Tag: Law

  • This Dreadful Nonsense is the Law: A Not-So Marvellous Marriage by Lemony Snicket

    The overwhelming feeling I have for the Baudelaire Orphans is concern. In fact, so concerned was I for their safety that when the Netflix show came out, I couldn’t watch the final episode of A Series of Unfortunate Events for months. Because what if? Snicket had been promising emotional devastation since the first page, the…

  • Playing Marriage

    “Marriage is no picnic.”  Indeed it is not. It also isn’t a play. Or is it?  A Series of Unfortunate Events (the movie) follows Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire on their quest to uncover the truth behind their parents’ deaths and the destruction of their home. On their path to truth and justice, they (have…

  • Conflict-related forced marriage in Army Of God: Joseph Kony’s War in Central Africa 

    Do you remember #BringBackOurGirls? Or the Yezidi women forced into marriage by members of ISIS? They are two of many examples of conflict-related forced marriage. Across many but not all conflicts, a similar pattern emerges. Women and girls are taken by male fighters, forced to marry them, and subjected to various forms of physical, sexual…

  • Persephone and Hades : A Marriage Made in Hell?

    A strange shift is occurring within the myth of Persephone and Hades: the young people have gotten hold of it, and they’re making it wholesome. This metamorphosis occurred to me recently as I was scrolling through my Instagram, and a page I follow (@lit.memery – I am who I am) posted the following: And I’ve…

  • New Publication Alert! 

    Yes, I am reluctantly blowing my own trumpet.   Last year, I wrote a journal article about forced marriage and human rights law. It is still under review. That is the academic publication process for you. Apart from that it takes AGES, it also involves a lot of write-and-delete. Or maybe more write-and-take-out-what-you-have-just-written-because-it-pushes-the-article-over-the-wordlimit-but-save-it-in-another-document-just-in-case. I decided to…