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The Body
Bringing Up the Bodies
Bennett Capers
John D. Feerick Research Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Race, Law, and Justice, Fordham School. B.A. Princeton University; J.D. Columbia Law School. E-mail: capers@law.fordham.edu.

Claudio Rezende provided invaluable research assistance.

Allow me to begin with a scene from one of my favorite novels of the last twenty years. The novel is Hilary Mantel's 'Bring Up the Bodies,' the second in her award-winning trilogy of historical novels about Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII.