Law & Humanities Blog

Alex B. Long, University of Tennessee College of Law, has published "[Insert Song Lyrics Here]: The Uses and Misuses of Popular Music L...

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

Bonnie Honig, American Bar Foundation, has published "Antigone's Laments, Creon's Grief: Mourning, Membership and the Politics ...

Eric Engle, University of Bremen, has published "Law and Literature: Instilling Norms by Fable in Rousseau's Emile." Here is t...

Via On the Media , a piece by Zachary Pincus-Roth about how phones are vital to the plots of so many Hollywood films.

The New York Times has this feature article about The Laramie Project, a docuplay about the Matthew Shepard murder, which took place ten y...

DePaul College of Law Announces: 8th Annual Symposium Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting Amer...

Julie Bosman writes in the New York Times about a cache of tapes found recently featuring Agatha Christie's own voice and discussing a n...

The New York Times' John Eligon plays "What Not To Wear" in this article about fashion flair among legal eagles. Says Mr. Elig...

Professor Lior Strahilevitz (U. Chicago Law School) has an interesting post about Franz Kafka's papers. The famous story about Kafka...

Some early reviews are in for Steven Bochco's new legal drama Raising the Bar. Barry Garron of the Hollywood Reporter finds the series,...

Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published "Damages: The Truth is Out There," forthcoming in Lawyer...

Jo J. Carrillo, Hastings College of the Law, has published "Links and Choices: Popular Legal Culture in the Work of Lawrence M. Friedma...

Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto School of Law, has published "Copying and Copyright Issues at the Litchfield Law School," ...

Taunya Lovell Banks, University of Maryland School of Law, has published "Judging the Judges - Daytime Television's Integrated Real...

Proposals Due September 25, 2008 The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals...

David S. Wall, University of Leeds, has published, "Cybercrime and the Culture of Fear: Social Science Fiction(s) and the Production of...

Robin L. West, Georgetown University Law Center, has published, "Literature, Culture, and Law - At Duke University," in Teaching ...

Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published "Cross-Examining Film," in volume 8 of the University of Maryland Law...

MSNBC.com has this story about a Wisconsin woman who failed to return two books in a timely fashion to her local public library, and paid n...

Donald E. Shelton, Eastern Michigan University, has published "The 'CSI Effect': Does it Really Exist?" in volume 259 of t...

Michael P. Maslanka, the managing partner of Ford & Harrison in Dallas, has this article on Law.com about why lawyers should read Shakes...

Julien Mezey Dissertation Award The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites submissions for its 2009 Julien Mez...

Ian Ward, University of Newcastle, has published "The Rochester Wives," in Law & Humanities, v. 2 (2008). Here is the abstract...

Daphne Barazk-Erez, Tel Aviv University, has published "The Law of Historical Films: in the aftermath of Jenin Jenin," at 16 South...

Andrew Klavan writes in the Wall Street Journal that Batman, at least as he is portrayed in the new film The Dark Knight, and George W. Bush...

Doron Menashe, University of Haifa, Research Authority, and Hamutal Esther Shamash, have published "Pass These Sirens By: Further Thoug...

Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick School of Law, has published "Examining Law Through the Lens of Literature: The Formation of Mar...

James Boyd White, University of Michigan Law School, has published "Establishing Relations between Law and Other Forms of Thought and L...

Barbara Pozzo, University of Insubria, Department of Law and Economics of Firms and Persons, has published "A Suitable Boy: The Aboliti...

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions (Re-posting) 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 9 - 12, 2009 ...

Israeli Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting Global, Regional, and Local: Law, Politics, and Society in Comparative Perspectives Inte...

Arnold Heidsieck, University of Southern California, has published "Fictional and Non-Fictional Uses of Administrative, Civil, and Crim...

Joachim Linder, editor of the online journal IASL Online , invites those interested to submit titles for review in the journal, and to indic...

NPR has this essay about Stella Rimington , the first woman director of Britain's MI5, and her books featuring intelligence officer Liz...

Colin Miller, of EvidenceProfBlog, has this interesting blogpost about Kathy Reichs as an expert witness, in the notorious Ohio nun killer...

Julie Smith , the author of a number of crime novels set in New Orleans (and in San Francisco) discusses the difficulty of taking up writing...

Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn of the University of Westminster, and Peter Robson of the University of St. Andrews have published "Gen...

Over at WSJ blog, Dan Slater writes about a Fair Housing Act case involving a condo association that prohibited all objects in hallways. ...

Lance McMillian, John Marshall Law School, Atlanta, has published "Tortured Souls: Unhappy Lawyers Viewed Through the Medium of Film....

Here's more about Nathan Sawaya, former attorney turned LEGO artist. CNN features him in this story .

A new British legal drama is causing a whirlwind of commentary among barristers. Peter Moffat's Criminal Justice debuted Monday, and im...

Call for Papers and Witness The University of Toledo College of Law is pleased to announce a universal and interdisciplinary conference on S...

Some new and newer law and humanities titles. Boulhosa, Patricia Pires, Icelanders and the Kings of Norway: Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts ...

Olufunmilayo Arewa, Northwestern University Law School, has published "Borrowing the Blues: Context and the Copyright of Robert Johnson...

The New York Times features a walking tour of the city as seen through the eyes of Weegee (Arthur Fellig), the legendary photographer, who p...

CALL FOR PAPERS SYMPOSIUM ON CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT AND THE LAW CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CITIZENSHIP...

From Professor Tracy Thomas, University of Akron The editors of a proposed book, Feminist Legal History: New Perspectives on Law seek submi...

The Association for Law, Culture, and the Humanities has posted its annual Call for papers. Here's the link to the website. Here's ...

Chris Colin, who writes for the San Francisco Chronicle, sent me a link to his piece on his friend Jose Klein, a newly minted Harvard Law gr...