Law & Humanities Blog

Paul F. Accornero has published The Chartered Agent: How the City of London Wrote the Legal Architecture of Agentic Commerce in 1555 . Here ...

Andrew R. DeLoach, Trinity Law School, is publishing Antigone, Autonomy, and Higher Lawlessness in Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Here i...

From the Law and Society Association: The Law and Society Association is excited to continue the work of the Michele Bratcher Goodwin Fello...

Travis Gilly, Real Safety AI Foundation, has published The Corporate Villainy of Tom Sawyer: Manufactured Scarcity, the Ethics of Attention,...

From Anne Wagner, research Associate Professor, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (CGU Calais) Call for Papers – 27th International ...

Soon available for purchase: Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, eds., New York Universit...

Laura Portuondo, University of Houston Law Center, has published What Personhood Means at 124 Mich. L. Rev. 1303(2026). Here is the abstrac...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School, is publishing State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country: A History in volume 133 of the Virginia...

Jonathan Green, University of Florida College of Law, is publishing What the Declaration Didn't Do in volume 101 of the Notre Dame Law ...

Robert J Spitzer, SUNY Cortland; College of William & Mary School of Law, has published The Historic Regulation of “Unusual” Weapons . H...

Michael L. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Yoo Jung Chang, Quad City Symphony Orchestra, have published Stravinsky's N...

Michael H. Hoffheimer, University of Mississippi School of Law, is publishing Home of the Brave, Land of the Free: The Star-Spangled Banner...

Jimmy Mahardhika, Inspired Research Collective, has published The Spirit Before Law: A Philosophical Reconstruction of Javanese Spirits as S...

Curtis Segarra, University of Michigan Law School, is publishing Tattoos and the Unreasonable Logic of Reasonable Suspicion in volume 63 of...

Shin-Chun Steven Chien, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law, has published Cultivating Sense: Cultural Change in the Prosecutor...

Etienne C. Toussaint, University of South Carolina School of Law, has published After the Comet: Du Bois, Afrofuturism, and Constitutional R...

Forthcoming from Yale University Press: Sergei Antonov, Russia’s Rogue Masters: Elite Criminal Trials in the Age of Reform, 1866-1884 (to ...

Tal Kastner, Rutegers Law School, is publishing Law and Literature in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy (John L...

Randall Stephenson and Christopher Murphy, both of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, have published In the ...

Rashed M. Aba-Namay, National Law Center, has published Legal and Administrative Traditions Across Medieval Legal Cultures: Personnel Networ...

Jerry L. Anderson, Drake University Law School, has published The Battle for Lower Manhattan: Trinity Church versus the Bogardus Heirs . Her...

From Amy Kellam, IALS, University of London: A month ago, I shared the call for papers for a special section of Amicus Curiae on Law and Cu...

 Daniel Solove on the tv series The Audacity, technology, and privacy. 

  Call for Applications for Visiting Fellows 2027,  Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne   The Institute...

Devon W. Carbado, UCLA School of Law, is publishing Can you be Black and Teach that? in the New York University Law Review. Here is the abs...

From Solove on Tech: Snoopers, Peepers, and Watchers: 20+ Depictions from Legend, Literature, and Film from the 1600s to Today .

Michael Conklin, Texas A&M University School of Law, has published Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: An Adventure in Christmas Litigat...

I. Bennett Capers, Fordham University School of Law, has published Silencing as Blackening at 114 Georgetown Law Journal 813 (2026). Here i...

From Professor Paolo Farah, University of Tulsa School of Law: Upcoming Webinar: Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of ...

Audra Savage, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published Slavery and the Myth of Religious Liberty at 51 BYU Law Review 1363. Here...

Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions: A Guest Post. Published at ContractsProf Blog .

Edgar A. Fernandez-Lopez has published Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations...

Jonathan Crowe, University of Southern Queensland, School of Law and Justice, has published Pseudolaw, Folk Law and Natural Law: How to Tell...

Thomas Schultz, King's College London, University of Geneva, has published Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge...

Forthcoming from Thomas Giddens, Dundee Law School: Typographic Legality: The Source and Transmission of the Common Law (Edinburgh Universit...

From Daniel Solove's Solove on Tech:  A Century Ago, E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" Predicted How AI and Digital Tech...

News from Paolo Davide Farah, University of Tulsa College of Law:  The webinar Indigenous Legal Orders, Legal Pluralism, and the Coloniality...

Princeton University Press is having a fifty-percent-off sale through June 9th on most of its books.  Many titles of interest, but here are ...

Jason Mazzone, Univesity of Illinois College of Law, has published The Unitary Executive and the Decisions of 1789 and 1861 at 59 UC Davis ...

William Hyland, Vernis & Bowling Law Firm, has published "It Ends With A Lawsuit": Blake Lively V. Justin Baldoni A Mock Trial...

Daniel Solove has published "Selling Privacy: A Collection of Ads for Privacy" on his Solove on Tech substack. Read the essay here...

Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law School, has published Dangerous Oracles: Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, and AI Predictions...

Shathera Little, Protecting Black Creativity: Rap Lyrics as Misused Evidence and the Case for Intellectual Property Law Reform . Here is the...

Dennis J. Wieboldt, III, has published Ken Kersch and the New Legal History: Beyond the Internalist/Externalist Divide at 4 J. Am. Const. H...

Paul A. Gowder, Northwestern University School of Law, is publishing Never Send to Know on Whom the Boot Stomps; it Stomps on Thee in the A...