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13 Law & Human. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/lawhuman13 and id is 1 raw text is: LAW AND HUMANITIES Routledge 2019, VOL. 13, NO. 1, 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2019.1621029 Taylor &Francis Group Editorial 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 sym- posium 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 post- conflict reconciliation. In a similar spirit, the next article, Dehumanized and demo- nized 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 Anthropos- An 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 pro- duced 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. OD 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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