Law & Humanities Blog

Jessica M. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published "A History of Representations of Justice: Coincident Representations of...

Quiet Jane Austen seems to be of renewed interest these days. Linda Ross Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law, has published "Ja...

Professor Nancy Rapoport (University of Houston Law Center) has posted on SSRN her book chapter, Lord of the Flies (1963): The Development o...

Melissa Ganz, Department of English, Yale University, has published "Binding the Will: George Eliot and the Practice of Promising,...

Jessica M. Silbey (Suffolk Law School) has posted her article, Videotaped Confessions and the Genre of Documentary , 16 Fordham Intellectual...

Professor Andrew Majeske has sent out this Call for Papers for the Modern Language Association Meeting 2007 Law as Literature Discussion Gro...

John Law, who with two friends launched the "Burning Man" celebrations years ago is now suing them to place the "Burning Man...

For those considering attending the conference "Law and the Emotions: New Directions in Scholarship," at UC Berkeley in early Febr...

William Turner (Emory Law School) has posted his paper, Nietzsche, Foucault, Scalia , on SSRN. From the abstract: This paper explores the n...

Alex B. Long (Oklahoma City University School of Law) has posted [Insert Song Lyrics Here]: The Uses and Misuses of Popular Music Lyrics In ...

Susan Bandes (De Paul University Collegeo of Law) has posted We Lost It at the Movies: The Rule of Law Goes from Washington to Hollywood and...

A recent book edited by Jan-Melissa Schramm and Gillian Beer has been published entitled Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature...

Rebecca Lemon has published the book Treason by Words: Literature, Law, And Rebellion in Shakespeare's England (Cornell, 2006). From th...

Brian C. Lockey, an assistant professor of English at St. John's University, has published the book Law and Empire in English Renaissanc...

There's a new book called The Law in Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) edited by Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham. From the b...

Kieran Dolin, Senior Lecturer in English, Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, has published the book ...

Deak Nabers has published Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852--1867 (J. Hopkins, 2006) ....

Susan Bandes of DePaul University College of Law has published "We Lost It At the Movies: The Rule of Law Moves From Washington to Holl...

Fred Vargas (Frédérique Audouin-Rouzeau) writes what the French call romans policiers . It started as a hobby, but her hobby has turned into...

Jack Balkin (Yale Law school) and Sanford Levinson (Texas Law School) have posted Law and the Humanities: An Uneasy Relationship , 18 Yale J...

Professor I. Bennett Capers (Hofstra Law School) has posted The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass , 31 NYU Review of Law ...

Barry Hannah, a professor at the University of Mississippi, writes about the pleasures, and the importance, of crime noir, in the Oxford Ame...

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW & CULTURE FELLOWSHIP The Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University invites applicatio...

Leigh Buchanan Bienen, Northwestern University School of Law, has published "The Record Keepers" in volume 124 of TriQuarterly Jou...

Richard Weisberg , Cardozo Law School, has published "Wigmore, and the Law and Literature Movement," as Cardozo Legal Studies Res...

Christopher J. Buccafusco, University of Chicago Law School, discusses the question in "On the Legal Consequences of Sauces: Should Tho...

Prosecutors are attempting to show that rap lyrics constitute a confession in the trial of Ronell Wilson for the murder of officers James V...

Ian Gallacher, Syracuse University College of Law, has published "Conducting the Constitution: Justice Scalia, Textualism, and the Eroi...

John T. Parry, Lewis & Clark College Law School and Andrea L. Hibbard, Lewis & Clark College, have published "Law, Seduction, a...

Michael Asimow, UCLA Law School, and Richard Weisberg, Cardozo Law School, have published "When the Lawyer Knows the Client is Guilty:...

Michael Asimow, UCLA School of Law, has published "Popular Culture and the Adversarial System" in volume 2007 of the Loyola of Los...

I've updated my list of formal courses available in Law and the Humanities. It's available on my website here .

Jamie Bennett has published "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Media in Prison Films," at Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, V...

Denis J. Brion, Washington and Lee University, has published "Pluralism: Rashomon and Contested Conceptions of Criminality" as Was...

" Picturing Justice ", the web's US first online law and film journal, has ceased publication. Several of its webeditors have ...

Rob Atkinson, Jr., Florida State University School of Law, has published "What Is It Like to Be Like That?: The Progress of Law and Lit...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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