October 28, 2005

Harry Potter Goes to Law School

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Harry Potter has inspired articles by two Thomas Jefferson School of Law professors. Julie D. Cromer's "Harry Potter and the Three-...
October 18, 2005

Jane Baron on Property

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Jane Baron (law, Temple) has posted on SSRN her article entitled Property and 'No Property,' 42 Hous. L. Rev. (forthcoming Jan. 200...
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...
October 1, 2005

Sarat et al. on Law and the Screen

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LAW ON THE SCREEN (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey eds. 2005) From the Book Description: The proliferation of ima...
September 30, 2005

Alfred Brophy on the Power of Antebellum Literary Addresses

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Alfred L. Brophy, University of Alabama School of Law, has published "The Law of Descent of the Mind: Law, History, and Civilization in...
September 25, 2005

New Biography of Mark Twain

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Ron Powers, Mark Twain : A Life From Publisher's Weekly: Starred Review. After dozens of biographies of Twain (1835–1910), one can fairl...

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...
September 23, 2005

Jane Baron on Law's Guilt about Literature

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Jane Baron (law, Temple) has posed an abstract on SSRN about her new piece, Law's Guilt about Literature , in the forthcoming book, Towa...
September 1, 2005

Two recent assessments of Law and Literature

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Within the past few months, from both sides of the table, important commentaries on the Law and Literature Movement (or "Enterprise...
August 16, 2005

Franz Kafka & Law Bibliography

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There's a good bibliography of writings about Franz Kafka and the law by Christine Corcos , although it was last updated in 1995.
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...

Josef K. -- Justice Denied. Again.

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This is something I posted about a month ago on PrawfsBlawg, but it's relevant to this blog too, so I'll cross-post: Judge Alex K...

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 ...

Law & Literature Syllabus

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I've been teaching a seminar in law and literature for many years, and I thought I'd provide a link to my syllabus if it will be of...

The Beginning

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This blog will cover law and humanities topics. It is still in the early stages. It will be a group blog, with a variety of contributors fr...