“From their Graves”: The Theme of Burial and the Work of the Modern Jurist in F. W. Maitland’s Equity also the Forms of Action at Common Law
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Edward Mussawir
Edward Mussawir is a lecturer at Griffith Law School, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of
Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law . His research focuses on questions of jurisdiction, personality and subjectivity in jurisprudence.
Abstract
This paper focuses on the “grave” in the scholarship of Frederic William Maitland. It focuses on Maitland’s later life, his relation to biographical writing and to his series of lectures published posthumously in 1909 as Equity also the Forms of Action at Common Law. The paper explores the theme of burial in Maitland’s lectures and draws some observations about the life of historical legal scholarship and the vocation of the modern jurist. Faced with the task of recouping a jurisprudence from the shifting sands of a system of positive law subject to constant mechanistic reform, Maitland remains attentive to the burial of law and to the peculiar life of its artifices and innovation.
About the author
Edward Mussawir is a lecturer at Griffith Law School, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law. His research focuses on questions of jurisdiction, personality and subjectivity in jurisprudence.
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- Frontmatter
- Focus
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- Millenaristic Equity. Theological Order and Legal Faith
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Equity and the Resources of Critique: Part I
- “Where the Shoe Pinches”: True Equity in Trollope’s The Warden
- Equity as a Question of Decorum and Manners: Conscience as Vision
- Millenaristic Equity. Theological Order and Legal Faith
- “… and if, in time, equity…”. An Exploration of the Time(s) of Equity Diagrammed through Image
- “From their Graves”: The Theme of Burial and the Work of the Modern Jurist in F. W. Maitland’s Equity also the Forms of Action at Common Law
- Research
- Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper: New Definitions of Human Dignity in Novel and Film
- Intertextuality and Parody of Law in The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien: a Literary and a Linguistic Reading
- Book Review
- Gary Watt: Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance
