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The controversial career of John Walpole Willis is re-evaluated in this study of his legal career. Willis, the fifth judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, served in three colonies, and in each place he wrestled with the role of the law in a rapidly-changing society. In Upper Canada, he confronted the colony's transition from an oligarchy into a nascent democracy; in his next posting, in British Guyana, he was responsible for helping the colony implement, and absorb the consequences of, the abolition of slavery. New South Wales, his final posting, presented unique legal problems as it evolved from a penal colony into a free settlement, and the new settlement at Port Phillip began to grow. To these troubled societies, Judge Willis brought an acute legal mind and a stormy personality - he was twice dismissed from his post by the local Governor. This book presents Willis as a contradictory figure - Australia's first activist judge, who was nonetheless a stickler for the letter of the law, the author of several remarkably humane and enlightened judgments, who was capable of endorsing appalling cruelty, and a man who insisted upon decorum and propriety, yet was undone by his own conspicuous failures of self-control

John Willis has been respected and loved in the Canadian legal community as a teacher, colleague, and scholar for decades, and one of his articles - Statute Interpretation in a Nutshell' - is probably the best-known single piece of Canadian legal writing. The law about government was his abiding interest and the subject of most of his writing. This article is a study of this writing, especially the writing done during the 1930s. It is primarily part of an undertaking to understand the minds of Canadian lawyers, but it is also a tribute. My conclusion is that this writing was outstanding scholarship. Canadians do not easily believe that one of us has been outstanding, not only within our community but beyond, but this is my claim and my tribute.

Enlistment record from 15th New York National Guard. Includes occupation, age, address, birthplace, height, eye color, hair color, complexion, etc.

"The substance of a lecture delivered at the invitation of the Syndicate, before the fourth summer meeting of Cambridge University extension students in August 1893." ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The substance of a lecture delivered, at the invitation of the Syndicate, before the fourth summer meeting of Cambridge University extension students in August 1893." ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Out of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis's daring insights went beyond popular music, taking on such issues as pornography, religion, feminism, war, and drugs. The Essential Ellen Willis gathers writings that span forty years and are both deeply engaged with the times in which they were first published and yet remain fresh and relevant amid today's seemingly intractable political and cultural battles. Whether addressing the women's movement, sex and abortion, race and class, or war and terrorism, Willis brought to each a distinctive attitude--passionate yet ironic, clear-sighted yet hopeful. Offering a compelling and cohesive narrative of Willis's liberationist "transcendence politics," the essays--among them previously unpublished and uncollected pieces--are organized by decade from the 1960s to the 2000s, with each section introduced by young writers who share Willis's intellectual bravery, curiosity, and lucidity: Irin Carmon, Spencer Ackerman, Cord Jefferson, Ann Friedman, and Sara Marcus. The Essential Ellen Willis concludes with excerpts from Willis's unfinished book about politics and the cultural unconscious, introduced by her longtime partner, Stanley Aronowitz. An invaluable reckoning of American society since the 1960s, this volume is a testament to an iconoclastic and fiercely original voice. "--

An obituary for Ellen Willis (d. 2006), a writer and cultural critic.