Law & Humanities Blog

Katya Assaf III has published "The Dilution of Culture and the Law of Trademarks" in volume 49 of IDEA: The Journal of Law and Tec...

The British Library is making available an important archive of nineteenth century papers at British Newspapers 1800-1900 . Read more here .

A book on the Alger Hiss case : Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Yale University Press, 2009).

Randall P. Bezanson, University of Iowa College of Law, and Andrew Finkelman have published "Trespassory Art," in volume 43 of the...

Neil M. Richards, Washington University School of Law, has published "Privacy and the Limits of History," in volume 21 of the Yale...

Cokesbury College, a small Methodist institution in Maryland, burned to the ground in December 1795, and the cause was probably arson. But w...

Edward Balleisen, Duke University, Department of History, has published "Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Busines...

Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published "The Influence on Marcus Tullius Cicero on Modern L...

From the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, announcement of a Call for Papers for a Special Issue. Submit abstracts to the edit...

The manager of the acquisitions department for the University of Michigan Press suggests that women authors need to "get more aggressiv...

Paul J. Heald, University of Georgia Law School, has published "The Death of Law and Literature," as UGA Legal Studies Research Pa...

Newly published: Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television (Michael Asimow, ed., Chicago: ABA, 2009). Actors Sam Waterston (I'll Fl...

Ron Rosenbaum comments for Slate on the J. D. Salinger lawsuit over 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye here .

Jennifer E. Rothman, Loyola of Los Angeles Law School, has published "Custom, Comedy and the Value of Dissent," at 95 Virginia Law...

Cartalk.com promoted a great new website last Saturday, Craig Damrauer's More New Math , which is word play for those of us who prefer n...

Amy M. Adler, New York University, School of Law, has published "Medusa: A Glimpse of the Woman in First Amendment Law," forthcomi...

Christopher Hitchens on John Mortimer.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer discussed Nancy Drew with Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md). Both apparently remember the titian-haired...

Christopher Terranova, New York University School of Law, has published Loaded Words in the Courtroom . Here is the abstract. A few ju...

Sarah Beresford, University of Lancaster, has published Judging a Book by its Cover The Deployment (and) Unsettling of Familial Images on Fa...

Actor Mike Doyle explains how to die effectively on camera.

In his review essay on Star Trek: The Exhibition , Edward Rothstein points out a number of anachronisms and anamolies, most stemming from t...

The late John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. His representation in popular culture is ubiquitous. Think of movies that dramati...

Happy birthday to G. K. Chesterton, born May 29, 1874, author of the Father Brown stories, and The Man Who Was Thursday, as well as works of...

M. J. Williams has published Framing Art Vandalism: A Proposal to Address Violence Against Art in volume 74 of the Brooklyn Law Review (200...

From Penelope Andrews, Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law CALL FOR PAPERS - Law and Literature Association of Australia a...

Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, has published Imperialism and Nationalism in Early Modernity: The 'Cosmopol...

From Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University: LAW AND JUSTICE ON THE SMALL SCREEN Invitation to Contributors We are compiling a collection of ess...

From Concurring Opinions, this post from Deven Desai discussing a Law.com article about what some judges think about how women lawyers dre...

8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 13 - 16, 2010 Waikiki Beach Marriot Resort & Spa and Hilton ...

Greedy Associates, the blog for FindLaw, posts about new legal dramas for fall and midseason. CBS promises us The Good Wife and ABC The Dee...

Jessie Hill, Case Western Reserve School of Law, has published Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: Ceremonial Deism and Change in Meaning...

John C. Gooch, University of Texas, Dallas, School of Arts & Humanities, has published Imagining the Law and the Constitution of Societa...

From The Irish Times , via the blog Cearta.ie : a musing on the "gist" or "sting" of a defamatory statement.

Some physicists view the new Tom Hanks/Dan Brown thriller Angels & Demons as great publicity for their profession. Read more here in a ...

While I was looking for something else on SSRN, I came across this interesting paper by Naomi Reed. Naomi Reed, Columbia University, The Wag...

If there's securities malfeasance, or should that be misfeasance--in a tv storyline should the SEC, the FTC, or the FCC be concerned? Or...

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Jennifer Howard writes about Ruth B. Bottigheimer, whose works on the origins of fairy tales have ot...

Melissa L. Tatum, University of Arizona College of Law, Robert E. Spoo, University of Tulsa College of Law, and Benjamin Pope, University of...

In the most current issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (volume 5, issue 2, 2009): A number of Commentaries on the subject of "Cr...

George H. Taylor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published The Distinctiveness of Legal Hermeneutics , in Ricoeur Across the Di...

Nate Oman writes about the current financial crisis and the Merchant of Venice over at Concurring Opinions. Professor Oman begins, "Ov...

Rachel F. Moran, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; University of California, Irvine, Law School, and Devon W. Carbado, Univ...

Brian Bix, University of Minnesota Law School, has published Law and Language: How Words Mislead Us . Here is the abstract. This talk ...

Gretchen Bakke, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, has published How the Black Guys Got to Kill All the White Guys and Still Be...

Colin P. Starger, New York University School of Law, has published The DNA of an Argument: A Case Study in Legal Logos , in the Journal of C...

Manohla Dargis reviews the new Star Trek film for the New York Times here .

Call For Papers International Annual Meeting of Israeli Law and Society Association, to be held in Tel Aviv on December 20-21, 2009. The mai...

Critical Legal Conference 2009 "Genealogies: Excavating Legal Modernity" September 11-13, 2009 Leicester, UK www.le.ac.uk/law/clc2...

From Newsweek's latest issue, a discussion of Star Trek 's fan fiction, referred to as "slash fiction," here .