Law & Humanities Blog

From the May 21 New York Times, a consideration of the image of Robin Hood in the movies via newly released DVDs . Dave Kehr writes about pr...

Wilt Lukas Idema, Harvard University Library, has published Introduction to Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories from the Per...

Along with Jim Belushi, Jerry O'Connell will star in the new legal drama, The Defenders , on CBS. Mr. O'Connell is learning whereof ...

Thomas D. Russell, University of Denver College of Law, has published ‘Keep the Negroes Out of Most Classes Where There Are a Large Number o...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Sentimental Frauds , at 36 Law & Social Inquiry (2011). Here is the abs...

Jeffrey G. Sherman, IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law, has published Scorn Not the Sonnet: In Search of Shakespeare's Law . Here is the ab...

CBS has picked up the new legal drama "Defenders ," in which Jim Belushi will star as a Las Vegas attorney who fights for the ...

Will " Law and Order " disappear from the airwaves? Rumors are flying as NBC executives apparently discuss furiously with Dick Wo...

Brennan P. Breeland has published I Am Jack's Radical Self-Degradation: A Pedagogical Argument for the Inclusion of the Indigenous Narra...

Nicholas Adam Curott and Alexander Fink, George Mason University, have published Bandit Heroes: Social, Mythical or Rational? . Here is the ...

End of exam grading (or maybe just lazy mid-spring reading): from Malcolm Gladwell, in the New Yorker , musings on the story of a man who ne...

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, The Westminster International Law and Theory Centre, University of Westminster,has published Repetition...

Murray Bessette, Morehead State University, has published "Montesquieu on Nature and Law: A Preface to the Understanding of the Spirit ...

The new issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is out. It includes: Charles Barbour, Sovereign Times; Acts of Creation James R. Martel, ...

Joshua Wilson and Erin Ackerman have published "TV Judges and the Civil Law Narrative" as a Western Political Science Association...

Chad M. Oldfather, Marquette University Law School, has published "Oral History and the Study of the Judiciary," in volume 78 of ...

This post probably would have been à propos April 15, but it's still interesting. From Paul Caron's Tax Prof blog, here are "Ta...

Jessica D. Gabel, Georgia State University College of Law, has published Forensiphilia: Is the Public Fascination with Forensic Science a Lo...

Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published Visits to a Small Planet: Rights Talk in Some Science Fiction Film...

David Ray Papke, Marquette University Law School, has published Oil and Water Do Not Mix: Constitutional Law and American Popular Culture , ...

Geoffrey P. Miller, New York University School of Law, has published The Dark Age: How the Biblical Narratives Demonstrate the Necessity fo...

Vijay K. Bhatia and Anne Wagner, series editors, are very pleased to announce that Ashgate will edit a new Series entitled Law, Language and...

Hector Lewis MacQueen, University of Edinburgh School of Law, has published Lawyers' Edinburgh 1908-2008 , at 8 Book of the Old Edinburg...

Dawinder S. Sidnu has published Wartime America and The Wire: A Response to Posner’s Post-9/11 Constitutional Framework in volume 20 of th...

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

Donald F. Tibbs, Drexel University School of Law, has published Who Killed Oscar Grant?: A Legal-Eulogy of the Cultural Logic of Black Hyper...

Judith D. Fischer, University of Louisville School of Law, has published Abraham Lincoln as a Legal Writer . Here is the abstract. This arti...

Adrienne D. Davis has published Film Review: Masculinity & Interracial Intimacy in 'Star Trek' and 'Gran Torino' , as Wa...

Some early reviews are in on the new series devoted to post-Katrina New Orleans.

Timothy K. Armstrong, University of Cincinnati College of Law, has published "Rich Texts: Wikisource as an Open Access Repository for L...

ABEBOOKS.COM offers a list of "Murder on the Literary Express: Ten Top Train Thrillers." I've rearranged the list alphabetica...

Ruthann Robson, City University of New York, CUNY School of Law, has published "Democracy and Antigone," in volume 39 of the Stets...

For Raising the Bar fans, DVDs of the first season are out, and the second season DVDs will be available May 11th.

Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center, has published "Our Unsettled Ninth Amendment: An Essay on Unenumerated Rights ...

The USA network is nurturing some new shows for next season , including a new legal drama, A Legal Mind , from Aaron Korsh, whose last attem...

The University of Maryland is hosting UMUC’s Center for Intellectual Property to Host 2010 Symposium on Sustaining Culture in Copyright WHAT...

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...