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Annalise Acorn

Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Canada

Biography

Annalise Acorn teaches Jurisprudence, Professional Responsibility and Private International Law. In 2014-15 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. In 2009 she was an H.L.A. Hart Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Ethics and Legal Philosophy, University College, Oxford. She is the author of Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004). She has been a Visiting Professor at University of Michigan Law School, University of Siena Department of Economic Law, and University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law. She is a frequent visitor at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany.

Publications

Lessons from Shakespeares Tiger Mothers: Parental Authority in Coriolanus and Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare, as always, is a goldmine. In many of his portrayals of the parent-child relationship Shakespeare explores the extent of the parent’s legitimate authority over the child as well as the legitimacy of parents’ attempts to control and mould their children in the service of family ambition.What Shakespeare’s depiction of C... Read More»

Annalise Acorn and Katherine Clackson

Review Article: J Civil Legal Sci 2016, 5:181

DOI: 10.4172/2169-0170.1000181

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