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Deep-dive companion pieces written to accompany another entity elsewhere in this atlas, most often a landmark case, a jurist, a statute or a legal doctrine, expanding on one specific fact, ruling or turn in that entity's own story rather than covering a subject of its own. The grouping comes from the legal domain each piece's parent subject falls under: religious law and church-state relations, constitutional courts and comparative constitutionalism, legal philosophy and rule of law doctrine, English constitutional jurists and common law foundations, financial regulation and corporate law, and indigenous, human rights and comparative statutory law. This excludes any piece that stands as a subject in its own right with no single parent entity behind it; that kind of writing belongs on the case, jurist, statute, doctrine, code or regulation page it describes directly, not here as a companion article.

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A case to answer: what the first look decides and what it leaves open

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A chief justice chosen over three senior judges

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A lecture on why rights must be defended: Jhering and The Struggle for Law

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A monk who collected canon law and carried it into politics

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A scholar who catalogued scholars across the legal schools

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A world court whose reach depends on the consent of states

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An investiture reformer who took investiture himself

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An office with income and no duties, from church benefice to statute

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Briefs, panels and the record: how one Pennsylvania appeals court decides

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Camden, the Wilkes case and general warrants

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Carnal knowledge: from Biblical euphemism to a statutory element of proof

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Claims you could have brought but did not

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Earl Warren and the Removal Order He Later Regretted

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Eleven judgments, a 7 to 6 count and the supersession that followed Kesavananda Bharati

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Escheat: from feudal reversion to bona vacantia

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From a fiction in ejectment to a modern injunction: the working life of John Doe

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From a slaveholding Kentucky Unionist to the Great Dissenter

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From a thesis on the equality of states to the World Court: the scholarly path of Pieter Kooijmans

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From banishment to the Praetorian Guard: the career of Ulpian

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From fief to freehold: how the fee simple came to mean ownership

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From Kazerun to the bench in Yemen: the career of Firuzabadi

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From royal duty to local self-governance: how the posse comitatus survived

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From the Chancellor's conscience to the Chancellor's foot: how equity earned its rules

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From the Chancery bar to The Concept of Law

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From the Rivonia defence team to the Constitutional Court bench

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Government by injunction and the court as supervisor

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Gross indecency: an offence the statutes never defined

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Halakha: a legal tradition that few classifications know where to put

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Hersch Lauterpacht: scholar, Nuremberg adviser and judge of the World Court

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How a haystack fire made the reasonable person an objective standard

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How a king's circuit judges made law common to all England

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How a workaround for friars became equitable ownership

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How Australia's highest court became its last word

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How church procedure became the continental criminal trial

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How comparative lawyers came to treat unwritten custom as law

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How courts have used jury sequestration, from the Thaw trial to partial isolation

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How national judges bring EU law questions to Luxembourg

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How the adversarial system learned to welcome lawyers

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How the Supreme Court decides what counts as a bill of attainder

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How the writ system limited the rights a plaintiff could claim

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How Tribonian built the Corpus Juris Civilis in stages

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How usufruct splits the bundle of ownership

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How Vattel's Law of Nations reached the American founders

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Interpreting the Constitution: the quiet work of Albania's Constitutional Court

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Is property a right to exclude or a bundle of rights?

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Joseph Story and the case for one national law

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Law as the command of a sovereign: Austin and the command theory

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More than a trial court: the review role of the King County Superior Court

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One phrase, many rules: how courts treat the thing that speaks for itself

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Plessy v Ferguson: a test case planned from the first railway seat

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Qisas, hudud and diyya: three paths to a death sentence in Islamic law

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Qui tam: from the Statute of York to the False Claims Act

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Savigny against a unified German code

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Scrutinizing the two Sahihs: al-Daraqutni's Kitab al-tatabbu'

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Secret databases and the right to dispute: what the Fair Credit Reporting Act promised consumers

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Subrogation: stepping into another party's position, and why it stops there

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The 17 July rule: a fixed date tied to a treaty

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The constitutional court Kelsen designed and the guardian of the constitution

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The duty of undivided loyalty and where jurisdictions differ

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The jurist Roman law students were named after

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The prison Bentham never got to build

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True dominion and the limits of papal and imperial power in Vitoria's De Indis

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Two kinds of defiance and the power to punish them

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Two layers of tribal sovereignty: the Marshall Trilogy and congressional plenary power

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Unpaid, unlearned and still constitutional: the lay magistrate on trial

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When a coroner's jury could accuse a suspect

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When a finding of guilt is not the same as being convicted

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When a passing remark becomes law

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When death ends a conviction: abatement ab initio in practice

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When the Supreme Court refused power Congress offered it

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Where a trial ends, where it does not apply, and what each model is criticized for

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Where an act of God excuses and where it does not

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Who bears the risk when a defendant cannot pay

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Who gets through a diversion program

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Why ninety-nine years: a convention, not a counted limit

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Why Rome needed usucaption: the gap between delivery and ownership

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World Day for International Justice: a date chosen at Kampala

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LawAtlas Long-Form Articles, First Edition
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  • Contains: Four Freedoms in One Petition
  • Contains: A Rulebook for an Industry With No Single Code
  • Contains: Mandatory in Two Countries, Voluntary Almost Everywhere Else
  • Contains: China's Answer to the GDPR Question
  • Contains: A Law Passed by Statute, Not Grown by Precedent
  • Contains: Writing a Court Decision Into Statute
  • Contains: Two Legal Systems in One Statute
  • Contains: The Doctrine Common Law Never Quite Built
  • Contains: France and Germany Agree on the Answer, Not the Reason
  • Contains: The State That Can Be Sued in Its Own Courts
  • Contains: Formal Legality Was Not Enough
  • Contains: Eleven Judges, One Value, in the First Great Case
  • Contains: A Value Too Vague to Be a Rule
  • Contains: The Case That Outvoted the Polls
  • Contains: A Court With No Precedent of Its Own Yet
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