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Péter Cserne, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), and Gergely Deli have published "Contracts and Morals: Towards an Economic Anal...

“Religious Legal Theory: The State of the Field” Seton Hall University School of Law Newark, New Jersey Thursday-Friday, November 12-13, 200...

Janice Nadler, Northwestern University School of Law and American Bar Foundation, and J. D. Trout, Loyola University of Chicago, have publis...

Who said the Civil War was fought over a verb: "The United States is" or "The United States are"? Minor Myers, Brooklyn ...

From MSNBC.com, why we are so fascinated with vampires . It's a thrill that's centuries old.

Cristina Costantini creates "word clouds" out of her writings using a program called Wordle . See examples here and here . Very ...

From NPR, this story about a possible coded message from the Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to California State Assemblyman Tom A...

Katie Rose Guest Pryal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has published "Law, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Copia: A Respo...

Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London School of Law, has published "'This Power Isn’t Power If It’s Shared': Law and Vio...

Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law, is publishing "Stories of Crimes, Trials and Appeals in Civil War Era Missou...

Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School, has published "Social Norms in the Courts of Ancient Athens," at 1 Journal of Legal Analysis 69...

From MSNBC.com, two stories about how television reflects the real world; a piece on the progress women have made in breaking through the gl...

John Mercer is publishing "A Mark of Distinction: Branding and Trade Mark Law in the UK from the 1860s," in Business History (fort...

Barry Godfrey, Keele University Department of Criminology, has published "Changing Prosecution Practices and Their Impact on Crime Figu...

This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine issues surrounding the conjunction between evil and the feminine. In many cultures women...

CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTH ANNUAL COMPARATIVE LAW WORKS IN PROGRESS WORKSHOP Ma...

Diane Auer Jones discusses her recent experience on a jury and notes that "CSI"-like tv shows have much more impact on jurors...

Jason Gillmer, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, has published "Telling Stories of Love, Sex, and Race." Here is the abstra...

Christine Sgarlata Chung, Albany Law School, has published "From Lily Bart to the Boom Boom Room: How Wall Street's Social and Cult...

Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA Sch...

Carolyn Grose, William Mitchell College of Law, has published "Storytelling Across the Curriculum: From Margin to Center, from Clinic t...

Lea B. Vaughn, University of Washington School of Law, has published "Feeling at Home: Learning, Law & Narrative." Here is the...

Law & Order's Rene Balcer discusses how those "ripped from the headlines" stories make it to the small screen. An NPR inte...

FindLaw's Marci Hamilton discusses the popular culture image of polygamy in Big Love and the reaction to the news of the arrest of dire...

Taunya Lovell Banks, University of Maryland School of Law, has published "What Documentary Films Teach Us About the Criminal Justice Sy...

Vivian Grosswald Curren, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published "Voices Saved from Vanishing," at 70 University of ...

Shulamit Almog and Amnon Reichman, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, have published "Ethics, Aesthetics, and Law: The Third Man’s Thr...

Benjamin A. Templin, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has published "The Marriage Contract in Fine Art," in volume 30 of the Northe...

Johanna Gibson, Queen Mary University of London School of Law, has published "The Lay of the Land: The Geography of Traditional Cultura...

For a listserv (the LAWPROF list) I put together some information on Law and Film Societies (not student orgs devoted to entertainment/sport...

And on the Freemasons , suddenly hip, with the publication of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol .

From NPR's Morning Edition , an interview with crime writer James Ellroy, who discusses his newest novel, Blood's a Rover .

Martha Grace Duncan, Emory University School of Law, has published "Beauty in the Dark of Night; The Pleasures of Form in Criminal Law,...

Mark Bartholomew, University at Buffalo Law School, has published "Advertising and Social Identity." Here is the abstract. This es...

Randy Cohen reviews the forthcoming Emmy show this Sunday on CBS and considers whether police dramas say anything true about the world of ...

Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published "Sports in the Courts: The Role of Sports References in Judicial...

Renee Newman Knake, Michigan State University College of Law, has published "Beyond Atticus Finch: Lessons on Ethics and Morality from ...

According to this article from MSNBC.com, some "House" viewers are taking the show too seriously, which can result in demands on ...

Kenneth D. Chestek, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, has published "Judging by the Numbers: An Empirical Study of the Po...

Helen A. Anderson, University of Washington School of Law, has published "Stories about Storytelling: 100 Years of Brief Writing Advice...

From Professor Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac Law School We invite you to join us for a one-day conference on Law and Love, to be held at Quinnipia...

The Wire's Idris Elba will star in a new crime drama written by Neil Cross for BBC1. Mr. Cross describes the series, called Luther, as ...

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Florida State University College of Law, has published "There's a Pennoyer in My Foyer: Civil Procedure A...

If you missed it, check out Jennifer L. Schulz's Confectionery and Conflict Resolution? What Chocolat Reveals about Mediation , Negotiat...

Michigan State University College of Law is hosting a symposium on business law and film called the Business Law and Narrative Symposium . T...

Jeanne C. Fromer, Fordham Law School, has published "Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory," in The Law and Theory ...

Marjorie Florestal, McGeorge School of Law, has published "Is a Burrito a Sandwich? Exploring Race, Class and Culture in Contracts,...

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...