Turtle Talk

Here are two recent Legal History Blog posts which may be of interests to readers of this blog.  Follow the links for more information about both:

Hernandez-Saenz Reviews “Empire of Laws and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico”

H-Law has published “Law and Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth-Century Mexico,” a review by Luz Maria Hernandez-Saenz, Department of History, University of Western Ontario, of Brian Philip Owensby’s Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2008).

Soliz and Joseph on Native American Literature, Ceremony and Law

Native American Literature, Ceremony, and Law is a new essay by Cristine Soliz, Colorado State University-Pueblo, and Harold Joseph. It will appear in MLA OPTIONS FOR TEACHING LITERATURE AND LAW, Austin Sarat, Cathrine Frank, Matthew Anderson, eds., 2009. Here’s the abstract (only the abstract, not a fuller essay, is available to download on SSRN).