The war against on-line piracy

A summary by Julian Harris, Deputy General Editor Amicus Curiae, of US attempts to control what it identifies as rogue Internet sites engaged in on-line piracy and opposition to such legislative moves

[Review of] Allen G. Noble, ed. To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North America

Like so many works with sections on various subdivisions of a general topic overseen by a general editor, this volume has its ups and downs. The thesis -- that various ethnic groups have provided America with various sorts of architectural styles and modifications of native structures -- is new and fascinating

Introduction: new developments in Robert Burns bibliography

Introduces four talks given at the National Library of Scotland on March 16, 2017, at a workshop on New Developments in Robert Burns Bibliography, jointly convened by Robert Betteridge of the National Library and by Prof. Carruthers, as general editor of the AHRC-funded project Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century, arguing that "every bit as much as literary criticism or textual editing, bibliographical studies need generational renewal.

General Editor\u27s Introduction to the Treatise

There is a story -- recalled rather wistfully by an American in 1995, shortly after the thrashing of Young America by New Zealand\u27s Black Magic -- that in 1851 Queen Victoria came to watch the first race for what became known as the America\u27s Cup. “Who is leading?” she asked the signal master of the royal yacht. “The America,” came the reply. “Which boat is in second place?” the Queen wanted to know. The signal master replied: “There is no second, ma\u27am.\u27DD\u27 This story -- which, though perhaps apocryphal, has gained a life of its own -- captures perfectly the role that John Henry Wigmore\u27s great treatise has played in the development of the law of evidence in the twentieth century. In saying so, I can claim not originality, but rather distinguished authority. John M. Maguire, one of the great scholars of evidence of the generation after Wigmore, referred to the story in 1928 in a generally disparaging review of another treatise and concluded, “Wigmore is still first, and there is no second.” Edmund M. Morgan, Maguire\u27s colleague at Harvard and perhaps the greatest evidence scholar of that generation, quoted Maguire\u27s words approvingly 12 years later in reviewing the third edition of Wigmore\u27s treatise

Endings and Beginnings

Introduction to the CULS Proceedings by the General Editor

[Review of] George J. Leonard (ed.). The Asian Pacific Heritage: A Companion to Literature and the Arts

In this large volume of essays, general editor George J. Leonard aims to produce a tool kit for the multicultural classroom that will unlock the greatest number of (Asian-Pacific American-APA) authors and artists (xiv) for students and teachers. In many ways he hits the mark. Readers who once skipped over the Chinese phrases in Amy Tan\u27s The Joy Luck Club can now find them explained in Molly H. Isham\u27s Reader\u27s Guide to the novel. Those who want to know the meaning of no-no boys or FOBs, or Mestizos or the date when the Queue Ordinance was passed can find them in the book\u27s Cultural Lexicon and Chronology

Announcement: New Editor-in-Chief

Yale Journal of Music & Religion thanks Robin A. Leaver and announces new general editor