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Israeli Law and Society Association International Conference Secularism, Nationalism and Human Rights: Law and Politics in the Middle East a...

Happy Birthday to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born this day in 1749, died March 22, 1832. Goethe was the son of a lawyer, and studied law in...

Writer Dominick Dunne has died . Mr. Dunne was the author of a number of popular novels taking society and crime as their theme, including T...

Michael Kimmelman examines the popular German police drama Tatort (Crime Scene) for the New York Times here. Notes Mr. Kimmelman, “Tatort” ...

In her current column in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Ms. Mentor discusses some academic novels of note, including those that kill of...

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

MSNBC.com has this interesting article on the influence of L. Frank Baum's classic The Wizard of Oz and its iconic characters on popula...

NBC has ordered a pilot of the legal drama offered up by Andrew Leeds and David Lampson. "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer" is the second tr...

From Professor Andrew Majeske, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Call For Papers Second Biennial Literature and L...

From Professor Andrew Majeske, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Manuscripts Sought The Fairleigh Dickinson Univer...

Talk of the Nation has this feature on fall's shows.

Russell D. Covey, Georgia State University College of Law, has published "Criminal Madness: Cultural Iconography and Insanity," in...

From Anthony Varona, American University School of Law In case you have not yet received it, here is the full preliminary conference schedul...

The new season of Mad Men premieres Sunday on AMC .

Lively discussion between Nancy Lemon and Christina Hoff Sommers over Myths or Facts in Feminist Scholarship? in The Chronicle Review .

The latest craze: "auto-tuning" the news, courtesy of Antares Audio Technologies. Here's a clip from CNN. The creators incl...

From Women Make Movies WMM NEW RELEASE! MRS. GOUNDO'S DAUGHTER A new film about a young Malian mother's fight with the U.S. legal sy...

The New York Times has an interview with NASA bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe here .

Call for Papers: “Ah Got De Law in My Mouth”: Black Women Writing Justice 41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association...

From Susan Sage Heinzelman For details on the joint conference from Dec 2 to Dec 5th 2009, in brisbane, Australia, and the call for papers, ...

From Susan Sage Heinzelman Law & Society Post-doctoral Fellowship 2010-11 Academic Year Institute for Legal Studies – University of Wisc...

From Fiona Barrett, Director, HASTAC Scholars Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers: The NEH is sponsoring a number of Fellowships that ...

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 13 - 16, 2010 Waikiki Beac...

Found while I was looking for something else: Lisa Kadonaga, Strange Countries and Secret Worlds in Ruth Rendell's Crime Novels , 88 Geo...

More legal and law-related drama promised from the USA Network. The series under development include Hotel Dix , about a hotel detective (he...

From Steven Zeitchick's Risky Biz Blog , this news: Ridley Scott is making a film out of Aldous Huxley's iconic novel Brave New Worl...

Stephen E. Smith, Santa Clara University, ha spublished "The Poetry of Persuasion: Early Literary Theory and Its Advice to Legal Writer...

Eric Engle, Harvard University Law School, has published "Language, Logic, and Law: Death of Reason or Dearth of Reasons?" Here is...

The 9th International Roundtable for Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2010), 3-6 September 2010 - Poznań Legal Rules, Moral Norms AND Democratic Princ...

Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan on why vampires live forever .

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From History Today: Julie Peakman writes about "blaming and shaming in whore's memoirs." Men may have had power, but women oft...

The New York Times' Tara Parker-Pope discusses the flood of alcohol in the newest Harry Potter movie. Previous Harry Potter movies have ...

The AP reports on a Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) study that found that HBO features more gay, bisexual, and transg...

NPR has a great interview with Ed Adams, editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, who discusses the 25 Top TV Legal Shows here .

From the ABA site, this piece by Debra Cassens Weiss, noting that Associate Justice Stephen Breyer made his acting debut as the Ghost in Ha...

The ABA features the Top Twenty-Five Lawyer Shows, as chosen by a jury of 12 (of course!) here . Says its news release: Perry Mason always c...

From Keith Bybee, Syracuse University School of Law Call for Participation: 13th Annual ASLCH Conference March 19-20, 2010 Brown University...

From Nancy Levit, Professor of Law, UMKC UMKC Law Review “One-L Revisited” Law Stories Contest Introduction by Scott Turow With stories b...

Harold H. Bruff's new book Bad Advice: Bush's Lawyers in the War on Terror (University of Kansas Press, 2009) begins with a chapter ...

From the Risky Biz Blog comes news that Ayn Rand's meganovel, Atlas Shrugged, might finally be headed for the big screen with Charlize ...

NPR on the current flock (herd?) of werewolves . For more about werewolves, see Werewolves in Literature .

Courting Justice , a new film from Women Make Movies , may interest readers of the Law and Humanities Blog. Here's the description. From...

Coverage of the ABA's Silver Gavels Awards via Legal Bisnow . [Full disclosure: I'm a member of the ABA's Gavel Awards Screening...

Ed Morgan, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published "The Mild, Mild West: Living by a Code in Canadian Law and Film," a...

In yesterday's New York Times , Alessandra Stanley discusses Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's mention of the fictional Perry...

Lance McMillian, John Marshall Law School (Atlanta) has published "The Death of Law: A Cinematic Vision," forthcoming in the Unive...

Gary Watt, Reader and Associate Professor in Law, School of Law, University of Warwick, and an editor of the journal Law and Humanities , ha...

Amazon is now taking orders for both season 1 and the complete set of DVDs of Ally McBeal.

Zachary R. Calo, Valparaiso University School of Law, has published "Law, Language and Love: James Boyd White's Living Speech: Resi...