infidelium Open
The covert and uncertain visibility of affect defines the law of amity, the shadow realm of _lex amicitiae_, as elaborated most often by humanistic jurists in the course of mustering and defending their various doctrinal and disciplinary s…
View article: Putting on the Dog: On the Trail of Man’s Best Friend as Seen Through the Middle English Dictionary Online and the Middle English Canon
Putting on the Dog: On the Trail of Man’s Best Friend as Seen Through the Middle English Dictionary Online and the Middle English Canon Open
In recent years, a rich literature has arisen around the topic of animals in the European Middle Ages. Many pages of these studies are devoted to the domestic dog, which, along with its undomesticated counterparts the wolf and the fox, fig…