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DESCRIPTION:Between 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\nMari
 anne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California\, 
 Berkeley and author of The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing C
 onceptions 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 Word is Our Bond: How Le
 gal Speech Acts (finalist for two Socio-Legal Studies Association book pri
 zes). Constable earned her B.A. in political science and philosophy\, her 
 JD\, and her Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Policy\, from University of C
 alifornia\, Berkeley.  As her publications and service in areas from socio
 logy and political science to anthropology and history to literature and p
 hilosophy attest\, she is committed to the study of law in its broadest se
 nse. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 2005-6\, taug
 ht a short course on law and language at Melbourne University in 2012\, an
 d was the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellow in Communication at
  the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, Stanford Unive
 rsity in 2014-2015. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and award
 s\, including the James Boyd White Award from the Association for the Stud
 y of Law\, Culture and the Humanities (LCH).\n
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LOCATION:CA\, New Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, 3644 Peel Stre
 et\, Room 312
SUMMARY:Husband-Killing in Chicago and the New Unwritten Law
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 ew-unwritten-law-255481
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