Thomas Sikor, Stefan Dorondel, Johannes Stahl, and Phuc Xuan
When Things Become Property
Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia
Berghahn Books, 2017
Books ReceivedBooks Received: European StudiesBooks Received: Global EthicsBooks Received: HistoryBooks Received: LawBooks Received: PoliticsBooks Received: Public Policy April 19, 2017
Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral…
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Gregory Kneidel
John Donne and Early Modern Legal Culture
The End of Equity in the Satyres
Duquesne UP, 2015
Books ReceivedBooks Received: British StudiesBooks Received: Intellectual HistoryBooks Received: LawBooks Received: Literary Studies October 3, 2016
Though law and satire share essential elements both aim to correct individual vice, to promote justice, and to claim authority amid competing perspectives their commonality has gone largely unexplored by both legal theorists and literary critics. Gregory Kneidel, in this…
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