Law & Humanities Blog

The Globe and Mail's Carl Wilson discusses Henning Mankell's new crime novel Kennedy's Brain, and his commitment to social caus...

The new Organization for Transformative Works intends to protect "the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the histo...

Over at Concurring Opinions, where I blog a lot, my co-blogger Dave Hoffman has an interesting interview with fantasy fiction writer Pat Rot...

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor F. Miguel Valenti, on the faculty at Arizona State University, believes 1) that st...

Here's a roundup of some titles published in law and literature in the past year. This list is by no means comprehensive. Cantarella, Ev...

Walter J. Kendall, John Marshall Law School, has published "Law and Norms in Left-Wing Novels of the U. S. Mid-Twentieth Century."...

Call for papers for panels on law and literature in the Midwest at “Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars, Creative Writers, and Film...

Randolph Jonakait, New York Law School, has published "Law in the Plays of Elmer Rice," at 19 Law and Literature 401 (2007). Here ...

Penelope Pether, Villanova University School of Law, has published "The Prose and the Passion," as 66(3) On Crime and the Law of ...

The BBC offers the productions (I use the word loosely) of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, a group that distills the Bard's plays to th...

Elyse Pepper, St. John's University School of Law, has published "The Case for "Thinking Like a Filmmaker": Using Lars vo...

Legal Times notes that this year's Shakespeare Theatre Company's mock trial presented the spectacle of Theodore Olsen, former solic...

Erik Jensen, Case Western Reserve Law School, has published "Law School Attire: A Call for a Uniform Uniform Code." It is forthcom...

Gary Pulsinelli, University of Tennessee College of Law, has published "Harry Potter and the (Re)Order of the Artists: Are We Muggles O...

Today's NPR Morning Edition has a story about Mark Pettit , the singing Contracts Professor of Boston University Law School. According t...

Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow, has published "Arthur and Oscar (and Sherlock): The Reconstructive Trial and the 'Hermeneuti...

Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published "'Super Size Me' and the Conundrum of Race/Ethnicity, Gende...

Marquette University Law School is hosting a Conference on Law and Popular Culture November 1st to celebrate the publication of Law and Popu...

CFP: Literature and Law: A Celebration April 11, 2008 (Friday) John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) (59th Street and 10th Avenue—near...

John DeStefano III has published "On Literature as Legal Authority," at 49 Arizona Law Review 521 (2007). Here is the abstract. Th...

Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics, Law Department, has published "From Moll Flanders to Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Women, Au...

Ernesto Hernandez Lopez, Chapman School of Law, has published "Law and Popular Culture: Inter-American Explorations into Columbian Slan...

Adi Parush, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has published "The Courtroom as Theater and the Theater as Courtroom in Ancient Athens....

Jacob Loshin has published "Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property Without Law." This paper in revised form...

Jessie Allen, New York University School of Law, has published "A Theory of Adjudication: Law as Magic." This paper in revised for...

Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law, has published "What Linguistics Can Do for Trademark Law," in INTERDISCIPLINARY ...

Matthew L.M. Fletcher (Michigan St. Univ. College of Law) has posted his new paper, Red Leaves and the Dirty Ground: The Cannibalism of Law ...

David Ray Papke, Marquette University Law School, has published "12 Angry Men Is Not an Archetype," in the Marquette University La...

I'm very excited to announce that my new book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy , is now hot off the presses! Copie...

HogswartsProfessor.com is a blog devoted to Harry Potter. Check it out here .

Robin Lister, University of Bradford, presents a case for teaching Law and Literature in the undergraduate curriculum, in "Law and Lite...

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...