{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f4d74f9ed616435b66fd0ba/5f4d7500861796598114203d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 3: \"The Wills of Winter\"","description":"<p>In this episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry &amp; Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire ask: Is Robb Stark’s will legally enforceable?&nbsp;</p><p>Our analysis this week includes:</p><ul><li>Extensive debate between Merry &amp; Clint arguing opposite sides of this thorny question!</li><li>We decide what happens if Bran &amp; Rickon show up!</li><li>The unveiling of Catelyn Stark’s New Zealand-y accent!</li><li>We decide what happens if Jeyne is knocked up!</li><li>Clint gasses on about social contract theory… AGAIN!</li><li>Sober discussion of fee entail, per stirpes, primogeniture, and feudal inheritance!</li><li>We also say the word “intestate” a lot and mostly manage not to giggle!</li></ul><p>This was our longest and most fun episode yet. Don’t miss it!&nbsp;</p><p>Supplemental reading:&nbsp;</p><p>-For a great essay discussing how Martin models his feudalism after the kind of feudalism present in England during the War of the Roses, check out Stephan Sasse’s “<a href=\"https://towerofthehand.com/blog/2013/03/27-westerosi-study-in-feudalism/index.html\">A Westerosi Study in Feudalism” at Tower of the Hand</a>.</p><p>-GRRM’s November 2, 1999 lengthy digression on the <a href=\"https://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Hornwood_Inheritance_and_the_Whents\">Hornwood Inheritance, feudal politics, and law</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>-GRRM’s November 30, 2012 <a href=\"https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2012/11/30/world-of-ice-and-fire-app/\">NotABlog confirming that the WOIAF app is canon</a>.</p><p>-Clint’s 2019 essay on Northern Sovereignty, “<a href=\"https://lawsoficeandfire.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/why-shouldnt-we-rule-ourselves-again-westeros-and-the-social-contract/\">Why Shouldn’t We Rule Ourselves Again?</a>”</p><p>Intro &amp; Outro music courtesy <a href=\"https://www.sidluscious.com/\">Sid Luscious &amp; The Pants</a>. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.&nbsp;</p><p><br><br></p>","author_name":"Maester Merry & Clint"}