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Annual Conference on Law and Food: still time to Submit

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STILL TIME TO SUBMIT!  Juris Diversitas will accept submissions until the end of March. Contact Prof. Olivier Moréteau at moreteau@lsu.edu with any question.   JURIS DIVERSITAS 5 th  ANNUAL CONFERENCE July 10-12, 2017 Lyon, France In partnership with EM Lyon & Université Jean Moulin Law & Food La cuisine juridique The Theme: For its 5 th  Annual Conference, Juris Diversitas revisits its culinary origins, expressed in the logo. The links between law and food are as old as the concept of law. Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome cared about access to water resources and food, whether it came to trade or protection. Since times immemorial, Bhutan makes sure every citizen has access to a minimal acreage of land to secure food for the family. Whilst religions multiplied food prohibitions and prescriptions, customs redistributed land, shared its occupancy in creative ways, or favored communal property so that everyone had access to food. Laws have multiplied to facilitate food trade, se

Law & Literature on 'Legal Bodies'

Special Issue - Legal Bodies: Corpus/Persona/Communitas We are pleased to offer you free access* to the latest Special issue from Law & Literature on 'Legal Bodies'.  Read the Special Issue here. Law & Literature  is the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts. This issue investigates the way literary and artistic texts interrogate the notion of 'personhood', focussing on both historical and contemporary (re-) conceptualizations of the notion within the domain of law. Articles include:  “Sua cuique persona?” A Note on the Fiction of Legal Personhood and a Reflection on Interdisciplinary Consequences  Jeanne Gaakeer Braying Howling, Growling for Justice: Animal Personhood in Law, Literature, and Cinema   Yasco Horsman The Turn to Passion: Has Law and Literature become Law and Affect?   Greta Olson Corpus Juris, Habeas Corpus, and the “Corporeal Turn” in the Humanities   Mart