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8 Legal Miscellanea 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/legmisca8 and id is 1 raw text is: EL A NEWSLETTR FOR IFE FRIENDS A LEGA L OF THE JACO RBIURNS TAW IBRARY MISCELLANEA VOLUME 8, NuMBIR 1, SPRING, 2011:: Ta GEORGE XVASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AW ,CHOOL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS FOCUS: A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest (1615) T rees, both figurative and physi- cal, have recurred as a theme in acquisitions for the Law Library. The tree of consanguinity models found in the works of early jurists provided a roadmap for determining whether prospective marital alliances would be legal under canon law (see Special Collections Focus: Arbor Cosanguini- tatis (1500), A Legal Miscellanea, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Autumn, 2010)). Unlike these kinship visuals, there is no help- ful graphic which decodes the skein of social, legal, and environmental interlacings of the early modern forest. In their quest to determine exactly what the forest signified in earlier societies, scholars often begin by looking at jurist and forest scholar John Manwood's works, especially the 1615 edition of A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest (London: Societie of Stationers). John Manwood (d. 1610) was an amateur of the forest, in the best sense of the word. As a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, gamekeeper of Waltham Forest, and Justice in Eyre of the New Forest under Elizabeth I, Manwood possessed a mix of legal and practical knowledge, and a love, of forests which impelled him to assemble the ancient and extant forest laws in England, and comment FRG)OM THE LIBRARY OF JACYES-AUGUSTE DE THOU: 14 MAN S DE FEUITS 15173 ebel with a cause. At each turn in his life, the French Huguenot jurist Franyois Hotman (1524-1590) courted controversy. Born only a short time after Martin Luther nailed his Ninety- Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Hotman's life unfolded during the ecclesiastical upheaval of the Reformation. A man in revolt, he relinquished his prominent robe- Through the generosity of Richard and Diant Cummins noble family's Catholic De Feudis Commentatio Tripertita [1573], in mottled calf with de Thou's coat of arms and cipher. faith for Calvinism, end- ing up in permanent exile in Switzerland after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572. In law and political theory Hotman was no less bold. A respected but iconoclastic jurist, he advocated a reorganization of jurisprudence, specifically preaching the reversal of the Roman law influence in favor of formalization of the homegrown customary law in France. In governance, Hotman favored a version of popular sover- eignty. He wrote prolifically, and his seminal works are found in most (continued on page 2) A L4A4 MISCELLANS E %IHEPRECIPIENT OFA AALL BAIlONS AR t We are pleased to announce that A Legal Miscellanea has been honored with the 2011 Law Library Publications Award (Print Division) by the American Association of Law Libraries. The award recognizes achievement in creating in-house library materials that are outstanding in quality and significance. The awards ceremony is scheduled for July25 during AALL's annual meeting in Philadelphia. (continued on page 3)