Susy MenisPolicy at the mercy of fear: Déjà vu and the open prisonsAbsconds from prison are at a historic low. The prison system in England and Wales does not offer an ‘open prison’ sentence, but...
Susy MenisHow to write a positivist legal historyHow to write a positivist legal history: lessons from Blackstone and J.F. Stephen. Histories. 1, 2021, 169-183. This paper is about...
Susy MenisAdultery as a DefenceAdultery as a Defence: The Construction of a Legally Permissible Violence, England 1810. Histories. 3(2) 2023, 76-97. Mawgridge’s case in...
Susy MenisThe deceased-accused and the victim as a commodityThe deceased-accused and the victim as a commodity: Jimmy Savile as a case study to examine the role of real-crime documentary in...
Susy MenisThe Provocation Trigger of AdulteryExcuse for the husband killing his wife’s lover in the form of the partial defence of provocation was set following the Mawgridge’s case...
Susy MenisThe untold story of the first Italian-Turinese female lawyerThe Netflix nineteenth-century period drama The Law According to Lidia Poet presents the adventures of a young Italian law graduate in...
Susy MenisReality check: Russell Brand, survivors of rape and the criminal justice systemThe historically problematic relationship between the criminal Justice System and complainants of rape surfaced again with the recent...
Susy MenisIntegrating Blended Learning in a Law Curriculum15th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies The digital learning experience I would like to share at...
Susy MenisA History of Women’s Prisons in England: The Myth of Prisoner Reformation (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021). This book presents a revisionist prison history which brings to the forefront the relationship...
Susy MenisArchiving SovereigntyArchiving Sovereignty. Law, History, Violence by Stewart Motha (USA: University of Michigan Press, 2018, 224 pp., £19.95 (pbk) ISBN...