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Sci fi and law

Posted on May 17, 2008
New fun project: legal issues in sci-fi novels and films. American sci-fi in particular is quite heavy on legal issues - Star Trek on international/interplanetary law, for example.We could also highlight Robert A. Heinlein's Between Planets (1951) on laws about nationality /planetary allegiance, and the secession of a new Republic of Venus from the imperial Federation...

Old views of future trials

Posted on May 09, 2008
In spare evenings, I am getting through the DVDs of 1960s fantasy/sci-fi/thriller The Prisoner. There's a general legal theme, obviously, with our hero, Number 6, kidnapped and incarcerated in The Village, an apparently pleasant, if highly regulated, society with underlying police state/totalitarian organisation...

Legal History of Stripes

Posted on May 06, 2008
The stripe, 'ray', or fabric which is 'parti-coloured' has been used to communicate a number of different status messages. The ...

In Which We Servitude

Posted on March 28, 2008
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Oath no you don't

Posted on March 12, 2008
Lord Goldsmith is, it seems, proposing that schoolchildren swear allegiance to the Queen as part of the whole ?Britishness? drive. ...

Something nasty in the woodshed?

Posted on March 03, 2008
The legal historian?s heart is warmed by the very antiquarian charm of R v Cockburn (2008) LTL 29/2/2008 [2008] EWCA ...

Gratuitous bog-standard doggerel

Posted on February 29, 2008
OK, so it's gratuitous and non-legal, but the Common (as muck) Lawyer blog is granting political asylum to the following neo-sonnet which would otherwise be unlikely to see the light of day. See what a boon the internet is to those with literary pretensions and unfashionable political ideas...

Marching On

Posted on February 21, 2008
There is some very interesting legal historical content in the case concerning rights over land and river bed in the ...

Gratuitous rap cartoon

Posted on February 19, 2008
Kanye West Country Cartoon

Yee ?ha for the Lancashire police posse

Posted on February 13, 2008
There?s a rather exciting case report today, of the Lancashire police behaving like something out of the Wild West (or ...

The Wit System

Posted on January 28, 2008
Law academics ? or is it just British ones? ? seem to be very fond of the punning title for ...

'Pop on Trial' on trial

Posted on January 26, 2008
Yes, it?s infinite regress time, folks. BBC 4 has been having a bit of a ?Pop? theme lately, with a ...

Political Footballs, the Death of Principle, and the Public Benefit of Private Schools

Posted on January 17, 2008
Political Footballs, the Death of Principle, and the Public Benefit of Private SchoolsThere is much disquiet amongst those involved ...

More Middle Earth Jurisprudence

Posted on January 10, 2008
More Middle Earth Jurisprudence: thoughts on J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit (4 ed repr 1995, first published 1937).I?m listening ...

You've got to have faith (schools)

Posted on January 07, 2008
On 3/1?s Lawtel, there was a list of acts designating as schools having a religious character such otherwise-apparently-not-obviously-religious institutions as ...

Cosmetic alteration of the truth

Posted on January 07, 2008
Consumer magazine Which? has discovered that those involved in the plastic surgery industry are sometimes found to have their pants ...

Pardons for witches

Posted on January 07, 2008
There is an interesting legal historical development in Scotland, where the Parliament is being asked to consider pardons for those ...

Titles and forelock-tugging

Posted on January 07, 2008
IN today's Guardian (p.14) regular law correspondent Marcel Berlins makes fun of the daftness of judicial titles in England and ...

Review: McLynn, Lionheart and Lackland

Posted on January 03, 2008
The Very Late ReviewFrank McLynn, Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest (2006) ...

(Ma)sonic the Hedgehog

Posted on December 19, 2007
...or indeed Super Mario Brother(hood)I was deeply unimpressed (from my left-liberal anti-secret society and men-only aproned silliness standpoint) to ...

Inquest on an inquest

Posted on December 18, 2007
Diana InquestEvery day, at the moment, it seems that there is a new titbit of information on the news ...

Quem Pastores Law-davere

Posted on December 17, 2007
Festive JurisprudenceI did a quick search for old cases with festive resonances, but there were, I?m afraid, slim pickings. ...

Hello, Sailors

Posted on December 16, 2007
I was looking up something relating to admiralty law today, and got sidetracked by the splendour and daftness of ship ...

Tut tut, it's been a while

Posted on December 16, 2007
OK, not really law-like, but the Dynasty just went to the Tutankhamun exhibition, so here is myEgyptian Top 10...

Jehovah's Witless

Posted on November 05, 2007
It?s not often that the (formerly soaraway) Sun has a front page of CommonLawyer interest, but today, I saw in the newsagent?s that it had something on the story of a young Jehovah?s Witness mother who had refused a life-saving blood transfusion after giving birth to twins...

The Legal history of the Lord of the Rings

Posted on October 25, 2007
The Legal history of the Lord of the Rings(With which I stake my claim to a high place in ...

Mammon and the Pastor

Posted on October 22, 2007
Mammon and the PastorNew Testament Church of God v Sylvester Stewart [2007] EWCA Civ 1004 This recent case concerns employment law, and its application to the role of ministers of religion. As is often the case with matters theological, as many questions are raised by it as are resolved...

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