Showing posts with label Law and Science Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Law and Science Fiction. Show all posts
July 25, 2025

Hrdy and Brean on Testing the Gernsback Hypothesis: Science Fiction's Influence on Patents and Innovation

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Camilla Alexandra Hrdy, Rutgers Law School; Yale University Information Society Project, and Daniel Harris Brean, Senior In-House Intellectu...
June 30, 2025

McCaffrey and Dorobat on First Principles on the Final Frontier: Economic Foundations of Science Fiction

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Matthew McCaffrey, University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, and Carmen-Elena Dorobat, Manchester Business School, Strategy Ente...
October 26, 2023

ICYMI: Contreras on Science Fiction and the Law: A New Wigmorian Bibliography @contreraslegals @sjquinney

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ICYMI: Jorge L. Contreras, University of Utah College of Law, has published Science Fiction and the Law: A New Wigmorian Bibliography at 13 ...
January 22, 2023

Hrdy and Brean on The Patent Law Origins of Science Fiction @CamillaHrdy @AkronLaw

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Camilla Alexandra Hrdy, University of Akron School of Law; Yale University Information Society Project, and Daniel Harris Brean, Independent...
November 5, 2021

Christopher Brown on The Borders of Utopia: Science Fiction and the Limits of the Legal Imagination, University of Montreal School of Law, November 11, 2021 https://www.cyberjustice.ca/2021/10/25/the-boarders-of-utopia-science-fiction-and-the-limits-of-the-legal-imagination https://www.cyberjustice.ca/2021/10/25/the-boarders-of-utopia-science-fiction-and-the-limits-of-the-legal-imagination @NB_Chris @CyberjusticeLab @droitumontreal

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 On November 11, 2021, Christopher Brown, Philip K. Dick, John W. Campbell, and World Fantasy Ward-nominated author of Tropic of Kansas, Rul...
June 1, 2021

Marinotti and Lubin on The Law of the Upload @JoaoMarinotti @AsafLubin

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João Marinotti, Center for Law, Society and Culture, Indiana University Maurer School of Law; Information Society Project, Yale Law School;...
February 9, 2021

Hrdy and Brean on Enabling Science Fiction @CamillaHrdy @AkronLaw @yaleisp

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Camilla Alexandra Hrdy, University of Akron School of Law; Yale University Information Society Project; and Daniel Harris Brean are publishi...
April 1, 2019

Governing Mars: Real Ideas and Fictional Schemes @megogieblyn

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Meghan O'Gieblyn discusses how we are currently debating the potential governing of Mars, now that colonizing that planet is a real pos...
February 1, 2019

Michaels on Abstract Innovation, Virtual Ideas, and Artificial Legal Thought @UHLAW

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Andrew C. Michaels, University of Houston Law Center, is publishing Abstract Innovation, Virtual Ideas, and Artificial Legal Thought in vo...
December 17, 2018

Rise of the Automatons, A Savannah Law Review Symposium Issue, Now Available @SavLawRev @WendellWallach @brianlfrye @cybersimplesec @CGIntelligence

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Rise of the Automatons, symposium issue of the Savannah Law Review,  is available on the Law Review's website.  Among the articles to p...
October 1, 2018

Kieran Tranter, Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technology (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)

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New from Kieran Tranter, Griffith University Law School: Kieran Tranter, Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technol...
August 26, 2018

van Geffen on Gender and Racial Identity in the Star Trek Universe @hannaaahhxx @UniLeiden

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Hannah van Geffen has published Gender and Racial Identity in Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Discovery (Master...
February 16, 2018

Tranter on Envisioning and Programming Digital Legality From SyFy's Caprica @GriffLawSchool

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Kieran Mark Tranter, Griffith Law School, is publishing I, Archive: Envisioning and Programming Digital Legality from SyFy's Caprica i...
January 24, 2018

Frankenstein: A Multidisciplinary Conference, June 14, 2018 @NorthumbriaUni

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Frankenstein: A Multidisciplinary Conference 2018 Thursday 14 June 2018 Northumbria University Law School and Department of ...
January 12, 2018

In Science Magazine's January 20, 2018 Issue: The Legacy of "Frankenstein" @sciencemagazine

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Science Magazine devotes its January 2018 issue to Frankenstein. Included are several articles on the novel and its legacy: Jon Cohen, Ho...
June 28, 2017

A Special Issue on Law and Popular Culture From the Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies @OxfordCSLS

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Now published: Special issue of the Journal of Oxford Center for Socio-Legal Studies: Law and Popular Culture (Issue 3, 2017). This iss...
June 20, 2017

Miller on The Law of Time Travel @nyulaw @HUJILaw

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Akiva A. Miller, New York University School of Law; Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, has published The Law of Time Travel. H...
May 29, 2017

Friend or Foe? How SF Portrays Alien Visitors @LaphamsQuart

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From Lapham's Quarterly, a survey of sf literature, film, and television measuring alien attitudes toward humans. 
May 4, 2017

And For Those of You Who Thought Star Wars Had No More Legal Issues to Consider

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Here are some practical questions and answers to mull over during exam-writing/grading time, courtesy of  Ryan Nanni and Spencer Hall's...
February 7, 2017

Corcos on How Some SF Presents AI's Claim to the Right to Life and Self-Determination @lpcprof

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Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, is publishing More Human Than Human: How Some SF Presents AI's Claims to th...