Law & Humanities Blog

Last Friday's issue of The Independent has a wonderful article about the charms of Inspector Morse, that unique character created by C...

Susan Hanley Kosse, University of Louisville School of Law, has published "Race, Riches, and Reporters: Do Race and Class Impact Media ...

N. Jeremi Duru, Temple University School of Law, has published "Friday Night "Lite": How Deracialization in the Motion Pictur...

From the NewsHour : Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy presided over a "trial" of Hamlet in a Kennedy Center production taking ...

Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, will publish "Criminal Performances: Film, Autobiography, and Confession," in the N...

My former colleague Christopher Blakesley, now of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Law School, ruminates on the intersection among law, l...

Paul J. Heald has published "Meeting of the Minds, Episode II: A Dark and Angry God Arises," as UGA Legal Studies Research Paper 0...

Today's Washington Post contains two articles taking different sides to the question of whether Shakespeare is the true author of his wo...

Forthcoming in May is Susan Chaplin's The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820 from Palgrave Macmillan. It will include discussions of ...

Amnon Reichman has published "Law, Literature, and Empathy: Between Withholding and Reserving Judgment." The citation is 56 Journa...

The new issue of International Commentary on Evidence includes three articles dealing with Julian Barnes' new book Arthur and George. Se...

Zvi S. Rosen, U. S. Court System, has published, "The Twilight of the Opera Pirates: A Prehistory of the Right of Public Performance fo...

Rosanna Cavallaro, Suffolk University Law School, has published "Chester Himes' Cotton Comes to Harlem: A Reparations Parable"...

Kristen A. Carpenter, University of Denver College of Law, has published "Contextualizing the Losses of Allotment Through Literature,...

Bezalel Stern, Columbia University Law School, has published "Huck Finn and the Civil Rights Cases: A Case Study in Supreme Court Influ...

Bernadette Meyler, Cornell Law School, has published "Transparency and Textuality: Wilkie Collins' Law Books," in IN THE SECRE...

From an announcement by the SSRN The Social Science Research Network is pleased to announce two new SSRN abstracting journals, Law & Lit...

Adam Thurschwell (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) has posted on SSRN his paper, Writing and Terror: Don DeLillo on the Task of Literature...

Antonin I. Pribetic, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published "'To Boldly Go Where No One Has (Arbitrated) Before': The Star Trek...

Professor I. Bennett Capers has posted on SSRN an article, On Jusitita, Race, Gender, and Blindness , 12 Michigan J. of Race & Law 203 (...

Professor I. Bennett Capers (Hofstra Law School) has posted on SSRN the article, Reading Back, Reading Black , 35 Hofstra L. Rev. 101 (2007...

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...