Law & Humanities Blog

Christine Corcos, LSU Law Center, has published "Power of Attorney." Here is the abstract. No doubt exists that the drama/farce Al...

UCLA School of Law, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and Georgetown University ...

Penelope Pether, Villanova University School of Law, has published "Regarding the Miller Girls: Daisy, Judith, and the Seeming Paradox ...

David Papke, Marquette University School of Law, has published "The Impact of Popular Culture on American Perceptions of the Courts,...

Mark Walters, Queen's University Faculty of Law, has published "Hercules as Legal Humanist: Historicizing Dworkin's Jurispruden...

Federico Varese, Oxford University School of Law, has published "The Secret History of Japanese Cinema: The Yakuza Movies," as Oxf...

Richard K. Sherwin, Director of the Visual Persuasion Project, and Professor of Law, New York Law School, has published "Popular Cultur...

News from Professor Matthew Fletcher of Michigan State University College of Law: The Michigan State University College of Law will host its...

Marc Roark, University of Tulsa, has published "Loneliness and the Law: Solitude, Action and Power in the Living Speech of James Boyd W...

William A. Hilyerd, University of Louisville School of Law, has published "Hi Superman, I'm a Lawyer: A Guide to Attorneys (& O...

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 11 - 14, 2008 Waikiki Beac...

LEXIS/NEXIS has published a new casebook on Law and Popular Culture. The contributors are David Papke (editor), Marquette, Melissa Cole Essi...

Ed Morgan, University of Toronto Law School, has published The Aesthetics of International Law(University of Toronto Press). Here's a de...

Robert P. Burns, Northwestern University School of Law, has published "Twelve Angry Men: A Jury Between Fact and Norm," in the Chi...

Judith Fischer, University of Louisiville School of Law, has published "Why George Orwell's Ideas About Language Still Matter For L...

National Public Radio's Bob Mondello did a feature piece June 12th devoted to the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as well as seve...

I've started a new blog devoted to law and magic. Here's the link.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE LAW A CONFERENCE - A CELEBRATION University of Warwick, UK ...

Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder, both University of California, Davis, School of Law, have published "Everyone's a Superhero: A C...

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 ...