... not the day forth in vain idleness,” gained his king’s love by conduct-
ing his business. Thanks to Wolsey, Henry could live the life of pleasure his
minister eschewed:
The King was young and ... train him in body, while his tutor
shaped his mind, had other ideas. Palsgrave repeatedly complained that the
duke’s household servants were distracting his charge from learning with
hunting ... disappoint. The conjoining
of governmental experience and the authority of Greek and Latin texts, ini-
tially adopted in order to provide a meliorating supplement to Elyot’s expe-
rience in government,...
... Harris.
Neil McIntosh (Chapter 21), a consultant paediatrician in Scotland, oVers
a practising clinician’s slant on disability, in the context of ethical issues in
withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. ... pregnancy – in part because it is
intended for a clinical audience, in part because the stages of pregnancy oVer
a narrative framework for understanding the recent debates in maternal–fetal
medicine. ... publicly funded IVF clinics in London, combines her
clinical background with an interest in diVerence to suggest a new and
thought-provoking analysis of human reproductive cloning. Drawing on the
work...
... and Legal Theory
Twining: Rethinking Evidence
Twining & Miers: How to Do Things with Rules
Ward: A Critical Introduction to European Law
Ward: Shakespeare and Legal Imagination
Zander: Cases ... Convention
GiventhatthecasesIdiscussinthebookaremerelyillustrative,thereisastrong
elementoffortuityinthewaythefive‘criticallight’chaptersareassembled.The
imageofthekaleidoscopecomestomindinthatitpointstoaninfinitenumberof
combinationsofeithertheoreticalorempiricalelements,orboth.Ineachchapter
itisasifIhadcollectedpiecesofcaselaw,shakenthem,andobservedthe
resultingcombination–ifnotexactlysymmetry–inthemirror(orlight)of
aparticulartheory.Icouldhaverepeatedtheexerciseoverandoveragain,
adinfinitum,eitherwiththesameorwithslightlydifferentmaterial(caselaw)
ormirrors(critiques).
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Eachtimetheresultwouldhavebeendifferentbut,
Iwouldargue,nolesscompelling.
Theimageofthekaleidoscopedrawsattentiontothewayoursensesconstruct
patternswhichdonot‘really’existexceptthroughtheartificeofreflection
(theory).ItcouldbesaidthatIofferakaleidoscopicreadingoftheConvention,
i.e.onegeneratingarrangementswhichare,ifnotaestheticallypleasing,atleast
deceptivelyattractiveintheirsimplicityand(imposed)regularity.Afriendwho
readChapter3wasnotdeceived.Sheremarked,disapprovingly,thatitwasas
though ... Iwas‘musing’.Itookthisasacompliment;theMuses,offspringofZeusand
Mnemosyne,aretraditionallyseenasinspiringcreativityandlearning.‘Musing’
alsoembracestheideaofmeditation,perhapsofwastingtimebutinorder
bettertoponderandreflect.
Theselectionofajudicialinstitutionasthepracticalfocusofmyreflection
resultsinabookwhichcontainsfarmorelawthannon-lawyersareusedto,
thoughlesslawthanlawyersmayhavewished.IbrieflyintroducetheConvention
inChapter2sothatthereadercanseehowthecasesIdiscussfitwithinthelawof
the...