The articles in this issue comprise an impressively diverse range of contributions, engaging on the one hand with such contemporary concerns as the depiction of refugees and genocide and on the other with historical issues stretching back to Tudor England and even as far back as the Ancient Greeks. In addition to the articles, this issue contains the latest contribution to our occasional series of symposium articles in which a group of commentators gather together to offer responses to significant landmarks in humanities and arts scholarship around the subject of law. The first article in this issue is Hannah Baumeister’s “Drawing on Genocide” which looks to Jean-Philippe Strassen’s graphic novel Deogratias to provide a more nuanced appreciation of genocide than that which is provided by the abstract definitions advanced in law. The hope is for more effective postconflict reconciliation. In a similar spirit, the next article, “Dehumanized and demonized refugees, zombies and World War Z”, by Penny Crofts and Anthea Vogl, looks to the 2013 blockbuster film World War Z (dir. Marc Forster) to provide insight into the anxieties that pervade social and political responses to the current and ongoing refugee crisis. The key hope, again, is for nuance to overcome stereotypical and definitional abstractions. The authors argue that in the cinematic context “the contemporary zombie, as a race-less catchall monster figure, mirrors the erasure of colonial histories, race and race relations in the casting of refugees as dehistoricized, invading and disorderly bodies”. Moving to the pair of historically-situated articles, we have first a fascinating and deeply philological engagement with gestural practice in Ancient Greece. Thanos Zartaloudis’s “Hieros AnthroposAn Inquiry Into The Practices Of Archaic Greek Supplication” aims, in the authors words, “to articulate a non-legalistic approach to the earliest evidence” of the practice of supplication. What is produced thereby is a new theory regarding “the sacredness of suppliants in archaic Greece before supplication became juridically regulated in Classical Greece by certain forms of law”. In this article we learn something profound about the role of the whole body in the gestural practice of pleading, a practice that was performed not just through bending of the suppliant’s knee but through reaching out across the threshold to touch the knee of the supplicated. The fourth and final article, brings us to the Tudor period in the jurisdiction of England and Wales. In “Marriage, Dispensation and Divorce during the years of Henry VIII’s “Great Matter”: A local case study”, Gwilym Owen and Rebecca Probert look to a particularly rich Welsh case study to provoke an appreciation of the legal and cultural history that surrounded the subject of marital annulment around the time of Henry VIII’s turbulent marriages.

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这一期的文章涵盖了令人印象深刻的各种贡献，一方面涉及当代问题，例如对难民和种族灭绝的描绘，另一方面涉及历史问题，其历史可追溯到都铎王朝，甚至追溯到古希腊人。 。除文章外，本期还包含对我们偶尔举行的一系列专题讨论会文章的最新贡献，在该系列文章中，一群评论员聚集在一起，对围绕法学主题的人文艺术领域的重要里程碑做出了回应。本期的第一篇文章是汉娜·鲍米斯特（Hannah Baumeister）的《灭绝种族罪绘图》，该书让让·菲利普·斯特拉森（Jean-Philippe Strassen）的图画小说《灭杀》（Deogratias）对种族灭绝的理解比法律上先进的抽象定义所提供的更为细微。希望实现更有效的冲突后和解。以类似的精神，Penny Crofts和Anthea Vogl撰写的下一篇文章“非人性化和妖魔化的难民，僵尸和Z战”，着眼于2013年大片《 World War Z》（导演Marc Forster），以提供对焦虑症的见解。对当前和持续的难民危机进行了社会和政治反应。同样，关键的希望是让细微差别克服刻板印象和定义上的抽象。作者认为，在电影环境中，“当代僵尸是一个无种族的通盘怪物人物，反映了在将难民铸成非历史，入侵和无序的尸体时对殖民历史，种族和种族关系的消除”。转到这对历史悠久的文章，在古希腊，我们首先进行了有趣而深刻的语言学研究。用作者的话说，Thanos Zartaloudis的“ Hieros AnthroposAn对古希腊恳求行为的探究”旨在“阐明对最早行为的非法律主义方法”。由此产生的是一种新的理论，即“在古希腊通过某些形式的法律对祈求进行法律规范之前，祈求者在古希腊的神圣性”。在本文中，我们了解到整个身体在恳求的手势练习中的作用，这不仅是通过恳求者的膝盖弯曲，而且还通过越过阈值以触摸恳求者的膝盖来进行的。第四篇也是最后一篇文章 带我们进入英格兰和威尔士管辖的都铎时期。Gwilym Owen和Rebecca Probert在“亨利八世的“大事”期间的婚姻，分居和离婚：一个本地案例研究”中，着眼于一个特别丰富的威尔士案例研究，以激发人们对围绕法治的法律和文化历史的认识。亨利八世动荡的婚姻时期，婚姻废止的主题。