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Coping with Precarity: The Role of Law in Vietnam

Tu Phuong Nguyen This book investigates the paradoxical effects of law on the survival strategies of Vietnamese workers and residents who are caught to live and work in uncertain and sometimes desperate...

Tu Phuong Nguyen, | 1 Mar 2023

What Obligations Do We Owe Our Future Selves in Biomedical Research?

The inspiration for this blog, the fourth in a series drawing on contributions to the festschrift Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie published by Cambridge University...

Graeme Laurie | 1 Mar 2023

Does brain development rely on verbal interaction?

It is commonly known that our brain abilities, including reasoning, memory, imagination, and attention, are shaped by the social world. We absorb ways of thinking, behaving, and learning through exposure...

Dat Bao | 28 Feb 2023

Jawdat Said on Individuality, Rationality, and Democracy By Line Khatib

The Middle East region has lost in 2022 one of its most inspirational and dedicated thinkers to the quest of freedom, liberal democracy, and individual rights, Shaykh Jawdat Said (1931-2022). Jawdat...

Line Khatib | 28 Feb 2023

Guns and Domestic Violence: Why Federal Laws Fail to Keep Women Safe

Tausha Haight, her five children and her mother were all shot to death in January 2023 by her husband, whom she had filed for divorce from just weeks earlier, and who had been investigated for child...

Kaitlin Sidorsky, Wendy J. Schiller | 27 Feb 2023

What is new with the Australian Novel?

The impetus for us editing this volume came from two sources. One was the sense that Elizabeth Webby’s The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2001), a fine work for its era, needed updating,...

Nicholas Birns | 27 Feb 2023

How Intelligence Becomes Policy

For four decades now, historians have lamented intelligence as the “missing dimension” of diplomatic history and international relations, the lack of relevance afforded “long-term intelligence experience...

Susan McCall Perlman | 27 Feb 2023

Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth-Century

“What is there new to say about nineteenth-century Haydn and Mozart reception?” a musically-inclined friend asked me, with a glint in his eye, when I mentioned my book a few years ago.  I started...

Simon P. Keefe | 23 Feb 2023

“More easily recognised than described…”
Struggles with the meanings and value of privacy in a moral community

This blog is the third in a series of five posts that reflect on contributions made to the festschrift Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie, published by Cambridge...

Graeme Laurie | 23 Feb 2023

Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid

A few years ago after finishing a study about the collecting of wild animal skins in Victorian Britain, I felt disturbingly empty—perhaps even a bit lost. I wondered what now could offer me a sense...

Ann C. Colley | 21 Feb 2023

The act of becoming – Law, liminality and legacy in an academic career

What do we hope to become in a career or over multiple careers in a lifetime? What do we want to be known for? What mark do we aspire to make, however large or small? Who, if anyone, do we seek to inspire? In...

Graeme Laurie | 21 Feb 2023

A LONG DELAYED NEW EDITION

I was 31 years old — or as it now seems, young —when my first book appeared in May 1972. Half a century later a second edition of The Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640,...

Wilfrid R. Prest | 20 Feb 2023