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From Anne Wagner, Editor, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law We live in a world of rapid global changes, which we nonetheless se...

A wonderful, densely written book that you shouldn't miss: Gary Watt's Equity Stirring: The Story of Justice Beyond Law (Hart Publi...

Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Lévi-Strauss Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas McGill Univers...

From Jessica Silbey, news of this year's AALS Section on Law and the Humanities 2010 AALS Conference, New Orleans Reasoning from Literat...

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus Blog has this piece about Lost University , a project of the folks over at ABC's ...

John M. Conley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Law, and Robin H. Conley, UCLA Department of Anthropology, have publish...

And it's back. Aaron Zelinksy, Yale Law School, is publishing "The Justice as Commissioner: Benching the Judge-Umpire Analogy,...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law, has published "It’s No Game: The Practice and Process of the Law in Baseball, an...

Ellen P. Aprill, Loyola Law School (Los Angeles, has published "A Tax Lawyer's Interpretation of Shakespeare," at 13 ABA Secti...

Paul Raffield, University of Warwick School of Law, has published "'Terras Astraea reliquit’: Titus Andronicus and the Loss of Just...

Paul Raffield, University of Warwick School of Law, has published "The Comedy of Errors and the Meaning of Contract," in Shakespe...

John M. Kang, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published "Appeal to Heaven: On the Religious Origins of the Constitutional Righ...

A couple of articles on law and the art by the New York Times' Adam Liptak: here on Daniel Moore and here on Donald Johnson , serving t...

Charles Darwin has his own minstrel. The Scientist's Victoria Stern writes about Philadelphia entertainer Brett Keyser, who sings about ...

Edward Larson, Pepperdine University School of Law, has published "Murder Will Out: Rethinking the Right of Publicity Through One Clas...

Larry E. Ribstein, University of Illinois College of Law, has published "How Movies Created the Financial Crisis" , in the Michiga...

Jennifer Bard, Texas Tech University School of Law, Thomas William Mayo, Southern Methodist School of Law, and Stacey A. Tovino, Drake Unive...

From the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP) The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP)...

P. G. Monateri, University of Turin School of Law has published "'Cunning Passages': Traductology, Comparison and Ideology in t...

Reza Banakar, University of Westminster School of Law, has published "In Search of Heimat: A Note on Franz Kafka’s Concept of Law,...

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW and SOCIETY JOB DESCRIPTION: Successful candidates will be expected to teach courses in each of the following cat...

From Robin S. Stewart, Department of English, University of California, Irvine, Information on the Webcast of the UCI Graduate Student Confe...

Nancy J. Knauer, Temple University School of Law, has published Legal Fictions and Juristic Truth , in volume 22 of St. Thomas Law Review (2...

Alfred S. Konefsky, University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY, has published "Simon Greenleaf, Boston Elites and the Social Meaning and Co...

Ian Ward, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Faculty of Law, has published Law, Text, Terror , forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. ...

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...

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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...