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Thanks, Al - both for your kind words and for posting on the Dennis piece in the first place!
Let Whiskey Run Out Of His Mouth
Last week, Al posted about Andrea Dennis’ A Snitch In Time: An Historical Sketch of Black Informing During Slavery. Among other fascinating vignettes, Dennis offers an example of how slave owners used criminal law “to prevent other Whites from interfering with the owner’s interests.” In Harring...
Michelle - Thanks for sending this along! Remarkable on so many levels...
Audience-Oriented Wrongs
As I mentioned in my last post, one of the things that I've been thinking about lately is how law and scholarship are beginning to pay more attention to the importance of audience in various contexts. One interesting student note I encountered while researching this article identifies a categor...
Al, Howard - thanks for your comments! I hadn't thought about those examples in this context...intriguing!
Audience-Oriented Wrongs
As I mentioned in my last post, one of the things that I've been thinking about lately is how law and scholarship are beginning to pay more attention to the importance of audience in various contexts. One interesting student note I encountered while researching this article identifies a categor...
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