Forthcoming From Palgrave/Macmillan: Juries, Science, and Popular Culture In the Age of Terror: The Case of the Sydney Bomber

Forthcoming in December: Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror: The Case of the Sydney Bomber (David Tait and Jane Goodman-Delahunty, eds., Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016). David Tait is a professor at Western Sydney University, Australia. Jane Goodman-Delahunty is a professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's contents.

Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies. In a context of heightened fear can juries be trusted to remain impartial when confronted by defendants charged with terrorism? Do they scrutinize prosecution cases carefully, or does emotion trump reason once the spectre of terrorism is invoked? This book examines these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. The authors look at the how jurors in terrorism trials are likely to respond to gruesome evidence, including beheading videos. The 'CSI effect' is examined as a possible response to forensic evidence, and jurors with different learning preferences are compared. Virtual interactive environments, built like computer games, may be created to provide animated reconstructions of the prosecution or defence case. This book reports on how to create such presentations, culminating in the analysis of a live simulated trial using interactive visual displays followed by jury deliberations. The team of international, transdisciplinary experts draw conclusions of global legal and political significance, and contribute to the growing scholarship on comparative counter-terrorism law. The book will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners of law, criminal justice, forensic science and psychology.

Call For Papers: Annual Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference

Call for Papers

Second Annual Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference

“Law and Democracy”

Saturday and Sunday, April 22nd - 23rd, 2017

at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Deadline for submission: January 16th, 2017

Acceptance notification: Early February

Law and democracy are typically seen as interdependent: laws protect the fundamental rights that make democracy possible, while democracy ensures the legitimacy of law-making bodies. However,  the two principles conflict just as often as they complement one another. Where democracy calls for radical change at times, the law looks to precedent and tradition. Where democracy privileges majority opinion, constitutional law often prioritizes minority rights. Where democracy depends on vocal dissent, and even civil disobedience, courts and law enforcement officials typically aim to contain civic unrest. Law and democracy are central pillars of the modern nation-state, but the conflicts between them – at polling stations or protests, in courts or legislative chambers – betray fundamental tensions in political and social life.

The Brown Legal Studies initiative invites paper submissions on the subject of “Law and Democracy” for its second annual graduate student conference. At a moment when important political and legal institutions in the United States are challenged from within and without, our conference will consider the interaction of law and democracy, both in our own time and in broader historical or comparatist contexts. We hope to foster interdisciplinary conversation and so encourage papers from any discipline, including (but not limited to): Jurisprudence, History, Ethnic Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, Literature, Classics, Political Science, and Sociology. We welcome abstracts addressing any geographical area or historical period. Possible topics of discussion may include:

consent, political legitimacy human rights, civil liberties protest, civil disobedience white supremacy, racisms class, nepotism voting, disenfranchisement war, imperialism, neo-imperialism expertise, bureaucracy, technocracy mediating institutions such as legislatures, town halls, electoral college, party system

·  environment, natural resources, stewardship ·  corporations, lobbying, anonymity ·  litigation, judicial discretion ·  corruption, ethics, accountability ·  public reason, debate, truth, epistocracy ·  education, civic knowledge, literacy ·  consumerism, boycotts, divestment ·  religion, pluralism

Please submit a 250-500 word abstract, along with a copy of your C.V, by Monday January 16th, 2017. Submissions should be sent to brownlegalstudies@gmail.com. If you have questions, please contact Jonathan Lande (jonathan_lande@brown.edu), Katie Fitzpatrick (kathleen_fitzpatrick@brown.edu), or Sara Ludin (saraludin@berkeley.edu).

More information is also available at www.brownlegalstudies.org.

Call For Papers: Representations of Law, Justice, and the Subject in "Engrenages"

Via @thomgiddens

CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW – REVUEINTERNATIONALE DE SÉMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE 

http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196/PSE 

Editor-in-chief: Anne WAGNERUniversité Lille – Nord de FranceCentre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit, équipe René Demoguevalwagnerfr@yahoo.com  

Special issue: Representations of Law, Justice and the Subject in Engrenages  This is a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue international de Sémiotique juridique, the leading international journal on legal semiotics. 

The special issue will be devoted to exploring legal themes, representations, and images in the French television series Engrenages (known to English speaking audiences as ‘Spiral’). 

We therefore invite proposals for papers exploring themes including (but not necessarily limited to):• Portrayal of the relationships between branches of the justice system in Engrenages and/or how these are symbolized by relationships between the characters;• Portrayals of norm-transgression (which might include crime, corruption, and/or non-legal transgressions⎯e.g. of roles, or norms of expected behaviour);• Portrayals of violence;• Imagery/discourses of the human body (living and/or dead);• Interpretations of gender and/or sexuality;• Representations of ethnicity, race, and/or migrants;• Representations of sex work/sex workers. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be emailed to the guest editors, Professor Peter Robson (peter.robson@strath.ac.uk) and Dr Mary Neal (mary.neal@strath.ac.uk), by 15 March 2017.

Decisions will be made by 30 April 2017, with submission of full papers due by 30 April 2018 and publication of the special issue anticipated in 2018.  

Anne Wagner, Ph. D., Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches - QualifiéeAssociate Professor, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (France)Correspondante LANSAD/CRL - CGU CALAISCentre Droit et Perspectives du Droit, Equipe René Demogue - Université de Lille II (France)Research Professor, China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing - China)

http://fr.linkedin.com/in/annewagnerhttp://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-9322-6/page/1Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196Series Editor, Law, Language and Communication - Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/series/ASHSER1363)

President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law - http://www.semioticsoflaw.com/

Mahmud on Modern Law, Universality, and the Colonial Exception

Tayyab Mahmud, Seattle University School of Law, Center for Global Justice, is publishing Wanted Dead & Alive: Modern Law, Universality and the Colonial Exception in volume 33 of the Wisconsin International Law Journal (2015). Here is the abstract.

The ubiquitous exclusion/inclusion binary is not a helpful frame to measure the depth and reach of constitutionalism and human rights. Inscription of the law over subjugated bodies and spaces continues to subscribe to an enduring grammar of modernity’s engagement with alterity. This grammar is not one of exclusion, but, rather, forms a three-pronged matrix engagement: engulfment/exception/subordination. The Other is not “discovered,” left out or left alone — excluded from operations of constitutional regimes, and then gradually incorporated as a rights-bearing subject. The Other is always-already engulfed in operations of modern law, placed in zones of exception, and positioned in states of subordination.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Call For Papers: Criminal American: Reading, Studying, and Teaching American Crime Fiction: American Literature Association Symposium, March 3-4, 2017

Criminal America: Reading, Studying and Teaching American Crime Fiction

Call for Papers

American Literature Association Symposium 

“Criminal America:  Reading, Studying and Teaching  American Crime Fiction”

March 3-4 2017

Keynote Speaker:
Charles Rzepka, Boston University

ALA symposia provide opportunities for scholars to meet in pleasant settings, present papers, and share ideas and resources. The March 2017 symposium will focus on American crime fiction, ranging from Poe to the present and beyond, and including all varieties of the genre, from hard-boiled to puzzle mysteries, locked rooms to global conspiracies, dime novels to experimental texts. Subjects might include, but are not limited to, the following:
Crime fiction and space; representing class, race, and gender; periodizing the genre; Poe’s precursors; narrative technique; adaptations; the future of the genre; teaching crime fiction; literary vs genre fiction.
While we welcome individual proposals, panels and roundtable discussions are also encouraged.

Location: Palmer House Hilton
17 E Monroe St
Chicago, IL 60603

Hotel Rate: The Palmer House Hilton is offering a special rate of $149 (plus tax) per night for a single or double room. This is a great location in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Conference Director:
David Schmid, University at Buffalo

Conference Fee: $150
Conference fee includes lunch on both days, as well as a Friday evening reception.

Please email all proposals to David Schmid
dschmid1234@gmail.com
before December 1, 2016

Please note: We hope to produce an edited volume made up of the best work presented at the conference.
Conference Details: The American Literature Association will meet in Chicago for a symposium on American crime fiction, March 3-4 2017. Please plan to stay in the conference hotel as this helps us meet our commitment to the hotel and keeps our rates low.

To make your hotel reservations online, click on the link below:

https://aws.passkey.com/e/15105935
Sessions run Friday and Saturday, March 3-4. There will be an opening reception on Thursday evening as well as receptions Friday and Saturday evening. Lunch will be served Friday and Saturday. Please note that luncheon preferences will be sent to conference participants at a later date.
Individuals may propose papers or panels by emailing the conference director, David Schmid, at dschmid1234@gmail.com no later than December 1, 2016. The proposal should include the title of the presentation or panel, an abstract that provides the conference director with a clear idea of the material that will be covered, a brief vita or description of the presenter’s qualifications, and complete mailing addresses and emails for all participants. The proposal should be both pasted into an email and sent as an attachment (preferably in WORD). All emails will be acknowledged in a timely manner. The conference director welcomes proposals for roundtables and panels that deal with the development of important genres and literary movements. Please note that no audiovisual equipment will be available for the symposium.
Those proposing papers and/or panels will be informed of acceptances in early January. Participants will be asked to make their hotel reservations immediately and to pre-register on-line. If necessary, the registration fee and form can be mailed using the material posted at the end of this announcement. A program will be placed on the ALA website prior to our meeting, and printed programs will be available at the symposium.
ALA Guidelines: The most common ALA format is a time slot of one hour and twenty minutes with three papers and a chair. This permits time for discussion and three papers of approximately 20 minutes (or nine typed double-spaced pages). Organizers of panels are free to use other formats provided they respect the time limits. Furthermore, the ALA encourages panel organizers to experiment with innovative formats including discussion groups and panels featuring more speakers and briefer papers. Chairs will make sure that the panels start and end on time and that no speaker goes beyond the allotted time limit. We prefer that chairs not present papers on the panels that they are moderating, and no one may present more than one paper at an ALA symposium.
The conference fee covers the costs of the conference including two meals and two receptions. We encourage all of those who are on the program to pre-register. The conference fee is $150 for all participants. We regret that we are unable to offer a lower rate for graduate students and independent scholars for this symposium.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PAPER INVOICE AND REGISTRATION FORM*

*We prefer that you register online. To do so, click on the link below.

ONLINE SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION
ALA Membership: Membership in the ALA is not required in order to propose or present a paper. In fact, technically the members of the American Literature Association are the various author societies. Individuals may keep informed about the activities of the ALA by checking our website (www.americanliterature.org), which is the primary source for information about ALA activities. Individuals can also be placed on a mailing list by sending their contact information to: Alfred Bendixen, Executive Director of the ALA, at abendixen@tamu.edu. Those on the mailing list will receive copies of the annual call for papers and the conference announcement/registration packet.
The easiest way to find out about the symposium and all ALA activities is by consulting our website: www.americanliterature.org
Please note that the American Literature Association maintains the lowest conference fees of any major scholarly organization because it operates without a paid staff. If you have any questions that are not answered by this announcement, please contact the conference director at dschmid1234@gmail.com or Alfred Bendixen, Executive Director of the ALA, at abendixen@tamu.edu.
Thank you for your interest and your support of the American Literature Association.

Conference on the Art of Law, Bruges, Groeningemuseum, January 16-18, 2017

Announcement:


CONFERENCE: The Art of Law (Bruges, Groeningemuseum, 16-18 Jan 2017)

The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in Context from the Middle Ages to the First World War

Recent years have witnessed a clear rise in scholarship on law and the visual, mostly originating in the wider field of law and the humanities. The conference The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in Context from the Middle Ages to the First World War wishes to contribute to this research by focusing on imagery in its legal and art historical contexts. The program brings together original and interdisciplinary scholarship that questions the role of art in the practice of law, jurisprudence and justice administration from the Late Middle Ages through the Nineteenth Century.

The conference will be held in the Groeningemuseum, Bruges on Monday 16, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 January, 2017, during the exhibition De Kunst van het Recht. Drie Eeuwen Gerechtigheid in Beeld (The Art of Law. Three Centuries of Justice Depicted) (28 October, 2016 – 5 February, 2017). This art exhibition, curated by Vanessa Paumen and Tine Van Poucke, features about 130 artworks from over 30 national and international museums and libraries and will focus on themes related to justice as expressed in artworks of various media from about 1450 through 1750.

The Art of Law is the closing conference of the IAP Justice and Populations’s WP4: Long-term (Self-)Representations of Justice (LongTermJust).

The conference is supported by
•    Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS
•    Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
•    Flemish Research Centre for the Arts of the Burgundian Netherlands
•    IAP Justice and Populations: The Belgian Experience in International Perspective


See conference website (taolconference.wordpress.com) for final program, registration and practical details.

Jones @bchristophjones and Sarat @ljstprof on Justices as "Sacred Symbols": Antonin Scalia and the Cultural Life of the Law

Brian Christopher Jones, Liverpool Hope University, and Austin Sarat, Amherst College, are publishing Justices As 'Sacred Symbols': Antonin Scalia and the Cultural Life of the Law in the British Journal of American Legal Studies (2017). Here is the abstract.

The idea of the brilliant and elegant philosopher judge has a long and romanticized history. From Sir Edward Coke, William Blackstone and Joseph Story to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis and Lord Bingham, the common law is replete with this vision of judging. In this vision, judges sometimes seem to be law makers as much as faithful it interpreters. In many ways Antonin Scalia fought against this traditional vision of the philosopher judge. He disliked activist judges who imposed their idea of wisdom on elected legislatures; in fact, he trumpeted his jurisprudence for its fidelity to law and deference to the popular will. But even though Scalia fought against the romantic vision of philosopher judge, he himself became a living symbol of a judicial philosophy, a symbol so powerful that sometimes it was difficult to disentangle the judge from his jurisprudence. His status as a symbol and how he achieved his status, was much different from the route of the judges mentioned above. This paper attempts to explain how Scalia became what we call a judicial “sacred symbol”.

Download the article from SSRN at the link. 

Arapinis and Condello on The Intentionality Behind Legal Concepts and Their Extensional Boundaries

Alexandra Arapinis, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISCT-CNR), and Angela Condello, University of Rome III, Department of Law, have published The Intensionality Behind Legal Concepts and Their Extensional Boundaries: Between Conventionalism and Interpretivism at 29 Ratio Juris 439 (2016). Here is the abstract.

This article constitutes an attempt to reexamine a crucial issue of legal theory from the perspective of philosophy of language and of social ontology: by analyzing a jurisprudential case recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, we explain how Searle's account on rules in The Construction of Social Reality constitutes an important starting point for the clarification of the old jurisprudential debate between conventionalism and interpretivism. In a nutshell, we show that Searle's framework, while strictly conventionalist, makes it possible to conceive of the distinction between the semantic content of rules (their intended purpose) and their extension, by drawing a parallel with the idea of “deep conventions” (and “essential rules”) as well as with the semantic conventions in natural language. The paper thus touches on the broader problem of the relations between legal concepts and nonlegal values (law and morality).

The text of the article is not available from SSRN.

Voss @Juss_Professor on the Royal Prerogative in Colonial Constitutional Law

Satvinder Juss, King's College London; Dickson Poon School of Law; A. Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute, is publishing The Royal Prerogative in Colonial Constitutional Law as Chapter 11 of Landmark Cases in Public Law (Juss and Sunkin, eds., Hart-Bloomsbury, 2017). Here is the abstract.

The Chagos Islanders Case will be remembered for its abandonment of the common law’s affirmation of a Subject’s right to be free from exile, when more than a decade ago the British Government in the exercise of its imperial powers decided upon the permanent exclusion of an entire population from its homeland for reasons unconnected with their collective well-being. Paradoxically, freedom from exile is a right guaranteed in the folklore of the UK, as demonstrated only too vividly in the celebrations of the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta in 2015. A judgment given by Laws LJ in the Divisional Court in 2000 when the matter first arose in challenge brought by Louis Oliver Bancoult, a Chagos Islander, against the actions of the British Goverment, and subsequently affirmed most resoundingly by Sedley LJ in the Court of Appeal in 2007, had upheld this historic right. They had held that government objectives could not lawfully be accomplished by the use of prerogative powers. The Crown has to exercise governance over the Colonies as a Crown function. The interests of these territories are not coterminous with interests of the UK state and its allies. The governance of each colonial territory is in constitutional principle a discrete function of the Crown. However, in 2008 the House of Lords (as it then was) overturned these decisions, only to revisit the question again in judgment delivered in 2016, thus demonstrating the particularly protracted and vexatious nature of the issues which the Government had sought to determine through the ill-judged mechanism of the Royal Prerogative. The Bancoult saga is the longest Supreme court case ever heard. The 2008 decision was not its last. In 2016 the Supreme Court gave a split decision, but which nonetheless still fully acknowledged that its earlier 2008 decision had moved the law forward and that, in the words of Lord Mance giving the majority decision (and who had also given judgment in 2008), the exercise of prerogative powers were “susceptible to judicial review on ordinary principles of legality, rationality and procedural impropriety.” Yet, the plight of the Chagos Islanders remained unchanged in 2008 as it did in 2016 – such that further legal challenges remain likely. The story is not yet over and this analysis is an attempt to locate the Bancoult litigation in its proper political context and to suggest that the House of Lords in 2008 could – and indeed should – have a taken a different decision for reasons connected entirely to the fact that the Government was using prerogative powers in the context of colonial governance.This has serious implications both for the future use of the Prerogative and for Public Law in general.

Download the chapter from SSRN at the link.

Hollywood and Concrete Poetry. And Aliens.

Via @davidgissen:

David Gissen, a professor at California College of the Arts, tweets that

Amy Adams writes inter-galactic, digital concrete poetry to communicate with aliens in the trailer for The Arrival.

Here's a link to the official trailer for the film. 

More about concrete poetry here.

But is she breaking the law to make contact with aliens?

Here's the text of the (repealed in 1991) U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (not the U. S. Code), dealing with exposure to extraterrestrial contaminants, which used to regulate U.S. citizen contact with extraterrestrial material (including alien life). It was put in place just before the successful Moon landing in 1969.

4 CFR Ch. 5 (1-1-91 Edition)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
PART 1211--EXTRATERRESTRIAL EXPOSURE Sec.
1211.100 Scope.
1211.101 Applicability.
1211.102 Definitions.
1211.103 Authority.
1211.105 Relationship with Departments of Health, Education, and
Welfare and Agriculture.
1211.106 Cooperation with States, territories and possessions.
1211.107 Court or other process.
1211.108 Violations. Authority: Secs. 203, 304, 72 Stat. 429, 433; 42 U.S.C. 2455, 2456,
2473; 18 U.S.C. 799; Art. IX, TIAS 6347 (18 UST 2416). Source: 34 FR 11975, July 16, 1969, unless otherwise noted. S1211.100 Scope.
This part establishes:
(a) NASA policy, responsibility and authority to guard the Earth
against any harmful contamination or adverse changes in its environment
resulting from personnel, spacecraft and other property returning to the
Earth after landing on or coming within the atmospheric envelope of a
celestial body; and
(b) Security requirements, restrictions and safeguards that are
necessary in the interest of the national security. S1211.101 Applicability.
The provisions of this part apply to all NASA manned and unmanned
space missions which land on or come within the atmospheric envelope of a
celestial body and return to Earth. S1211.102 Definitions.
(a) _NASA_ and the _Administrator_ mean, respectively the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration or his authorized
representative (see S1204.509 of this chapter).
(b) _Extraterrestrially exposed_ means the state or condition of any
person, property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever, who or
which has:
(1) Touched directly or come within the atmospheric envelope of any
other celestial body; or
(2) Touched directly or been in close proximity to (or been exposed
indirectly to) any person, property, animal or other form of life or
matter who or which has been extraterrestrially exposed by virtue of
paragraph (b)(1) of this section.
For example, if person or thing "A" touches the surface
of the moon, and on "A's" return to Earth, "B" touches
"A" and subsequently, "C" touches "B", all of these--
"A" through "C" inclusive--would be extraterrestrially
exposed ("A" and "B" directly; "C" indirectly).
(c) _Quarantine_ means the detention, examination and decontamination
of any person, property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever
that is extraterrestrially exposed, and includes the apprehension or
seizure of such person, property, animal or other form of life or matter
whatever.
(d) _Quarantine period_ means a period of consecutive calendar days
as may be established in accordance with S1211.104(a).
(e) _United States_ means the 50 States, the District of Columbia,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa
and any other territory or possession of the United States, and in a
territorial sense all places and waters subject to the jurisdiction of
the United States. S1211.103 Authority.
(a) Sections 203 and 204 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of
1958, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2474, 2455 and 2456).
(b) 18 U.S.C. 799.
(c) Article IX, Outer Space Treaty, TIAS 6347 (18UST 2416).
(d) NASA Management Instructions 1052.90 and 8020.13. S1211.104 Policy.
(a) _Administrative actions._ The Administrator or his designee as
authorized by S1204.509 of this chapter shall in his discretion:
(1) Determine the beginning and duration of a quarantine period with
respect to any space mission; the quarantine period as it applies to
various life forms will be announced.
(2) Designate in writing quarantine officers to exercise quarantine
authority.
(3) Determine that a particular person, property, animal or other
form of life or matter whatever is extraterrestrially exposed and
quarantine such person, property, animal or other form of life or matter
whatever. The quarantine may be based only on a determination, with or
without the benefit of a hearing, that there is probable cause to believe
that such person, property, animal or other form of life or matter
whatever is extraterrestrially exposed.
(4) Determine within the United States or within vessels or vehicles
of the United States the place, boundaries, and rules of operation of
necessary quarantine stations.
(5) Provide for guard services by contract or otherwise, as may be
necessary, to maintain security and inviolability of quarantine stations
and quarantined persons, property, animals, or other form of life or
matter whatever.
(6) Provide for the subsistence, health, and welfare of persons
quarantined under the provisions of this part.
(7) Hold such hearings at such times, in such a manner and for such
purposes as may be desirable or necessary under this part, including
hearings for the purpose of creating a record for use in making any
determination under this part or for the purpose of reviewing any such
determination.
(8) Cooperate with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
and the Department of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of
S1211.105.
(9) Take such other actions as may be prudent or necessary and which
are consistent with this part.
(b) _Quarantine._ (1) During any period of announced quarantine, the
property within the posted perimeter of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at
the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tex., is designated as the NASA
Lunar Receiving Laboratory Quarantine Station.
(2) Other quarantine stations may be established if determined
necessary as provided in paragraph (a)(4) of this section.
(3) During any period of announced quarantine, no person shall enter
or depart from the limits of any quarantine station without permission of
the cognizant NASA quarantine officer. During such period, the posted
perimeter of a quarantine station shall be secured by armed guard.
(4) Any person who enters the limits of any quarantine station during
the quarantine period shall be deemed to have consented to the quarantine
of his person if it is determined that he is or has become
extraterrestrially exposed.
(5) At the earliest practicable time, each person who is quarantined
by NASA shall be given a reasonable opportunity to communicate by
telephone with legal counsel or other persons of his choice. S1211.105 Relationship with Departments of Health, Education and
Welfare and Agriculture.
(a) If either the Department of Health, Education and Welfare or the
Department of Agriculture exercises its authority to quarantine an
extraterrestrially exposed person, property, animal or other form of life
or matter whatever, NASA will, except as provided in paragraph (c) of
this section, not exercise the authority to quarantine that same person,
property, animal, or other form of life or matter whatever. In such
cases, NASA will offer to these departments the use of the Lunar
Receiving Laboratory Quarantine Station and such other service,
equipment, personnel, and facilities as may be necessary to ensure an
effective quarantine.
(b) If neither the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare or
the Department of Agriculture exercises its quarantine authority. NASA
shall exercise the authority to quarantine and extraterrestrially exposed
person, property, animal, or other form of life or matter whatever. In
such cases, NASA will inform these departments of such quarantine action
and, in addition, may request the use of such service, equipment,
personnel and facilities of other Federal departments and agencies as may
be necessary to ensure an effective quarantine.
(c) NASA shall quarantine NASA astronauts and other NASA personnel
as determined necessary and all NASA property involved in any space
mission. S1211.106 Cooperation with States, territories, and possessions.
(a) Actions taken in accordance with the provisions of this part
shall be exercised in cooperation with the applicable authority of any
State, territory, possession or any political subdivision thereof. S1211.107 Court or other process.
(a) NASA officers and employees are prohibited from discharging from
the limits of a quarantine station any quarantined person, property,
animal or other form of life or matter whatever during order or other
request, order or demand an announced quarantine period in compliance
with subpoena, show cause of any court or other authority without the
prior approval of the General Counsel and the Administrator.
(b) Where approval to discharge a quarantined person, property,
animal, or other form of life or matter whatever in compliance with such
a request, order or demand of any court or other authority is not given,
the person to whom it is directed shall, if possible, appear in court or
before the other authority and respectfully state his inability to
comply, relying for his action upon this S1211.107. S1211.108 Violations.
Whoever willfully violates, attempts to violate, or conspires to
violate any provision of this part or any regulation or order issued
under t his part or who enters or departs from the limits of any
quarantine station in disregard of the quarantine rules or regulations
or without permission of the NASA quarantine officer shall be fined not
more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both (18 U.S.C.
799).

Boldly go.

Colin Kidd's New Book: The World of Mr. Casaubon (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Via @maksdelmar:

Colin Kidd, University of St. Andrews, has published The World of Mr Casaubon: Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) (Ideas In Context). Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's content.

The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and futility. Crossing conventional disciplinary boundaries, Colin Kidd excavates Casaubon's hinterland, and illuminates the fierce ideological war which raged over the use of pagan myths to defend Christianity from the existential threat posed by radical Enlightenment criticism. Notwithstanding Eliot's portrayal of Casaubon, Anglican mythographers were far from unworldly, and actively rebutted the radical freethinking associated with the Enlightenment and French Revolution. Orientalism was a major theatre in this ideological conflict, and mythography also played an indirect but influential role in framing the new science of anthropology. The World of Mr Casaubon is rich in interdisciplinary twists and ironies, and paints a vivid picture of the intellectual world of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

Illuminates the intellectual background to George Eliot's classic novel Middlemarch and one of its iconic central characters

Recovers a lost genre of religious apologetic based on a Christian appropriation of paganism, enhancing readers' understanding of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century defences of Christianity

Casts fresh light from an unexpected angle on political debate during the French Revolution and provides deeper insight into the phenomenon of Orientalism

 

Loathsome Lawyers From Literature: A List From Attorney/Author Alex Wade @SurfNation1

Alex Wade's list of unpalatable literary lawyers: from Dr. Gonzo (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) to Don Sebastiano (The Day of Judgment).

Alex Wade is a writer who also practices media law (Carter-Ruck). His latest book is Flack's Last Shift (Blue Mark Books, 2016).

Ngaire Naffine: Law's Meaning of Life (Hart Publishing, 2009) @hartpublishing

 

ICYMI:

Ngaire Naffine, Law's Meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person (Hart Publishing, 2009) (Legal Theory Today). Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's contents.

The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is 'What is law?' or perhaps 'What is the nature of law?' This book poses an associated, but no less fundamental, question about law which has received much less attention in the legal literature. It is: 'Who is law for?' Whenever people go to law, they are judged for their suitability as legal persons. They are given or refused rights and duties on the basis of ideas about who matters. These ideas are basic to legal-decision making; they form the intellectual and moral underpinning of legal thought. They help to determine whether law is essentially for rational human beings or whether it also speaks to and for human infants, adults with impaired reasoning, the comotose, foetuses and even animals. Are these the right kind of beings to enter legal relationships and so become legal persons. Are they, for example, sufficiently rational, or sacred or simply human? Is law meant for them? This book reveals and evaluates the type of thinking that goes into these fundamental legal and metaphysical determinations about who should be capable of bearing legal rights and duties. It identifies and analyses four influential ways of thinking about law's person, each with its own metaphysical suppositions. One approach derives from rationalist philosophy, a second from religion, a third from evolutionary biology while the fourth is strictly legalistic and so endeavours to eschew metaphysics altogether. The book offers a clear, coherent and critical account of these complex moral and intellectual processes entailed in the making of legal persons.

"Son of Sam" Movies

Via Discovery ID @DiscoveryID: movies based on the deeds of David Berkowitz and the "Son of Sam" killings. (post by Mike McPadden).  More of Mr. McPadden's true crime and film posts here.

Victor Hugo and the Law: A Workshop and Performance on December 2, 2016 at the University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, Faculty of Law and Political Science

Via @yannbasire and @Yves_Strickler:

A special event on December 2:

Victor Hugo et le droit (Victor Hugo and law), followed by a performance of  "Victor Hugo et George Sand:  et s'ils s'etaient recontrés," (Victor Hugo and George Sand: What if they had met) is scheduled for December 2, 2016 at the Faculté de Droit et Science Politique, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis. Following the workshop will be a performance of Danièle Gasiglia's Victor Hugo et George Sand: et s'ils s'etaient recontrés, at the Valrose Theatre. More here at the event's website.

Loeffler @Jbloeffler on "The Famous Trinity of 1917": Zionist Internationalism in Historical Perspective

James B. Loeffler, University of Virginia, Department of History, is publishing 'The Famous Trinity of 1917': Zionist Internationalism in Historical Perspective in the Simon-Dubnow-Institut Jahrbuch (2016). Here is the abstract.

Despite a plethora of recent new approaches to Jewish political history, the story of interwar Zionism is still consistently framed as a dichotomy between Diaspora rights-advocacy and state-building in Palestine. This article challenges that persistent historiographical trope by recovering the overlooked Jewish political tradition of Zionist internationalism, whose bearers simultaneously pursued the twin goals of political consolidation in a territorial homeland in Palestine and the construction of national autonomy in the Diaspora. Using the case study of Lithuanian Zionist leader and international lawyer Jacob Robinson (1899-1977), this article demonstrates the complementary relationship between autonomist and statist goals in interwar Zionist politics. After tracing Robinson’s rich, complex biography from the 1920s Lithuanian Parliament and the European Congress of National Minorities to the postwar United Nations and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, it concludes with a discussion of the debates engendered by the Eichmann Trial about the relationship between Zionism and international law.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.

Leung on Negotiating Language Status in Multilingual Jurisdictions

Janny H. C. Leung, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Arts, School of English, has published Negotiating Language Status in Multilingual Jurisdictions: Rhetoric and Reality at 209 Semiotica 371 (2016). Here is the abstract.

About a quarter of legal jurisdictions in the world operate in more than one language. Despite this, language policies governing the functioning of law in such jurisdictions, other than in the European Union, rarely receive attention in research. Given, however, that the policy contrast between legal monolingualism and multilingualism is often a matter of strategic response to the rising or declining power of particular language communities, the conferring legal authority on some language(s) but not others calls for analysis. Advocacy and justification surrounding potential or actual change of legal language, for example, consist of competing rhetorics advanced by politicians, legal professionals, and campaign groups, and in this way politics permeates both the promotion and presentation of legal multilingualism, despite reluctance among legal policy makers to engage with this aspect of the process. This article situates legal multilingualism within a wider understanding of multilingualism and language policy. It compares rhetorics of advocacy and justification used across jurisdictions, and analyses contradictions and dilemmas in rhetorics deployed both in promoting and opposing specific proposals. The argument extends Goodrich’s (1984) observation that legal discourse is pre-eminently a discourse of power. But if use of legal language is political, it is suggested, then the process of selecting a language for such use is even more so.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Edwards on Speaking of Stories and Law

Linda H. Edwards, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law, is publishing Speaking of Stories and Law in volume 13 of the Legal Communication & Rhetoric (JALWD) (2016). Here is the abstract.

A recurring question in narrative scholarship has been the relationship of narrative to law. Most narrative scholars agree that stories are central to law. As Stephen Paskey recently pointed out, stories are more than a tool for persuasion. They are embedded in law’s very structure. But how does that work? Are rules just stories articulated in a different form? We have barely begun to explore narrative’s roles, but it is already clear that, in the words of Meryl Streep, “it’s complicated.” A conceptual map of what we’ve learned so far can help us unpack the complexity. Otherwise we may run into two problems: We may be less likely to understand and appreciate each other’s work, and we may have trouble thinking clearly about how law and narrative relate. This article takes a first run at a conceptual map, one that honors the work of narrative scholars of various stripes and explains how the strands in this rich body of work interrelate. With that proposed structure in mind, the article then offers some thoughts about how stories relate to rules. It argues that rules are not the opposite of stories, nor are they just stories in a different form. Rather, at every level of their creation, justification, interpretation, and application, rules are constructed from multiple narrative influences. Understanding these influences will produce judges better able to make good decisions and lawyers better able to perfect their craft. Much work remains to be done, but as the map demonstrates, we are well on our way.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Call For Applications, Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

Via @ThomGiddens, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, SUNY Buffalo, is accepting applications for Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, beginning in Fall 2017.

Here's a link to the online application. Applications are due on or before January 2017.

More information here from the Center's Director.

Baldy Center Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies are available to post-doctoral, mid-career, and senior scholars. This year's application is due January 17, 2017. It is important that all applications be submitted through our web-based system, both so that we can track all applications and so that our reviewers can readily access them.  
Please contact the Baldy Assistant Director (baldyassistantdirector@gmail.com), with any questions about the Fellows Program, and please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested in it. Information on current and past Baldy Fellows is available on the Baldy Center website. 
Cordially,
Errol Meidinger, Director 

Call For Applications: Hurst Summer Institute In Legal History, June 4-17, 2017

Call for Applications

Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History: June 4-17, 2017

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Application Deadline: 12/1/2016

Invitation

The American Society for Legal History and the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School are pleased to invite applications for the ninth biennial Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History. The purpose of the Hurst Institute is to advance the approach to legal scholarship fostered by J. Willard Hurst in his teaching, mentoring, and scholarship. The Hurst Institute assists scholars from law, history, and other disciplines in pursuing research on the legal history of any part of the world.

The 2017 Hurst Institute will be led by Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law and Legal Studies (with History affiliation) at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The two‑week program features presentations by guest scholars, discussions of core readings in legal history, and analysis of the work of the participants in the Institute. The ASLH Hurst Selection Committee will select twelve Fellows to participate in this event.

Applicant Qualifications

Scholars in law, history and other disciplines pursuing research on legal history of any part of the world are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to applications from scholars at an early stage of their career (beginning faculty members, doctoral students who have completed or almost completed their dissertations, and J.D. graduates with appropriate backgrounds).

Fellowship Requirements

Fellows are expected to be in residence for the entire two‑week term of the Institute, to participate in all program activities of the Institute, and to give an informal works‑in‑progress presentation in the second week of the Institute.

Application Process

(1) Submit the following materials in a single pdf file starting with your last name to ils@law.wisc.edu. Multiple attachments will not be accepted.

·         Curriculum Vitae with your complete contact information.

·         Statement of Purpose (maximum 500 words) describing your current work, specific research interests, and the broader perspectives on legal history that inform your work.

(2) Arrange to have two letters of recommendation sent electronically as a pdf files (these must be on institutional letterhead and signed) toils@law.wisc.edu by the deadline.

Please note that late or incomplete applications will not be accepted.

Additional Information: http://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/hurst_institute.htm

Questions: Contact ils@law.wisc.edu

Joerges on Brexit and Academic Citizenship

Christian Joerges, University of Bremen Faculty of Law and Hertie School of Governance, has published Brexit and Academic Citizenship as EUI Department of Law Working Paper No. 2016/20. Here is the abstract.

This working paper collects a series of personal reflections on the outcome of the Brexit referendum. The essays do not engage with the legal and constitutional issues that arise from this event – these aspects have received comment elsewhere. Rather, the editor has solicited personal reflections from a group whose scholarly journey included the European University Institute, a hub for transforming, and integrating Europe. Aware of this privileged positions, the authors shed light on how the result of the referendum and its aftermath may impact the UK and the European Union.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Socio-Legal Studies Association, 2017, Newcastle University, April 5-7, 2017: Call For Papers

Via Thomas Giddens @ThomGiddens, news of

Graphic Justice

This stream invites submissions exploring the intersections of law and justice with comics, graphic fiction, and related visual media.

Critical interest in the comics medium has exploded in recent decades, and is steadily growing within the legal academy. Indeed, comics and graphic fiction—and their related visual emanations, including film, video games, and wider ‘geek culture’—are of huge and on-going significance to law, justice, and legal studies.

On a socio-cultural level, comics are historically embroiled in debates of free speech whilst today they inspire countless pop culture adaptations—from television to cinema to video games, as well as performance activities such as cosplay—and can be seen to reflect and shape popular visions of justice, morality, politics, and law.

On the level of content, from mainstream superhero narratives tackling overt issues of justice, governance and authority, to countless themes related to morality, justice, and humanity in stories within and far beyond the mainstream, comics are rich with legal material. On the level of form, the comics medium’s unique and restless blending of different media and types of representation (text, image, visuality, aesthetics, inter alia) radically opens up discourse beyond the confines of the word, enabling greater critical engagement amidst our increasingly visual age.

On the level of production, comics are a complex art-form, with multiple creators working in individual, group, commercial, and industrial contexts, raising questions of ownership and exploitation—issues exacerbated by comics’ transmedia proliferation. In short, comics and their related visual media bring rich cultural, practical, and aesthetic contexts and mediations to long-standing and emerging legal problems and settings. Broad questions framing this ‘graphic justice’ intersection might include: What are the relationships between comics and related visual media, and law—culturally, socially, formally, theoretically, jurisprudentially...? How can we use comics and related visual media in law—in practice, education, theory, research...? Can we consider comics as objects of legal regulation in their own right—raising issues of definition, ownership, consumption, value...? The crossover between law, comics, and related media is an expansive and open one. The examples above are merely indicative of possible issues and questions; the graphic justice stream welcomes submissions for papers that traverse any potential intersection between law and comics or related visual media—all broadly defined. ​

Conveners Angus Nurse, Thomas Giddens and David Yuratich

Popular TV Shows Have Messages About the Workplace

From the Independent: What popular tv series can teach you about teamwork, and other things, including casual Fridays, and giving that IT guy some recognition.

New From Hart Publishing @hartpublishing: Law In Theory and History, Edited by Maks Del Mar @maksdelmar and Michael Lobban @LSELaw

New from Hart Publishing: Law in Theory and History: New Essays on a Neglected Dialogue (Maksymilian Del Mar and Michael Lobban eds., Hart Publishing, 2016). Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's contents.

This collection of original essays brings together leading legal historians and theorists to explore the oft-neglected but important relationship between these two disciplines. Legal historians have often been sceptical of theory. The methodology which informs their own work is often said to be an empirical one, of gathering information from the archives and presenting it in a narrative form. The narrative produced by history is often said to be provisional, insofar as further research in the archives might falsify present understandings and demand revisions. On the other side, legal theorists are often dismissive of historical works. History itself seems to many theorists not to offer any jurisprudential insights of use for their projects: at best, history is a repository of data and examples, which may be drawn on by the theorist for her own purposes. The aim of this collection is to invite participants from both sides to ask what lessons legal history can bring to legal theory, and what legal theory can bring to history. What is the theorist to do with the empirical data generated by archival research? What theories should drive the historical enterprise, and what wider lessons can be learned from it? This collection brings together a number of major theorists and legal historians to debate these ideas.

 

Jacqueline O'Connor's New Book: Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams's America

ICYMI: Jacqueline O'Connor, Professor of English, Boise State University, has published Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams's America (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, dist. by Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) (Law, Culture, and the Humanities Series). Here is a description of the book's contents from the publisher's website.

Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams’s work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or behavior that cross heteronormative boundaries of the mid-century period. Several of these studies have positioned Williams and his work amid the public tensions in American life over roughly four decades, from 1940–1980, as notions of equality and freedom of choice challenged prejudice and repression in law and in society. To date, however, neither Williams’s homosexuality nor his persistent representations of sexual transgressions have been examined as legal matters that challenged the rule of law. Directed by legal history and informed by multiple strands of Williams’s studies criticism, textual, and cultural, this book explores the interplay of select topics defined and debated in law’s texts with those same topics in Williams’s personal and imaginative texts. By tracing the obscure and the transparent representations of homosexuality, specifically, and diverse sexualities more generally, through selected stories and plays, the book charts the intersections between Williams’s literature and the laws that governed the period. His imaginative works, backlit by his personal documents and historical and legal records from the period, underscore his preoccupation with depictions of diverse sexualities throughout his career. His use of legal language and its varied effects on his texts demonstrate his work’s multiple and complex intersection with major twentieth-century concerns, including significant legal and cultural dialogues about identity formation, intimacy, privacy, and difference.

 

William G. Ross's New Book on World War I and the American Constitution (Cambridge University Press)

William G. Ross, Samford University School of Law, is publishing World War I and the American Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Here is a description of the book's contents from the publisher's website.

The First World War profoundly affected the American political system by transforming constitutional law and providing the predicate for the modern administrative state. In this groundbreaking study, William G. Ross examines the social, political, economic and legal forces that generated this rapid change. Ross explains how the war increased federal and state economic regulatory powers, transferred power from Congress to the President, and altered federalism by enhancing the powers of the federal government. He demonstrates how social changes generated by the war provided a catalyst for the expansion of personal liberties, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the rights of women, racial minorities, and industrial workers. Through a study of constitutional law, gender, race, economics, labor, the prohibition movement, international relations, civil liberties, and society, this book provides a major contribution to our understanding of the development of the American Constitution.

Analyzes both the economic and non-economic aspects of federal and state regulation during the First World War

Draws on extensive research and a range of original primary source materials

Provides a fresh perspective on the development of the American Constitution

Matthew Crow's New Book on Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection

Matthew Crow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, is publishing Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Here is a description of the book's contents from the publisher's website.

In this innovative book, historian Matthew Crow unpacks the legal and political thought of Thomas Jefferson as a tool for thinking about constitutional transformation, settler colonialism, and race and civic identity in the era of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson's practices of reading, writing, and collecting legal history grew out of broader histories of early modern empire and political thought. As a result of the peculiar ways in which he theorized and experienced the imperial crisis and revolutionary constitutionalism, Jefferson came to understand a republican constitution as requiring a textual, material culture of law shared by citizens with the cultivated capacity to participate in such a culture. At the center of the story in Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection, Crow concludes, we find legal history as a mode of organizing and governing collective memory, and as a way of instituting a particular form of legal subjectivity.

Sheds new light on Jefferson's thinking through original archival research and situates Jefferson's intellectual practice in a variety of contexts such as legal history and colonialism

Focuses on a single figure while showing the historical and theoretical relationships between legal, political, and historical thought in the early modern Atlantic world and the founding of the United States

Expands our understanding of the history and politics of historical thought by putting Jefferson's use of history in dialogue with the present

John Baker's Forthcoming Book on the Reinvention of Magna Carta, 1216-1616

John Baker, Cambridge University, is publishing The Reinvention of Magna Carta, 1216-1616 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History). Here is a description of the book's contents from the publisher's website.

Magna Carta was largely ineffective for practical purposes between the fourteenth century and the sixteenth, late-medieval law lectures giving no hint of its later importance. A treatise by William Fleetwood (c.1558) was still in the traditional mould, but the lectures of the 'Puritan' barrister and MP Robert Snagge in 1581, and the speeches and tracts of his colleagues, advocated new uses for it. After centuries of oblivion, in 1587 there were eight reported cases in which chapter 29 was cited. Sir Edward Coke made extensive claims for chapter 29, linking it with habeas corpus, and then as a judge (1606–16) he deployed it with effect in challenging encroachments on the common law and the liberty of the subject. This book ends in 1616 with the lectures of Francis Ashley, summarising the effects of the new learning, and then Coke's dismissal for pushing his case too hard. A challenging new account.

Provides a new history of early modern constitutional law, concentrating on the protection of personal liberties through recourse to Magna Carta

Shows how constitutional developments occurred in practice, looking at real cases and highlighting the importance of unpublished legal texts

Includes new biographical and bibliographical material, which will be of interest to historians both of historical thought and of legal literature

Representative John Lewis and the Graphic Novel

Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia) has won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work for his second graphic novel, and the second volume in his autobiography, March, Book Two (published in 2015). Co-winners are Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell. The book continues Representative Lewis' memoir of his work and experiences during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Read more here:

Erin Blackmore, Remembering the Civil Rights Movement...With Comics, JSTOR Daily.

Kim Lacy Rogers, Oral History and the History of the Civil Rights Movement, 75 Journal of American History 567-576 (September 1988).

A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV Now Available For Purchase From Hart Publishing @hartpublishing

Now available for purchase:

A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV (Peter Robson and Jennifer L. Schulz) (Hart Publishing, 2016). 

This collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of scholars in different jurisdictions. Each chapter looks at the raw data of how much "justice" material viewers were able to access in the multi-channel world of 2014 looking at three phases: apprehension (police), adjudication (lawyers), and disposition (prison/punishment).

All of the authors indicate how television developed in their countries. Some have extensive public service channels mixed with private media channels. Financing ranges from advertising to programme sponsorship to licensing arrangements. A few countries have mixtures of these. Each author also examines how "TV justice" has developed in their own particular jurisdiction. Readers will find interesting variations and thought-provoking similarities. There are a lot of television shows focussed on legal themes that are imported around the world. The authors analyse these as well.This book is a must-read for anyone interested in law, popular culture, TV, or justice and provides an important addition to the literature due to its grounding in empirical data. 

DeGryuter's Law and Literature Series So Far

A complete list of volumes available in DeGryuter's Law &  Literature Series.

Peter Schneck, Rhetoric and Evidence; Legal Conflict and Literary Representation in U.S. American Culture (2011) (Law and Literature; 1).

Bioethics and Biolaw Through Literature (Daniela Carpi, ed., 2011). (Law and Literature; 2).

Helle Porsdam and Thomas Elholm, Dialogues on Justice: European Perspectives on Law and Humanities (2012) (Law and Literature; 3).

Visualizing Law and Authority: Essays on Legal Aesthetics (Leif Dahlberg, ed., 2012 (Law and Literature; 4).

Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theater: Nordic Perspectives (Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, ed., 2013). (Law and Literature; 5).

Liminal Discourses: Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature (Daniela Carpi and Jeanne Gaakeer, eds., 2013). (Law and Literature; 6).

 Franziska Quabeck, Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare (2013). (Law and Literature; 7).

Greta Olson, Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso (2013). (Law and Literature; 8). 

Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse (Ian Ward, ed., 2015) (Law and Literature; 9).

Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation (Eugenio Amato, Francesco Citti, and Bart Huelsenbeck, eds.; 2015)(Law and Literature; 10).

Performing the Renaissance Body: Essays on Drama, Law, and Representation (John Drakakis and Sidia Fiorato, eds.; 2016) (Law and Literature; 11).

Diaspora, Law and Literature (Klaus Stierstorger and Daniela Carpi, eds.; 2016) (Law and Literature; 12).

Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context (Daniela Carpi and Marett Leiboff, eds.; 2016) (Law and Literature; 13).

Wilson @richardawilson7 on Propaganda and History in International Criminal Trials

Richard Ashby Wilson, University of Connecticut School of Law, is publishing Propaganda and History in International Criminal Trials in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (2016). Here is the abstract.

In the course of prosecuting crimes against humanity, international criminal tribunals from the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court (ICC) have provided accounts of the origins and causes of mass atrocities. Their historical narratives exhibit a common feature that has not been remarked upon, and that is the central role they assign to political propaganda in explaining popular participation in mass crimes. Judges have invoked propaganda to answer one of the most vexing questions at international criminal tribunals: why neighbor turned against neighbor and committed extreme acts of collective violence in contexts characterized by long periods of co-existence. This article evaluates the evidence for claims regarding the role of propaganda and concludes that eyewitness evidence for the causal role of propaganda is often slender and unconvincing. Insiders and material perpetrators more often than not repudiate their original testimony amid allegations of intimidation and bribery. At times, judges have balked at expert evidence on propaganda and refused to recognize it as germane to a criminal trial. Given the relative paucity of evidence for a directly causal role, why has propaganda become one of the overarching narratives that international courts employ to explain atrocities during armed conflicts? How does the model of causation customarily used in criminal law shape the kind of histories that international courts write? In answering these questions, the article refers to the unique model of causation used in criminal law, the apolitical nature of propaganda as an historical explanation, and the moral expressivist function of criminal courts.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.