October 23, 2006

Chronological Bibliography of Law & Literature Scholarship

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With the help of Sam Weisberg, I have created a c hronological bibliography of law and literature scholarship from 1982-present. It is cer...

Does Reading Literature Give You More Empathy?

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The British Psychological Society reports the results of a new study on the effects of reading literature: The more fiction a person reads,...
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October 4, 2006

Even More Harry Potter

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Ruth Anne Robbins, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, has published "Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers, and Merlin: Telling the Client...

Call For Proposals: Storytelling Conference in London Next July

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A call for proposals for a conference entitled "Once Upon a Legal Time: developing the skills of storytelling in law" to be held a...
September 29, 2006

A Collection of Law and Popular Culture Essays

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The Law and Popular Culture "subdiscipline" is beginning to acquire a healthy number of volumes of essays containing proceedings o...
September 22, 2006

We'll Always Have Parrots, Too....

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My colleague Pat Martin notes that Jay Dardenne, a 1979 LSU Law graduate, won the "Vile Puns" category in the 2005 Bulwer Lytton F...
September 21, 2006

Crime and the Songs of Bruce Springsteen

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David Ray Papke, Marquette University Law School, has published "Crime, Lawbreaking and Counterhegemonic Humanism in the Songs of Bruce...
August 6, 2006

Chen on Poetic Justice in Brown v. Board of Education

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Jim Chen (law, Minnesota), has posted Poetic Justice , 29 Cardozo L. Rev. __(2007) on SSRN. From the abstract: "All deliberate speed,...
July 30, 2006

Papke on Portrayals of Judges in American Pop Culture

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David Ray Papke (law, Marquette) has posted on SSRN an article entitled, From Flat to Round: Changing Portrayals of the Judge in American Po...
June 15, 2006

Bibliography of Law & Literature Works About Specific Writers

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Need a list of works about Shakespeare and the law? Or about Kafka's The Trial ? Do you need to find legal scholarship ...

Google Shakespeare

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Google has launched Google Shakespeare , a searchable online collection of all of Shakespeare's plays. According to the site: Now Shake...
May 21, 2006

A List of Literature About Law

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Over at the Law & Humanities Institute website, I have compiled a list of literary works about the law . This is part of a larger proje...
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Law & Humanities Institute Resources Page

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Over at the Law & Humanities Institute website , we are compiling useful resources for law and humanities teaching and research. For e...
December 14, 2005

More Harry Potter and Law

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Benjamin Barton, University of Tennessee College of Law, has published "Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy" in volume 10...
December 1, 2005

Criminal Law and "The Beggar's Opera"

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Ian Gallagher of Syracuse University's College of Law is publishing "Let Us Take the Road": The Beggar's Opera and Its Cri...
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...