Law & Humanities Blog

Too good to overlook, and because I disagree with those who think puns are a lower form of intellectual life; I think good puns require esp...

Here's more on the "CSI Effect." Tamara Francita Lawson, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published Before the Verdict...

Sharon Cowan has published The Elvis We Deserve: The Social Regulation of Sex/Gender and Sexuality Through Cultural Representations of '...

Robert P. Burns, Northwestern University School of Law, has published The Death of the American Trial (University of Chicago Press, 2009). H...

Megan L. Richardson, University of Melbourne Law School, and David Tan have published The Art of Retelling: Harry Potter and Copyright in a ...

On April 23, discover your inner Shakespeare . CNN suggests these websites for further inspiration: Talk Like Shakespeare and The Shakespear...

NPR has this story about the truth behind the film American Violet , premiering this month. American Violet dramatizes an ill-conceived ra...

Eve Sedgwick, the literary theorist, has died. Here is an article from the New York Times discussing her life and legacy.

From Jessica Silbey: The Law & Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor a symposium celebrating the memory of J. Allen Smith, outstand...

Justin Hansford, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Jailing a Rainbow: Death by Narrative and the Marcus Garvey Case , in volum...

Call for Contributions Law, Language and Discourse Editors: Anne Wagner (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale), Jixian Pang (Zhejiang Unive...

Eric Heinze, Queen Mary, University of London School of Law, has published "Power Politics and the Rule of Law: Shakespeare's First...

Global Harmony and the Rule of Law 24th IVR World Congress Special Workshop no. 28: Law and Literature Coordinator: Enrico Pattaro Honorary ...

Via Electratig , and then on little cat feet to Legal History Blog , I came across this gem : Brian Morton's L'Isle de Gilligan. Mr....

Cardozo Law School is hosting a program called "In Flagrante Depicto: A Program on Film In/On Trial." It runs May 7-8. PRAWFSBLAWG...

Bev Clucas, University of Hull School of Law, has published "24 and Torture," in Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities (B. Clu...

Bentley Coffey, Clemson University, and Patrick A. McLaughlin, George Mason University, Mercatus Center, have published, "From Lawyer t...

From Ileana Porras, Brown University International Affairs at Brown University is proud to announce the launch of an exciting new faculty de...

Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property American University Washington College of Law’s...

Fordham University Press announces the publication of the 2008 ACLA René Wellek Prize Winner Joseph R. Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc.: The W...

Peter Tiersma, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has published What is Language and Law? And Does Anyone Care? in Law and Language: Theory an...

From Nick Federico, Deans Fellow to Professor Anthony Varona, Professor of Law at the American University, Washington College of Law CALL FO...

Eric Heinze, Queen Mary, University of London School of Law, has published "Heir, Celebrity, Martyr, Monster: Legal and Political Legit...

Keith A. Rowley, UNLV Law School, has published "In There a Lawyer in the (White) House?: Portraying Lawyers on The West Wing," i...

Carolyn Grose, William Mitchell College of Law, has published 'Once Upon a Time, in a Land Far, Far Away': Lawyers and Clients Telli...

Gaetan Breton, University du Quebec (Montreal), has published "Semiotic Analysis of Storytelling in the Annual Report." Here is th...

Erik Jensen of Case Western Reserve Law School makes the case for judicial sartorial minimalism. But what, I ask, does this say about judici...

Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Law, has published "Property and Progress: Antebellum Landscape...

From Professor Matt LeMieux, University of Osnabrück, comes news of this summer school program: Convergences: Law, Language and Culture Firs...

DIVERSITY AND TOLERANCE IN SOCIO-LEGAL CONTEXTS: EXPLORATIONS IN THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW, Wagner, Anne and Bhatia, Vijay K., eds., Ashgate, 200...

Lance McMillian, John Marshall Law School (Atlanta), has published "All Roads Lead to Rome, Wisconsin: Judge Henry Bone, Douglas Wambau...

Nelson Lund, George Mason University School of Law, has published "Montesquieu, Judicial Degeneracy, and the United States Supreme Cour...

From the New York Times's Brent Staples, a survey of "The Ape in American Bigotry, From Thomas Jefferson to 2009." Provocativ...

Ruth Buchanan, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Rebecca Johnson, University of Victoria Faculty of Law, have published "Strange Encounters:...

Ryan Benjamin Witte, Columbia University Law School and Florida State University College of Law, has published "The Judge as an Author/...

Timothy P. O'Neill, John Marshall Law School (Chicago), has published "There Will Be Blame: Misfortune and Injustice in 'The Sw...

The American Bar Association is presenting a program on Lincoln in pop culture: The Lincoln Myth: How Pop Culture Defines America's Grea...

The Italian Society for Law and Literature, headquartered at the University of Bologna, is organizing the 24th IVR World Congress on Law and...

Paul B. Bergman, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, has published "Rumpole and the Bowl of Comfort Food," in La...

Remember the inheritance device behind the death in Agatha Christie's mystery 4:50 From Paddington? (That novel is also known as What Mr...

John M. Kang, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published "Taking Safety Seriously: Using Liberalism to Fight Pornography,"...

John M. Kang, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published "Manliness and the Constitution," at 32 Harvard Journal of Law an...

Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published 'Ghostwriters': Spiritualists, Copyright Infringement, and...

Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, Department of English, has published "Human Rights and Testimonial Fiction: Alicia Partnoy an...

From the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP): Three Important Announcements LCCHP 2009 Student Writing Com...

John V. Orth, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Law, has published "'The Golden Metwand': The Measure of Jus...

Here is the table of contents for volume 22 of the International Journal of the Semiotics of Law (no. 1, 2009--Special Issue: Lawyers Making...

Elizabeth L. MacDowell, Chapman University School of Law, has published "Law on the Street: Legal Narrative and the Street Law Classroo...

CALL FOR ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS CRN No. 9 (Gender and Legal Education) LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING May 28-31, 2009 Denver, ...

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2009) (2-5 December 2009) TRANSPARENCY, CONTROL AND POW...