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Born in Atlanta and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Allen Mendenhall resists categories
and groupings and doesn’t like being pigeonholed as a
writer-attorney-Southerner-poet-literary
critic-Bunburyer-Calvinist-libertarian-porcher-educator-essayist-misanthrope-humanist-Jap
anophile-eccentric-conformist-traveler-aesthete-pessimist-legal
polycentrist-custodian-collector-seeker-conservative-classical
liberal-thinker-bibliophile-blogger because such a label is far too limiting. He would
call himself a pragmatist, but doing so would prove him wrong. He holds a B.A. in English
from Furman University, M.A. in English from West Virginia University, J.D. from West
Virginia University College of Law, and LL.M. in transnational law from Temple University
Beasley School of Law. He is a Ph.D. student at Auburn University, where he received a
Graduate Dean Fellowship. He is the managing editor of the Southern Literary Review and
has been an adjunct legal associate at the Cato Institute as well as a Humane Studies
Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies in Arlington, Virginia. His research and
writing interests include Law-and-Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Legal and
Literary Hermeneutics, Jurisprudence, Transnational Law, and American Studies. He has
studied at the University of London (Birkbeck College), the Shakespeare Institute of the
University of Birmingham, Centro Universitario Vila Velha, Fundacao Getulio Vargas
(Direito Rio), and the Tokyo campus of Temple University Beasley School of Law. He has
numerous publications to his credit, including essays, articles, reviews, encyclopedia
entries, and poems, and he has written on a wide variety of topics: William Butler Yeats,
Shakespeare, Harper Lee, legal research and writing, the American prison system, the Dred
Scott decision, Japanese culture and politics, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, and more. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in both popular and scholarly
periodicals, including The Journal Jurisprudence, Canadian Journal of Law &
Jurisprudence, The Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives,
PEER English, The Michigan State Journal of International Law, Libertarian Papers, The
University Bookman, Modernist Cultures, Antiwar.com, The International Journal of
Baudrillard Studies, Counterpunch, The Legendary, The Front Porch Republic, The Journal
of Ayn Rand Studies, The Student Lawyer, West Virginia History, The Southern Literary
Review, Taki's Magazine, The Sigma Tau Delta Review, The Aroostook Review, The West
Virginia Lawyer, The Oregon Commentator, 49th Parallel, Mises Daily, The West Virginia
Record, Brazzil Magazine, Liberty, Tributaries, The Dominion Post, The Christian Lawyer,
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and the Independent Review. He lives in Atlanta with
his wife, Giuliana. He blogs at The Literary Lawyer, The Literary Table, Austrian
Economics and Literature, and TheMendenhall.com. 

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