Truth, Justice, and the American Way of Taxes @Leandra2848 @smbrnsn

 Via Sam Brunson at Loyola Chicago Law, this piece by Leandra Lederman, Indiana University School of Law, about Superman and his tax problems.  Published at The Surly Subgroup.

Superheroes and Immigration @nancywyuen @INHERITANCEmag

Giovanny Panginda and Gene Luen Yang explore the ethnic origins of comic book superheroes for inheritancemag.com. Such characters come to the U.S., or countries, fleeing natural disasters or war, and they come without papers. The authors note in part,

Not only is Superman an immigrant, more specifically, he is a refugee, one forced to leave his country because of war, persecution, or natural disasters. Superman's cultural narrative starts with him as a baby on the planet Krypton, where his parents send him to Earth not just to escape the planet's destruction, but to offer him a chance at a better life.

Although we usually think of Superman as the great icon of "truth, justice, and the American Way," we often forget that he started out as a foreigner, and a literal unaccompanied minor alien. 


Via @nancywyuen.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Client!

James Daily and Ryan Davidson have turned their blog, Law and the Multiverse, into a book, The Law of Superheroes (Gotham Books, a division of Penguin, forthcoming). More here from The National Law Journal.

Keeping Streets Safe, One Superhero At a Time

By day they are ordinary citizens. By night they take their inspiration from comic book superheroes and fight crime where they see it on public streets, in subways, in restaurants--wherever they think they're needed. Of course, sometimes their crime-fighting efforts go awry, and duly appointed representatives of the law fight back, as in the case of Seattle-based Phoenix Jones. While Mr. Jones (born Ben Fodor) was never charged for mistakenly intervening in what he thought was a fight but what the people involved said was dancing, he is still awaiting the return of his superhero equipment, which the Seattle PD seized back in October. Such are the challenges of the cape.

Law and the Multiverse Scores With New York Times

The blog Law and the Multiverse is featured in the New York Times.

Law and the Superwhatever

Check out the new blog Law and the Multiverse, all about supervillains, superheroes and law. Shades of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.

You Don't Tread On Superman's Cape

From EvidenceProfBlog: Colin Miller writes cleverly and authoritatively about claims brought against Superman by a victim he rescues in an episode of the show Lois and Clark. So what does this tell us about Good Samaritan laws?