Law & Humanities Blog

Alessandra Stanley on "Damages" and that ripped-from-the-headlines feel as the third season premieres. Another legendary actor, L...

James Lee, University of Birmingham School of Law, has published "Confusio: Reference to Roman Law in the House of Lords and the Develo...

Lance McMillian, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, has published "Atticus Finch as Racial Accommodator: Answering Malcolm Gladwel...

From the New York Times, a review of Harrison Ford's new film, Extraordinary Measures.

Desmond Manderson, McGill University Faculty of Law, and Paul Yachnin have published "Shakespeare and Judgment: The Renewal of Law and ...

David Sugarman, Lancaster University Law School, has published "Beyond Ignorance and Complacency: Robert Stevens’ Journey Through Lawye...

Bonnie Honig, American Bar Foundation, has published "Antigone’s Two Laws: Greek Tragedy and the Future of Humanism," as American...

"The Deep End" premieres tomorrow night on ABC at 8 p.m., 7 Central Time. In the pilot: "Dylan is given an impossible pro-bo...

Barbara Lauriat, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, has published "Charles Reade's Roles in the Drama of Victorian Dramatic Copyr...

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

New Collection: The Law and Harry Potter, edited by Jeffrey E. Thomas and Franklin G. Snyder (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). This volume co...

New publication: Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays (Christine A. Corcos, ed., Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2010). This collection of...

Palma Strand, Creighton University School of Law, has published "Law as Story: A Civic Concept of Law," at 18 Southern California...

From the New York Times, a review of the new Sherlock Holmes film, starring Robert Downey and Jude Law.

Andrei Marmor, USC Gould School of Law, has published "Can the Law Imply More than it Says? On Some Pragmatic Aspects of Strategic Spee...

Dan E. Stigall, U. S. Army JAG Corps, has published "The Rule of Kings and the Rule of Law: Representations of Law and Power in 'Si...

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,...

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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...