Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts
August 5, 2025

Upcoming Conference: Melville's Legacy For Law and the Humanities, University of Cincinnati Law School, October 24-25, 2025

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Upcoming Conference at the University of Cincinnati Law School, October 24-25, 2025 Melville's Legacy for Law and the Humanities Co-spon...
January 12, 2022

Yosifon on Moby-Dick as Corporate Catastrophe: Law, Ethics, and Redemption @DavidYosifon

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David G. Yosifon, Santa Clara School of Law, is publishing Moby-Dick as Corporate Catastrophe: Law, Ethics, and Redemption in volume 90 of...
August 26, 2019

ICYMI: Some Recent Law and Humanities Publications From Robert E. Atkinson, Jr. @FSUCollegeofLaw

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ICYMI: Robert E. Atkinson, Jr., Florida State University College of Law, has published and is publishing: Growing Up With Scott and Att...
November 12, 2018

McAdams and Corre on New Light on the Trial of Billy Budd

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Richard H. McAdams, University of Chicago Law School, and Jacob Corre have published New Light on the Trial of Billy Budd as University of...
September 20, 2017

West In Praise of Richard Weisberg's Intransigence @GeorgetownLaw @CardozoLaw

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Robin L. West, Georgetown University Law Center, has published In Praise of Richard Weisberg's Intransigence at 29 Law & Literatur...
January 18, 2017

Law and Literature in Herman Meville and Heinrich von Kleist @newcriterion

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ICYMI: Martin Greenberg, The Difficult Justice of Melville & Kleist , The New Criterion, March 2005.
July 26, 2016

Morss on Gender and Culture in International Legal Theory.

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John R. Morss, Deakin University Law School, has published ‘Call Me Ahab’: On Gender and Culture in International Legal Theory. Here is th...
October 22, 2015

Bartleby, the Annotated

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Andrew Kahn annotates (with hypertext links) Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener for Slate.
April 20, 2015

Hoaxes and Frauds and Swindles, Oh, My

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Some really entertaining law-related articles in the current issue (titled "Swindle and Fraud") of Lapham's Quarterly (Spring...
December 16, 2013

Deconstructing "Benito Cereno"

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From the Chronicle of Higher Education: Greg Grandin on the historical background of Melville's Benito Cereno.  Dr. Grandin is the auth...
October 20, 2011

The Writer and the Law

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John James Berry, Barry University School of Law, has published The Law, The Writer and The Work: How an Author's Interaction with the ...
September 30, 2011

Philosopher Kings and Melville's Captain Vere

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Rob Atkinson Jr., Florida State University College of Law, has published Averting the Captain Vere 'Veer': Billy Budd as Melville...
April 22, 2011

The Resistance To Disorder In "Billy Budd"

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Lawrence Michael Friedman, New England School of Law, has published Law, Force, and Resistance to Disorder in Herman Melville's Billy Bu...
June 4, 2008

Another Interpretation of Captain Vere

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Rob Atkinson, Jr., Florida State University College of Law, has published "Averting the Captain Vere 'Veer': Billy Budd as Melv...
January 11, 2007

Nables on Law, Literature, and the Civil War

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Deak Nabers has published Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852--1867 (J. Hopkins, 2006) ....
October 3, 2005

Anomaly in Delbanco's Account of the "Billy Budd" Debate

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Dan Solove lists Andrew Delbanco's fine new book called Melville: His World and Work. One of the book's merits is its even-handed t...
September 25, 2005

New Biography of Herman Melville

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Andrew Delbanco, Melville: His World and Work A review by Michael Dirda in the Washington Post says: In the end, perhaps the most import...
August 12, 2005

Melville's Billy Budd and Security in Times of Crisis

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My essay, Melville’s Billy Budd and Security in Times of Crisis , 26 Cardozo L. Rev. 2443 (2005), written for a law and literature symposium...

Billy Budd Resource

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For those interested in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, there's a terrific online resource to the text. It provides a complete text ...