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Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2015

Trial By Combat in New York?

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A friend sent me this post by Eugene Volokh commenting on a colorful brief filed by Richard Luthmann, a Staten Island attorney. This parag...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

The Law of Pews

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I finally finished R.H. Helmholz's Roman Canon Law in Reformation England . While most of my friends have reacted to my reading this boo...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

An Early Version of Sexual Harassment Law in the Ecclesiastical Courts

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From R.H. Helmholz's Roman Canon Law in Reformation England , (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990), I learned about the process of ex officio ...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Criminal Punishment for the Theft of Virtual Items?

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From Erica Buist at  The Guardian : All right, own up: did you steal Mike Weatherley's sword on World of Warcraft ? If so, you'd ...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Guardian Article Either Poorly Written, Or Law School in England is Very Different from US

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I came across this article in the Guardian that gives advice to students in England who are planning to study law. The article is written f...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The Convicium Approach to Defamation

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Earlier, I blogged about a Yankee fan, Andrew Rector, who is suing ESPN and several announcers for defamation after they made remarks about...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Old School Judicial Activism in the Ecclesiastical Courts

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I recently got a copy of R.H. Helmholz's Roman Canon Law in Reformation England , and I have been reading in the brief intervals of spar...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Rogers on Historic Legal Treatment of Hair

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I came across an article entitled, Hair , by R. Vashon Rogers in The Green Bag. The citation is 16 Green Bag 326 (1904). I am unfortunately ...
Friday, January 24, 2014

New Canadian Regulations Threaten Importation and Sale of Irn Bru and Bovril

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The BBC reports : The owner of a British food shop in Canada says he has been ordered to stop selling Marmite, Ovaltine and Irn Bru becau...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Defamation in the English Ecclesiastical Courts

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Back in the day (from earlier than the 1200s  until the 1800s), a number of English cases were heard by ecclesiastical courts.  These courts...