Law & Humanities Blog

Joseph Slaughter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, has published Human Rights Inc.: The Wor...

We missed this interesting piece when it first appeared, but we're trying to make amends now. Stacey A. Tovino, Hamline University Schoo...

Tony Mauro of Legal Times writes of a new museum which may soon be opening in Washington, D.C., devoted to "Crime and Punishment"....

Over at Concurring Opinions, Dave Hoffman, Deven Desai, and I interview Ron Moore and David Eick , creators, producers, and writers of the h...

Kelly Lynn Anders, Washburn University School of Law, has published "Reviewing Silkwood at Twenty-Five: The Reel Impact on Environmenta...

Bernadette A. Meyler, Cornell University School of Law, has published "Daniel Defoe and the Written Constitution." Here is the abs...

Randall P. Bezanson, University of Iowa College of Law, has published "Performing Art,", in a modified version in the forthcoming ...

NBC will begin offering full episodes of favorite old dramas, including Kojak, Miami Vice, and the Alfred Hitchcock Hour (on NBC.com), the o...

NPR's Andrea Shea seeks to deconstruct Star Wars's Darth Vader and discovers there's a touchy-feeley side to everybody's fav...

Announcement of an Upcoming Conference Emotion in Context Exploring the Interaction between Emotions and Legal Institutions May 9-10, 2008...

Here is a very selected list of recently published law review articles on law and the humanties. Cavallaro, Rosanna, Chester Himes’s Cotton...

Debra Cassens Weiss notes that Justice Alito doesn't like those Italian stereotypes revived through The Sopranos , at least, so the Tre...

Caspar van Woensel, University of Leiden, Faculty of Law, and member of the Restitutiecommissie (Dutch Spoliation Advisory Panel), has publi...

Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published "What Screen Do You Have In Mind? Contesting the Visual Context of Law and Film ...

In today's New York Times, Charles McGrath has a piece about writer Joan Brady, the effects of glue-sniffing on her literary career, and...

The late Peter B. Junger, long a professor at Case Western Reserve Law School, offered this unusual interpretation of the Second Amendment. ...

The New York Times's Gina Bellafonte reviews the new ABC lawyer drama Eli Stone here . I'll be posting my own review after I catch t...

The Times Literary Supplement has a review of two new works about Arthur Conan Doyle. Dinah Birch comments on both Andrew Lycett's biogr...

Over at Balkinization, Professor Brian Tamanaha (St. John's School of Law) argues that most law schools should abandon their vigorous p...

Harold Schechter, The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century Ballantine Books (Octobe...

Judith Resnick, Yale University Law School, has published "Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century C...

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

Margaret Raymond reviews Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf, Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland, published by Algonquin B...

The current issue of the Journal of Legal Education includes two articles of interest: Amnon Reichman, "Law, Literature, and Empathy: B...

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences May 29 - June 1, 2008 Waikiki Beach Marr...

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...