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DESCRIPTION:A Law & Anthropology public lecture with Marianne Constable\, U
 niversity of California\, Berkeley. RSVP to constableatmcgill [at] gmail [
 dot] com by November 6\, 2015.\n\nThe event was accredited for 2 hours of 
 continuing legal education with the Barreau du Québec (no. 10104747).\n\nA
 bstract\n\nBetween 1866 and 1931\, over 250 women in Chicago killed their 
 partners\, but all-male coroner’s juries\, grand juries and petit juries e
 xonerated most women under a 'new unwritten law'. Marianne Constable unear
 ths the stories of some of these women\, and explores the various possible
  meanings of this new unwritten law\, among them self-defense\, temporary 
 insanity\, and battered woman syndrome. Her research investigates the ways
  in which history and law privilege writing as sources\, evidence and auth
 ority\, and it analyzes the turn-of-the-century emergence of an account of
  law based on social\, statistical\, and psychological knowledge.  As a co
 ntribution to legal philosophy\, the project shows how claims about a new 
 unwritten law marked a period in which imperfect and incomplete understand
 ings of law came to be articulated through the formal speech acts that are
  now often taken - mistakenly - to be wholly determinative of law.\n\nAbou
 t the speaker\n\nMarianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the Univer
 sity of California\, Berkeley and author of The Law of the Other: The Mixe
 d Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship\, Law and Knowledge (winner
  of the Law & Society Association J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History)
 \; Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law\; and Our Wor
 d is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts (finalist for two Socio-Legal Studies
  Association (UK) book prizes).\n	 \n	Constable earned her B.A. in political
  science and philosophy\, her JD\, and her Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social
  Policy\, from University of California\, Berkeley.  As demonstrated throu
 gh her publications and service in sociology\, political science\, anthrop
 ology\, history\, literature\, and philosophy\, she is committed to the st
 udy of law in its broadest sense. She was a member of the Institute for Ad
 vanced Study in 2005-2006\, taught a short course on law and language at M
 elbourne University in 2012\, and was the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Anne
 nberg Fellow in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Beha
 vioral Sciences\, Stanford University in 2014-2015. She is the recipient o
 f numerous fellowships and awards\, including the James Boyd White Award f
 rom the Association for the Study of Law\, Culture and the Humanities (LCH
 ).\n\nOrganized by Professor Mark Antaki (51³Ô¹ÏÍøLaw) and Professor Kather
 ine Lemons (51³Ô¹ÏÍøAnthropology).\n\nSponsors: Crépeau Centre for Private 
 and Comparative Law\, Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Publ
 ic Policy\, Dean of Arts Development Fund\, Legal Theory Workshop\, Centre
  for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism\, Department of Anthropology\, Criti
 cal Social Theory\, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas.\n	 \n
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LOCATION:NCDH 312\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Husband-Killing in Chicago and the New Unwritten Law
URL:/channels/event/husband-killing-chicago-and-new-un
 written-law-255420
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