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Monthly Archives: July 2009

“Boutique”

Friday, July 31, 2009

I’ve been going through, issue-by-issue, the major sociology journals since 1975 looking at the treatment of animal related themes. Needless to say, there isn’t much. I’ll post about this research later. Here’s a great passage I came across today: I don’t normally insert graphics of quotations, but I didn’t think anyone would believe me! And, [...]

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Boom-swim

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Mica’s first swim ever – apparently sometimes competition is a great motivator: there was no way she was letting that spaniel get her ball!

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Fall 2009/Winter 2010 Syllabi

Thursday, July 30, 2009

For those interested, I have posted the syllabi for my two courses: FYSM 1502 B Topics in Legal Studies: Animals, The Environment and the Law [pdf] FYSM 1502 P Topics in Legal Studies: State, Law and Violence [pdf] Both courses are first year seminars, meaning that enrollment is capped at thirty students in the B [...]

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CFP: Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Call for Participation:  13th Annual ASLCH Conference March 19-20, 2010 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistic legal scholarship.  The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence, [...]

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Revised To-Do List

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Having finally crossed off all the items on my previous to-do list, it is time to make a new: write the last two chapters of the dissertation (Mandeville; conclusion) find/select epigraph for Mandeville chapter finish course outlines for F09/W10 (“Animals, the Environment and Law” and “State, Law and Violence,” both first year seminars) hope that [...]

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Recent Animal Books

Saturday, July 18, 2009

A favourable review of Paolo Cavalieri’s Death of the Animal has been posted to NDPR. The review agrees with my assessment that the format of the dialogue itself is an unmitigated disaster – Xenophon and Plato were great writers; Cavalieri is not. I made a short post about the book a while back, which is [...]

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Remembering Minnie (July 5, 2007)

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Minnie

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