We’re All Infected: Legal Personhood, Bare Life and The Walking Dead

This article argues that greater theoretical attention should be paid to the figure of the zombie in the fields of law, cultural studies and philosophy. Using The Walking Dead as a point of critical departure concepts of legal personhood are interrogated in relation to permanent vegetative states, bare life and the notion of the third person. Ultimately, the paper recommends a rejection of personhood; instead favouring a legal and philosophical engagement with humanity and embodiment. Personhood, it is suggested, creates a barrier in law allowing individuals in certain contexts (and in certain embodied states) to be rendered non-persons and thus outside the scope of legal rights. An approach that rejects personhood in favour of embodiment would allow individuals to enjoy their rights without being subject to such discrimination. It is also suggested that the concept of the human, itself complicated by the figure of the zombie, allows for legal engagement with a greater number of putative rights claimants including admixed embryos, cyborgs and the zombie

Franchises lost and gained: post-coloniality and the development of women’s rights in Canada

The Canadian constitution is to some extent characterised by its focus on equality, and in particular gender equality. This development of women’s rights in Canada and the greater engagement of women as political actors is often presented as a steady linear process, moving forwards from post-enlightenment modernity. This article seeks to disturb this ‘discourse of the continuous,’ by using an analysis of the pre-confederation history of suffrage in Canada to both refute a simplistic linear view of women’s rights development and to argue for recognition of the Indigenous contribution to the history of women’s rights in Canada. The gain of franchise and suffrage movements in Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are, rightly, the focus of considerable study (Pauker 2015), This article takes an alternative perspective. Instead, it examines the exercise of earlier franchises in pre-confederation Canada. In particular it analyses why franchise was exercised more widely in Lower Canada and relates this to the context of the removal of franchises from women prior to confederation

Legal cases and estates: James City County, 1841-1851

Legal cases and estates: James City County, 1841-1851. John Coke estate

Le débat des hérauts d'armes de France et d'Angleterre / by John Coke ; éd. commencée par Léopold Pannier et achevée par M. Paul Meyer

[Le débat des hérauts d'armes de France et d'Angleterre (français moyen). 1877]Collection : Société des anciens textes françaisCollection : Société des anciens textes françaisComprend : The debate between the heralds of England and Franc

A ride over the Rocky mountains to Oregon and California : with a glance at some of the tropical islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles. Published in London by Richard Bentley in 1852. 388 pages

Account of the journey of Henry J. Coke, Earl of Leicester, through the western United States to California. He departed the United Kingdom in December of 1849, passing through the Caribbean isles and reaching Saint Louis, Missouri, in May of 1850. He and some companions crossed the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and caught a ship that went to Hawaii and then to San Francisco, arriving in 185