Stephen M. Maurer, ed.
Self-Governance in Science
Community-Based Strategies for Managing Dangerous Knowledge
Cambridge UP, 2017
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Commercial and academic communities use private rules to regulate everything from labor conditions to biological weapons. This self-governance is vital in the twenty-first century, where private science and technology networks cross so many borders…
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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
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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
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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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