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American University Washington College of Law IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections 6th Annual Symposium April 24, 2009 Special Theme: Female...

If you like, or are interested in trying to write crime fiction, check out the blog Hey There's a Dead Guy in the Living Room , written ...

Simon Stern, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, has published "Law and Literature Seminar, Draft Syllabus." Here is the abstra...

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Utopian Studies on Law and Utopia Guest Editor: Peter Sands, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Utopias are...

Michael Asimow, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, and Richard Weisberg, Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law, have...

Posted on behalf of Ruth Ann Robbins, Rutgers-Camden School of Law Once Upon a Legal Time, Chapter Two: Applied Storytelling in Law Lewis ...

From the Stetson Law Review In December 2009 the Stetson Law Review will publish a symposium issue on law, literature, and film. Articles ...

Camille Nelson, Saint Louis University School of Law, has published "Lyrical Assault: Dancehall Versus the Cultural Imperialism of the ...

P. G. Monateri, University of Turin, School of Law, has published "Sovereign Ambiguity - From Hamlet to Benjamin via Eliot and Schmitt....

Professor Robert Tsai (American University, Washington College of Law), who previously guest blogged here in January 2006, has just publish...

Author Michael Crichton has died. The physician and author (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Coma) was 66.

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

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Charles Robinson, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, has prepared an editio...

Tony Hillerman, the author of numerous bestselling mysteries featuring Navajo sleuths Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, has died of pulmonary failu...

Arnold Heidsieck, University of Southern California, has published "On Judaism, Christianity, Anti-Semitism in Kafka's the Castle, ...

From EvidenceProfBlog: Colin Miller writes cleverly and authoritatively about claims brought against Superman by a victim he rescues in an ...

Erik M. Jensen, Case Western Reserve School of Law, has published "The Intellectual History of 'The Shortest Article in Law Review ...

Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law, has published "Laughing Whitefish: A Tale of Justice and Anishinaabe ...

Aaron Schwabach, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has published "The Harry Potter Lexicon and the World of Fandom: Fan Fiction, Outsider...

Arnold Heidsieck, University of Southern California, has published "Kafka's Narrative Innovation and Ethical Intuitions." Here...

Hart Publishing is offering a new title called Shakespeare and the Law, edited by Paul Raffield and Gary Watt. It collects the proceedings ...

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...