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Nov. 10 | Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
- In-person event
- 2017, Dunton Tower, ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
“The Old Story of a New Law? Chicago Husband-Killers and their Exonerations, 1867-1930”
Please register for this event at: http://events.carleton.ca/chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-with-marianne-constable/
Dr. Marianne Constable discusses “Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law,” a study in history, law, and rhetoric that explores the cases of the 250+ women who killed their partners in Chicago between 1867 and 1931. Even before women were allowed on juries and contrary to much received wisdom, all-male coroner’s juries, grand juries and petit juries of the period exonerated most wives who killed their husbands, according to what newspapers dubbed “the new unwritten law.”
ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ the Speaker
Dr. Marianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California (Berkeley). She is author of The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions 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 Legal Speech Acts (finalist for two Socio-Legal Studies Association book prizes).
This event is co-sponsored by the Canadian Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics and the Department of Philosophy.