Law & Humanities Blog

Patricia Allen notes that life seems to have imitated art, at least in the case of the current Bernie Madoff scandal. She seeks out the com...

A round-up of selected titles published in law and literature in the past year or so. Almog, Shulamit, The poetics of the legal system in th...

Lorie Graham and Stephen M. McJohn, Suffolk University Law School, have published "Cognition, Law, Stories," in Minnesota Journal ...

Andrei Marmor, USC Gould School of Law, has published "What Does the Law Say? Semantics and Pragmatics in Statutory Language," for...

MSNBC.com's Susan Young has this story about the interesting moral dilemmas that television dramas pose "for fun." But do view...

Sherrilyn Ifill, University of Maryland, School of Law, has published "To Kill a Mockingbird Perspectives," at 41 Maryland Bar Jou...

Robert Leckey, McGill University Faculty of Law, has published "Filiation and the Translation of Legal Concepts," in Legal Enginee...

Bruce L. Hay, Harvard Law School, has published "The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer," in volume 29 of Cardozo Law Review (2008). ...

Jack Lee Sammons, Mercer University School of Law, has published "A Rhetorician's View of Religious Speech in Civic Argument,"...

From Suzanne Kim, Rutgers School of Law, Newark Rutgers School of Law-Newark is pleased to be celebrating its centennial this year. To hono...

Reinforcing and Resisting Feminist Representations: Spaces, Voices and Identities The 12th Annual Louisiana State University Women's and...

Patricia Louise Loughlan, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published "'You Wouldn't Steal a Car': Intellectual Prop...

Lolita Buckner Inniss, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law, has published "A Critical Legal Rhetoric Approach to 'In Re African-Americ...

CNN.com has this lengthy interview with Patricia Cornwell, author of the Kay Scarpetta novels.

Don't know what to give for the holidays? Pierre Bayard's Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervi...

Ian C. Bartrum, Yale Law School & Vermont Law School, has published "Metaphors and Modalities: Meditations on Bobbitt's Theory ...

Linda L. Berger, Mercer University School of Law, has published "How Embedded Knowledge Structures Affect Judicial Decision Making: An ...

Andre Marmor, USC Gould School of Law, has published "The Pragmatics of Legal Language," as USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 08-11....

Francis Joseph Mootz III, UNLV School of Law, has published "The Irrelevance of Contemporary Academic Philosophy for Law: Recovering th...

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

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...