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DESCRIPTION:A Law & Anthropology public lecture with Marianne Constable\, U
 niversity of California\, Berkeley. RSVP to constableatmcgill [at] gmail.c
 om by November 6\, 2015.\n\nThe event was accredited for 2 hours of contin
 uing legal education with the Barreau du Québec (no. 10104747).\n\nAbstrac
 t\n\nBetween 1866 and 1931\, over 250 women in Chicago killed their partne
 rs\, but all-male coroner’s juries\, grand juries and petit juries exonera
 ted most women under a 'new unwritten law'. Marianne Constable unearths th
 e stories of some of these women\, and explores the various possible meani
 ngs of this new unwritten law\, among them self-defense\, temporary insani
 ty\, and battered woman syndrome. Her research investigates the ways in wh
 ich history and law privilege writing as sources\, evidence and authority\
 , and it analyzes the turn-of-the-century emergence of an account of law b
 ased on social\, statistical\, and psychological knowledge.  As a contribu
 tion to legal philosophy\, the project shows how claims about a new unwrit
 ten law marked a period in which imperfect and incomplete understandings o
 f law came to be articulated through the formal speech acts that are now o
 ften taken - mistakenly - to be wholly determinative of law.\n\nAbout the 
 speaker\n\nMarianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University o
 f California\, Berkeley and author of The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury
  and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship\, Law and Knowledge (winner of th
 e Law & Society Association J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History)\; Jus
 t Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law\; and Our Word is O
 ur Bond: How Legal Speech Acts (finalist for two Socio-Legal Studies Assoc
 iation (UK) book prizes).\n	 \n	Constable earned her B.A. in political scien
 ce and philosophy\, her JD\, and her Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Polic
 y\, from University of California\, Berkeley.  As demonstrated through her
  publications and service in sociology\, political science\, anthropology\
 , history\, literature\, and philosophy\, she is committed to the study of
  law in its broadest sense. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced
  Study in 2005-2006\, taught a short course on law and language at Melbour
 ne University in 2012\, and was the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg 
 Fellow in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
  Sciences\, Stanford University in 2014-2015. She is the recipient of nume
 rous fellowships and awards\, including the James Boyd White Award from th
 e Association for the Study of Law\, Culture and the Humanities (LCH).\n\n
 Organized by Professor Mark Antaki (91ºÚÁÏÍø Law) and Professor Katherine Le
 mons (91ºÚÁÏÍø Anthropology).\n\nSponsors: Crépeau Centre for Private and Co
 mparative Law\, Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Pol
 icy\, Dean of Arts Development Fund\, Legal Theory Workshop\, Centre for H
 uman Rights and Legal Pluralism\, Department of Anthropology\, Critical So
 cial 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:/law/channels/event/husband-killing-chicago-and-ne
 w-unwritten-law-255420
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