I lived principally in the country as a girl, and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque parts; but my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them; they were not so to…
Shaun McVeigh There is a lot to think with in Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law. On its surface it is a study of the ‘modernist’ moment of legal theory: it re-casts the canon and style of investigating legal and literary theory in order to address the modernist understanding of the nature of modernity,…
Shaun McVeigh Too little work in the field of law literature and humanities scholarship in Australasia is subject to review. So let me begin with a brief notice of Bill (William P) MacNeil’s Novel Judgements: Legal Theory as Fiction (2012). This book was published last year but it has not yet received anything like the…