Law & Humanities Blog

David Mills, screenwriter and blogger, has died of a brain aneurysm . He was co-executive producer of the HBO series Treme , set in New Orl...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, discussion of a new book on William Shakespeare that takes up the "who wrote Shakespeare" ...

John Jay College is hosting the Second Biennial Literature and Law Conference, April 16, 2010. JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE’S SECOND...

Law & Humanities Institute, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, and the Louise and Ard...

Elizabeth F. Judge, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) has published "Kidnapped and Counterfeit Characters: Eight...

Sharp-eyed Dr. Who fans perked up when the newly minted UK Space Agency debuted its logo. Did some Dalek infiltrate and supply the logo for ...

John Ip, University of Auckland Faculty of Law, has published The Dark Knight’s War on Terrorism . Here is the abstract. This article ...

Roger Berkowitz, Bard College, has published "Approaching Infinity: Dignity in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon ," in Philosophy...

From the new issue of Newsweek: the new look of prime time . It's white power, as exemplified by series such as FX's Justified , whi...

According to experts , that "literary hoax" that Alexander Pope made fun of in The Dunciad is a hoax no more. It really is by Sha...

Jhonny Antonio Pabon Cadavid has published "Approximation to the Copyright History: Normative Antecedents (Aproximación a La Historia D...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, a consideration of all that derivative Jane Austen literature by Amy Leal.

Nancy B. Rapoport, William S. Boyd School of Law (UNLV), has published "Where Have All the (Legal) Stories Gone?" at M/E Insights...

Michael B. Kent Jr., and Lance McMillian, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, have published "The World of Deadwood: Property Righ...

*Synergies: Law, Language and Culture* The Second International Osnabrueck Graduate Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law August 4t...

Lia Alexandra Mandaglio, currently a law student at the George Washington Law School, has posted Speaking Across the Divide: A Functional Gr...

DAAD Faculty Summer Seminar "Violence and the Law in German Cultures of Modernity" Directed by Prof. Isabel V. Hull, Cornell Unive...

American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and Jou...

Jeannie Suk, Harvard Law School, has published "'The Look in His Eyes': The Story of State v. Rusk and Rape Reform," in C...

Kenworthey Bliz, Northwestern University School of Law, is publishing "We Don't Want to Hear it: Psychology, Literature and the Nar...

Ross E. Davies and Craig D. Rust, George Mason University School of Law, have published "Supreme Court Sluggers: Behind the Numbers,...

Richard Delgado, Seattle University School of Law, has published "Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory," at...

Call For Papers at the Modern Language Association, 2011 Special Session: "Literature and Rights in the Age of Enlightenment" Thi...

At the Tate, a one day symposium on Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Justice on March 23, 2010.

Lance McMillian, John Marshall Law School (Atlanta) has published "Atticus Finch as Racial Accommodator: Answering Malcolm Gladwell...

From Penelope Pether, Villanova University School of Law, an announcement of a symposium on " Food, Culture and the Law ," on Febr...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, why Dumbledore is a good administrator (but check out the comments--some folks don't agree).

From Elizabeth Stockton, Southwestern University CFP: MLA 2011 (Los Angeles, CA) Law and Literature of the U.S. before 1900 Seeking papers t...

From Elliott Visconti at Yale Literary History and Constitutional Culture For the MLA’s next conference in Los Angeles (January 2011), the D...

Grant Morris of the University of San Diego Law School argues that in all those lists of great legal movies one great law related movie neve...

The Critical Legal Conference From Bald de Vries and Since 1984, every first weekend in September, the Critical Legal Conference brings toge...

Shaun Fluker, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, has published "Wilderness Narrative in Law: The View from Canada’s National Parks....

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...