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Eugene Volokh

The Jealous Mistress, vol. 1

From vol. 1, number 2 of The Jealous Mistress, a periodical briefly published starting in 1925 by the Colorado Bar Association.

The reference, of course, is to the phrase "the law is a jealous mistress," which is sometimes credited to Justice Joseph Story, in his speech at his inauguration as Dane Professor of Law at Harvard in 1829:

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