Ross Davies's edited work, Regulation & Imagination: Legal & Literary Perspectives on Fox-hunting, is now out from Green Bag Press:
Jennifer L. Behrens, Duke University School of Law, J. Michael Goodson Law Library, has separately posted her chapter from the volume, On the Scent: A History of 'The King of the Foxes' Autograph Manuscript:This is our first try at an odd mode of legal scholarship: the coffee-table treatise. It is
handsome enough to merit display (many nice pictures, and maps), and scholarly enough to merit study (many eloquent experts).
The story at the center of the book — Arthur Conan Doyle's The King of the Foxes — is both an exciting tale and a provocative prompt for discussion of law and literature affecting, and affected by, fox-hunting.
The autograph manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1898 short story "The King of the Foxes" now resides in the Dartmouth College Library. While the complete provenance of the manuscript remains elusive, bookplates and notations provide enough information to sketch an approximate timeline of its travels and a brief biography of several holders, including legendary attorney and former American Bar Association president Frank Hogan (1877-1944), the founder of law firm Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells).
Frank Hogan (LC)
--Dan Ernst