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Review of “Changing Fashions in Advocacy: 100 Years of Brief-Writing Advice”
Helen A. Anderson of the University of Washington School of Law brings us “Changing Fashions in Advocacy: 100 Years of Brief-Writing Advice.”
December 2010 / 3 min.
Science and Sociability in Mary Terrall’s The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment
For the enlightened of the mid-eighteenth century, the most fundamental aspect of their enlightenment was “sociability,” according to Mary Terrall in The Man Who Flattened the Earth.
November 2010 / 7 min.
Five useful blogging tools
Looking for some useful tools that can help enhance your blog and your blogging? Here’s a list of some of my favorites.
November 2010 / 3 min.
Thinking about theories of historiography
Recently, I’ve been struck by the sense that what seems to drive history as a profession is not specifically the investigation of new archives, new materials, new places, or new times, but rather simply the larger desire to always pursue what is new qua new.
November 2010 / 3 min.
A quick history of the changing lengths of copyright protection
Since its codification in Britain in 1710, the length of copyright protection has continued to be extended, from an initial 14 years to today’s 70-120 or more years.
November 2010 / 4 min.
Considering comparative approaches in legal histories
I have proposed comparative/transnational approaches between legal and societal understandings of privacy in the face of new technologies. Micol Siegel’s work suggests that I should, at the very least, consider my approach more critically.
November 2010 / 3 min.
Going beyond national legal histories
“Lived history,” writes Bender, “is embedded in a plenitude of narratives. … [O]ver time, different themes or concepts, different narratives, will be deemed significant and emphasized” (page 1). The “plenitude of narratives” is formed by the stories historians tell about the past, by people at the time speaking and living their own experiences, by groups (ethnicities, races, classes, nations, cities) sharing common understandings, and is thus never simple nor unitary.
November 2010 / 3 min.
Changing technology, changing expectations of privacy
My goal here is to compare and contrast the legal changes that occurred as new technologies-state-run postal services, the telegraph, the telephone, and email, for example-emerged, and through this to seek insight into these larger questions.
November 2010 / 4 min.
Dorinda Outram on the Enlightenment
In her book The Enlightenment, Dorinda Outram gives a broad introduction to the history and historiography of the Enlightenment.
October 2010 / 8 min.
Technology and the archive
One of the primary interests of mine is the connection between technology and law. The development of archives is one place where this connection plays out in practice. This I am deeply interested in the question presented by Schwartz and Cook present as to what the impact of new technologies-like “postal services, the telegraph, the telephone, radio, photography”-was on “on the production, preservation, and use of records and archives since the mid-nineteenth century.”
October 2010 / 3 min.