Law & Humanities Blog

Laura E. Little, Temple University School of Law, has published "Regulating Funny: Humor and the Law," to appear in volume 94 of t...

I am very happy to announce the publication of my new book, UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY (Harvard University Press, May 2008). There has been a lo...

New on SSRN: Carla Spivack, The Woman Will be Out: A New Look at the Law in Shakespeare's Hamlet , forthcoming from Yale Journal of Law ...

Joseph W. Dellapenna, Villanova University School of Law, has published "Peasants, Tanners, and Psychiatrists: Using Films To Teach Com...

Today's New York Times has this feature article on Anthony Davis's opera Amistad . For more about interpretations about the Amistad,...

The Hollywood Reporter notes that CBS has cancelled a number of shows, including the lawyer drama Shark , which stars James Woods. Read mor...

Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published "The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science,...

Karin Trustedt, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), has published "The Tragedy of Law in Shakespeare," in Law & Hu...

I came across this essay by Joel Warren Lidz on logic and argument in the film "Twelve Angry Men." It originally appeared in the j...

Mildred Loving, one of the parties in the landmark case Loving v. Virginia, has passed away. NPR has this audio story . Timothy Hutton and L...

In a recent " Boston Legal " episode, Alan Shore (James Spader) excoriates the "Supreme Court" (played by lookalikes) fo...

Law & Politics Book Review has recently published an issue with short book reviews of many great works of literature with legal and poli...

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...