Law & Humanities Blog

Here's the website for the new journal Law and the Humanities. The journal is peer-reviewed, appears twice a year and costs 90 pounds p...

Bradin Cormack has published "Strange Love, Or, Holding Lands," in volume 1 of Law & Humanities (2007). Here is the abstract. ...

Suzanne Ost, University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire Law School, has published "`But Is This Law?' The Nature of Law, Sovereig...

Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow Faculty of Law and Financial Studies, has published "`With All the Impressiveness and Substantial...

Mark Fenster, University of Florida School of Law, has published "The Folklore of Legal Biography," at 105 Michigan Law Review 126...

Here's news from the conveners of the 2008 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Writing Competition, Katherine Franke, ...

Bruce L. Hay, Harvard Law School, has published "Charades: Religious Allegory in 12 Angry Men," in volume 82 of the Chicago-Kent L...

Andrew Zurcher, Queen's College, Cambridge, has published "Consideration, Contract, and the End of the Comedy of Errors, in volume...

Mark Fortier, University of Guelph, has published "Shakespeare and Specific Performance," in volume 1 of Law & Humanities. Her...

Richard Weisberg, Cardozo Law School, has published "The Concept and Performance of "The Code" in The Merchant of Venice...

Professor Todd Henderson (U. Chicago Law School) has posted an interesting article on SSRN, Citing Fiction , 11 Green Bag 2d 171 (2008). ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died forty years ago today, a sad, sad anniversary. The presence of minority characters on screen is finally in...

New blog that you might have missed: International Law and Films , part of the International Institute for Law and Justice of the New York U...

Jacob Kaufman discusses property law in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings in a post here on the blog Law is Cool. See also these fol...

Patrick Lee, a freshman at Yale, writes for CNNU about Potter-themed courses at universities and colleges around the United States here .

Filmmaker Jules Dassin has died at the age of 96. Mr. Dassin was born in the US, where he began his career in the Yiddish theater. He made o...

Jeanne L. Schroeder, Cardozo School of Law, reviews William MacNeil's new book Lex Populi in a Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper. Her...

Andrea Dennis, University of Kentucky College of Law, has published "Poetic (In)Justice? Rap Music as Art, Life and Criminal Evidence...

Richard Weisberg, Cardozo Law School, has published "Law and Literature as Survivor," as Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No....

Paula L. Abrams, Lewis & Clark Law School, has published "We the People and Other Constitutional Tales: Teaching Constitutional Mea...

Nancy Levit and Allen K. Rostron, University of Missouri School of Law, have published "Calling for Stories," at 75 UMKC Law Revie...

John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) is holding a one day conference entitled "Literature and Law" on Friday, April 11, 20...

Alexander McCall Smith's novels are headed for the small screen . The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency will star Jill Scott as Precious Ram...

The Guardian considers how journalists today present murderers, and may, with hindsight, tend to exaggerate the circumstances of their every...

Nehst Studios is backing a new take on a television version of "The Saint", the character created by Leslie Charteris (Leslie Cha...

The AP notes that that copy of Magna Carta previously owned by Ross Perot, and auctioned for more than $21 million last year, is back on dis...

From Andrew Majeske comes this announcement: JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE'S LITERATURE AND LAW CONFERENCE, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 200...

Stephen Gillers, New York University School of Law, has published "A Tendency To Deprave and Corrupt: The Transformation of American Ob...

Peter Tatchell of The Guardian reviews the BBC1 series The Last Enemy , finding it a cautionary tale. Like millions of other viewers, I w...

A Review by Michael Asimow, Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law In the ABC television series that bears his name, Eli Stone is ...

Several entertainment critics have already reviewed Eli Stone , ABC's new legal drama, and find it either "quirky" and origin...

Jacqueline Lai Chung, William and Mary School of Law, has published "Drawing Idea From Expression: Creating a Legal Space For Culturall...

William Hyland has published "A Civil Action: Sally Hemings v. Thomas Jefferson," in volume 31 of the American Journal of Trial Ad...

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...