Law & Humanities Blog

ICYMI: Robert Barsky,  Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution (Bloomsbury, 20...

 From Dr. Steven Howe, University of Lucerne: CFP: Law and the Humanities World (1 & 2 September, Lucerne)   In Humanities Theory (2...

Giuseppe Martinico, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, has published Frames of Injustice: Comics As Constitutional Critique; Marcos De In...

David Gindis, University of Warwick Law School and Steven G. Medema, Duke University, Department of Economics, have published Henry Manne, P...

Robert Stevens, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, has published Private Law and Statute . Here is the abstract. A paper on the relations...

David Clark, Emeritus Professor of Law, Flinders University, has published The Knowledge of the Law is like a Deep Well: Coke and Bonham...

Jocelyn Simonson, Brooklyn Law School, and Zohra Ahmed, Boston University School of Law, are publishing Legal Satire in an Age of Political ...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Detective Fiction in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature,...

Zareen Banu has published The Butterfly Effect in Law: How One Legal Decision Shapes Societal Psyche. Here is the abstract. Legal decisio...

Newly published: Ari Z. Bryen, Vanderbilt University, has published The Judgment of the Provinces: The Roman Empire and the Origins of Law a...

Newly published: Paul Kléber Monod, Middlebury College, has published Think of England: Nation, People, and Race im the English Imagination ...

Lorenzo Casini, The Institute for Advanced Studies, has published Who Owns the Past? Politics and Law in the Restitution of Cultural Propert...

Scott Fruehwald, Independent Scholar, has published Theory-Induced Blindness in Legal Scholarship: A Critical Thinking Solution. The truth...

  Extended deadline: The final deadline for applications has been extended to May 10th ! "Law in Transit - Moving Subjects, Universal...

Jalal Tarar, Independent Scholar, and Shahbaz Tara, University of London, have published Constitutional Ghosts: Myth, Metaphysics, and the A...

Brian Blumenfeld, Independent Scholar, has published Splitting the Atom of Sovereignty: Ancient Greece and the Origins of American Federalis...

 From Anne Wagner, University of Lille: Call for Papers: Repositioning Criminal Justice: Critical Reimaginings.   This collection explor...

Emma Kaufman, New York University School of Law, has published The First Criminal Procedure Revolution . Here is the abstract. Today, it ...

Andrew R. DeLoach, Trinity Law School, has published Antigone, Autonomy, and Higher Lawlessness . Here is the abstract. The first survivin...

Dennis J. Wieboldt, III, University of Notre Dame, is publishing "Shall We Settle for Anything Less Than Complete Equality?" Catho...

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 (...