Law & Humanities Blog

Sonia Mittal, Yale University Law School, Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University, and Barry R. Weingast, Stanford University Department of Poli...

Frederic R. Kellogg, George Washington University; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), has published Scrooge, The Trolley Dilemma, An...

Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Law School, has published Files, Dust, Law. Here is the abst...

Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça, Professor ITAM Law, has published On Being Human in Samanta Schweblin's "Kentukis/Little Eyes: A No...

  CALL FOR PAPERS   TOURO LAW REVIEW – SPECIAL ISSUE ON LEGAL HUMOR                 Are you funny? Were you the life of the party ...

Clara Piano, University of Mississippi Department of Economics, and Enio Piano have published The Medieval Origins of Spousal Consent . Here...

Anton Chaevitch, Harvard University Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Creighton University School of Law, Columbia Journal o...

From Peter Goodrich, Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law: Intrepid Team, Tireless Textual Troubadours, Tanq...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag; has published A Wig Without a Home: The Comedic Wisdom of Sir Frederick P...

From Steven Howe, Associate Director for Institute for Interdisciplinary Disciplinary Legal Studies, Lucernaiuris . Call for Applications: C...

Forthcoming: Daniel Newman, Law and Justice in Song: Murder Ballads and Popular Music (Routledge Publishing, 2026)(Transforming Legal Histor...

Rebecca Eisenberg, University of Michigan Law School, and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Univers...

Forthcoming from Princeton University Press: Carla Hesse, The People’s Justice: Revolutionary Law and the Founding of the French Republic (...

Alli Orr Larsen and Thomas McSweeney, both of William & Mary Law School, are publishing Medieval Treatises and the Judicial Search for a...

  The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is currently accepting submissions for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Awar...

Michael L. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Law, has published Holistic Constitutional Interpretation . Here is the abstract. This...

Jacob D. Charles, Pepperdine University School of Law, and Jonah B. Gelbach, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, have publish...

Megan T. Stevenson, University of Virginia School of Law, and Robynn Cox, UC Riverside, University of Southern California, Schaeffer Center ...

Jed H. Shugerman, Boston University School of Law, and Zach S. Handelsman, McGill University, Department of Political Science, have publishe...

Nina Varsava, University of Wisconsin Law School, and Bill Watson, University of Illinois College of Law, have published Originalism's G...

Kent McNeil, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published T he Intertemporal Law Doctrine’s Application to the Acquisition of Colonies in the Amer...

Nicholas Stump, West Virginia College of Law, has published Historical Beginnings: Appalachian Coal and the Coming of Industrial Capitalism ...

Daniel B. Yeager, California Western School of Law, has published Discursive Footnotes . Here is the abstract. This essay offers a comprehe...

From Peter Schneck, Director, OSI (Osnabrueck Summer Institute) Announcing the 2026 International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultura...

Alessandro Volpi, Max Planck Institute fr the Study of Crime, Security and Law, has published Legal and Political Constitutionalism from Sch...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag; has published One Complicated Hou in Regulation and Imagination: Legal, ...

Dan E. Stigall, George Washington University Law School; U. S. Department of Justice, has published The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French L...

 Forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press: Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University, Frederick Douglass's Newspapers (2026).  Here...

Newly published: Paul Mitchell, University College London, Faculty of Laws, has published Gaskell and the Law (Hart Publishing, 2025). ...

Matthew W. Perry and Kimberley Brownlee, both of the University of British Columbia Department of Philosophy, have published The Socially Fr...

Imelda Maher, University College Dublin School of Law, has published Teaching Hope: An Interdisciplinary Challenge as LSE Legal Studies Wor...

Tola Amodu, University of East Anglia, Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics Law School, Jill Marshall, Royal Holloway University of Lond...

Elen Stokes, University of Bristol, has published Hope as an Object of Legal Scholarship as LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 31/2025. He...

ICYMI: Cynthia D. Bond, UIC School of Law, has published Representations of Law and Race Revisited: An Updated Survey of Recent American Fi...

Tanzil Chowdhury, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, is publishing Toward a Historical Materialist Account of British Constitut...

From Laura Little, Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law: The International Society for Humor Studies is soliciting abstracts ...

Alexander Walker, Columbia University Law School, has published Vagueness' Three Faces as a Columbia Public Law Research Paper. Here is...

Mary Anne Franks, George Washington University Law School, is publishing Little Fascists Everywhere: The National Socialist Playbook of Trum...

Ignacio Adrian Lerer has published Law as Language: From Scandinavian Realism to Evolutionary Jurisprudence . Here is the abstract. This p...

Francisco Fabiany Molina Bustos and Jenny Alejandra Pérez Páez, both of the Social Sciences Observatory and Human Resources in  Ibagué/  Edu...