Showing posts with label Law and Humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Law and Humor. Show all posts
March 11, 2026

Call For Papers: Touro Law Review--Special Issue on Legal Humor

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  CALL FOR PAPERS   TOURO LAW REVIEW – SPECIAL ISSUE ON LEGAL HUMOR                 Are you funny? Were you the life of the party ...
March 3, 2026

Davies on A Wig Without a Home: The Comedic Wisdom of Sir Frederick Pollock

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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...
January 19, 2026

Call For Abstracts: Human Studies and Free Speech Adjudication: From Theory To Practice

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From Laura Little, Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law: The International Society for Humor Studies is soliciting abstracts ...
August 7, 2024

Zinigrad on Laughing Matters in Courts: Humor's Role in Normalizing Hate Speech @RomanZinigrad @AUP_CCDS

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Roman Zinigrad, American University of Paris, has published Laughing Matters in Courts: Humor’s Role in Normalizing Hate Speech in Alternat...
May 19, 2023

Brown on Laughing All the Way to the Bench: The Role of Humor in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings @ColumbiaLaw @columbiajla

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Joanna Brown, Columbia Law School, is publishing Laughing All the Way to the Bench: The Role of Humor in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings...
November 2, 2018

Laura Little, Guilty Pleasures: Comedy and Law in America (Oxford University Press, 2018) @templelaw @OxUniPress

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Forthcoming from Oxford University Press: Laura Little, Temple University School of Law, Guilty Pleasures: Comedy and Law in America (2018...
August 21, 2018

Judges, Judging [,] and Humour: A New Publication from Palgrave @Palgrave_

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New from Palgrave Macmillan: Judges, Judging and Humour (Jessica Milner Davis and Sharyn Roach Anleu, eds., 2018). Here is the descripti...
March 15, 2016

Oakley on Australian Judicial Humor

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Jack Oakley, Clifford Chance, is publishing Banter from the Bench: The Use of Humour in the Exercise of Judicial Functions in volume 41 of...
May 19, 2015

Defining "Funny", Protecting Speech

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More from Laura E. Little on law and humor: Bob Mankoff, Judging Humor , The New Yorker, March 20, 2013 (discussing Prof. Little's sc...
October 31, 2014

A New Blog and a New Book of Interest

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John Denvir, Research Professor of Law at University of San Francisco Law School, has launched a new blog, Guile Is Good , in conjunction w...
September 16, 2014

Judge Humorous, Are You Pulling My Leg?

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Mary B. Trevor, Hamline University School of Law, has published From Ostriches To Sci-Fi: A Social Science Analysis of the Impact of Humor ...
May 6, 2014

Law and Humor

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Laura E. Little, Temple University School of Law, has published Legal Restriction and Protection of Humor, in the Encylopedia of Humor (Sa...
November 12, 2013

Something To Laugh About

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Ozan O. Varol, Lewis & Clark Law School, is publishing Revolutionary Humor in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. H...
October 22, 2013

Where The Girls Aren't

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Ryan A. Malphurs, Courtroom Sciences Inc., Jaime Bochantin, DePaul University, L. Hailey Drescher, University of Kansas, and Melissa Walla...
May 9, 2013

The Law of Offense

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Ronald L. K. Collins, University of Washington School of Law, has published Comedy and Liberty: The Life and Legacy of Lenny Bruce at 79 S...
May 24, 2011

What's Satire Got To Do With It?

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Lauren Feldman, American University, Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University, and Edward W. Maibach, George Mason University Center for Climate...
April 25, 2011

The Reason For Reasoning

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Does Homo jurisconsultus represent an evolutionary milestone? Check out Mark D. White's semi-tongue in cheek post at Psychology Today ,...
November 30, 2010

Defamation and Humor

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Laura E. Little, Temple University School of Law, is publishing Just a Joke: Defamatory Humor and Incongruity's Promise , in volume 21 o...
October 29, 2009

Oh, That Arnold!

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From NPR, this story about a possible coded message from the Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to California State Assemblyman Tom A...
September 2, 2009

Lawyers, Lawyers, Everywhere

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Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Florida State University College of Law, has published "There's a Pennoyer in My Foyer: Civil Procedure A...