Legal Legacy: A Blog of Events @LawLegalHistory

The blog Legal Legacy features posts on historical events and reviews of history and legal history books. Its contributors are a lawyer/MBA and a librarian/political scientist, who provide an index of posts (with "see" references--now, that's organization). The historical events featured are of both a political and social nature (the anniversary of the date George and Martha Washington married, the anniversary of the death of Rosa Parks), and the books reviewed cover the world ("The Girls of Atomic City," "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman"). Something for everyone.

Some Additional Blogs For Mystery and Crime Fiction Readers

Some additional blogs devoted to mystery and crime fiction:

Crime By the Book. Reviews of crime fiction around the world.

Crime Pieces

Crime Thriller Girl

Eurocrime

Hey, There's a Dead Guy in the Living Room

Mystery Fanfare

The Rap Sheet

Raven Crime Reads

Sons of Spade

An extensive listing of blogs here in a 2010 post from Mystery Fanfare.

A New Blog on Law and Language @LloydEsq

ICYMI: a new-ish blog from Harold Anthony Lloyd, Professor of Law at Wake Forest School of Law. It's called Law & Language; Professor Lloyd publishes on philosophy, poetry (including his own work), legal education, rhetoric, politics, and other things that interest him. Check out his blog here.

A New Blog Devoted To Legal History Makes Its Debut

Three legal historians have launched a new blog devoted to, appropriately enough, legal history: Legal History Miscellany.  Sara M. Butler is the King George III Professor of British History at The Ohio State University.  Krista Kesselring is Professor of British History at Dalhousie University.  Katherine D. Watson is Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. More about them here.



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No Gaveling Allowed

The blog Inappropriate Gavels is on a mission. Its aim? To call out, appropriately enough, the mistaken uses of images, references, or mentions of gavels "in the media to depict the law in the UK."  Tagline:  "Gavels are small wooden hammers. English judges have never used them. But some people are wrong about that."  Great posts, done with humo(u)r.  More here from Full Fact, here from Marcel Berlins, for the Guardian.

These folks should get a Gavel Award.

Carry on.

A Crime Novelist's Interesting Blog

ICYMI: Martin Edwards' blog "Do You Write Under Your Own Name?" is a brisk and wonderful collection of little essays on crime novels (many of them now forgotten), new publications, new movies, and other things he finds interesting from the world of crime and popular culture. Worth reading. Mr. Edwards is an author of crime fiction himself as well as an anthologist. More here at his website.

A New Blog Devoted To the History of Women Lawyers

Bari Burke, University of Montana School of Law, has launched a new blog, Montana's Early Women Lawyers: Trail-Blazing, Big Sky Sisters-In-Law.  Each post focuses on an interesting (and unknown) story about a female lawyer from the past, which Professor Burke has unearthed from cases, newspapers, and other publications. Fascinating to see the number of mentions (and the depressing sameness of observations about women attorneys).  From the August 12th, 2015 post, this excerpt from a letter published August 12, 1907:

‘Possibly men are afraid to pay court to a woman lawyer, from the knowledge that she has too many brains for him, and can see further into his subterfuges and little evasions than most women could. It may be that the legal atmosphere is chilling to affection. It may be that women lawyers are too smart to tie themselves down. I do not know. I only cite the facts.
One of the happiest households that I know, is composed of two lawyers, one the husband, and the other the wife. But he was a lawyer and she was not when they got married. She studied under him, and is his legal assistant rather than his partner. Perhaps that is why they get along so happily together.'”

Oh, dear.
[Cross-posted to Feminist Law Professors]

An Interesting Blog About Mystery and Crime Fiction

Check out Tipping My Fedora, an interesting blog devoted to "mystery, crime and suspense in all media" and run by someone named Sergio. 

Deliberately mysterious?

Tip of the beret to Doug Coulson.

A Blog On Law and Film

Check out this interesting blog (in French)--Le Blog Droit et Cinema.

A Blog To Check Out

Mark Weiner of Rutgers Law School (Newark) sent me a link to a thread on his fascinating blog, Worlds of Law. The thread discusses connections between writer E.B. White and international law, and ranges from Webster's Dictionary, to Charlotte the spider, to Stuart Little. Professor Weiner discusses even more of interest to law and humanities folks at Worlds of Law. There's consideration of a Deanna Durbin film here  (she just passed on, by the way), and what we can make of the admiration a judge in the movie has for her, and a look at Bedouin law via a video Prof. Weiner made. It's a blog that provides provocative and light-hearted posts. Recommended.

If You Need...

To take a break from grading, check out Anatasia Salter's post "Researching In Public On Tumblr." Professor Salter suggests a number of Tumblr sites for time-wasting refreshing thought while you rejuvenate your overloaded brain and shake out the snowflakes. My favorite: Academic Tim Gunn. Make it work.

A New Law and Culture (and Other) Blog

Pierre Schlag and Sarah Krakoff of the University of Colorado School of Law have started the blog brazenandtenured--law politics nature and culture. Among the posts: The Monty Python Example No. 1 and Kandinsky or Hart? Aesthetics No. 1.  This blog, as Hercule Poirot would say about other matters, gives me furiously to think.

A Law and Science Fiction Blog

Those interested in law and science fiction might want to check out Omphalos' SF Book Reviews, which reviews and comments on sf and books and pop culture that discuss sf. The emphasis is on legal issues.

A New Blog From Osgoode Law School

Kate Sutherland of Osgoode Law School has launched a new blog, law.arts.culture. Below, the welcome post.

Welcome to law.arts.culture, a blog devoted to exploration of the intersection of law and the arts. I’m blogging solo for the moment which is apt to tilt the blog in a literary direction given that much of my research and teaching is in the field of law and literature, and that I’m a fiction writer besides. But I’m in the process of recruiting a team of bloggers—Osgoode colleagues, students, and alumni—whose diversity of interests and expertise will soon broaden the focus to include music, film, theatre, visual art, and more. Please visit often, and join in the conversation!

Professor Sutherland has another life, as Kate Sutherland, author of  Summer Reading, which won the 1995 Saskatchewan Book Award for Best First Book, and of Kate's Book Blog, at which she blogs about numerous things, including the intersection of law and literature.

Iurisdictio-lex Malacitana: An Interesting Law and Humanities Blog

José Calvo González, Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Malaga, writes the blog Iurisdictio-lex Malacitana in French, Spanish, and English (there might be a few more languages in there) on the intersections of law, the arts, philosophy, and narrative. Professor Calvo's most recent work is a book on Tolstoy and the law.

According to the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law, the Lex Malacitana, together with the Lex Salpensana, was found on bronze tablets in Spain, near Malaga. The Lex Malacitana contains information about "municipal assemblies, candidates in elections and voting, the adminsitration of municipal funds, tax-farming, fines, and the like." See Adolf Berger, Encyclopedia Dictionary of Roman Law, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 43, part 2, n.s. (1953) at 559.

Online Education Humanities Database

Nice mention of the Law and Humanities blog at the Online Education Humanities Database.

A Blog Devoted to Harry Potter

HogswartsProfessor.com is a blog devoted to Harry Potter. Check it out here.