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Mexican singer Sergio Vega, known as El Shaka, was assassinated last Saturday . Mr. Vega was known for his performances of the songs known a...

Michael Ruse stands up for the Hitchcock classic Rear Window here .

José Calvo González has published El alma y la ley. Tolstói entre juristas. España (1890-1928)(Sevilla: Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publ...

Daniel Albahary has published A Legal Analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and What it Means to Modern America . Here is the a...

Cynthia D. Bond, The John Marshall Law School, has published Laws of Race/Laws of Representation: The Construction of Race and Law in Contem...

Jeffrey G. Sherman, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent School of Law, has published Scorn Not the Sonnet: In Search of Shakespea...

CBS has posted video clips of its upcoming new legal drama "The Defenders", which stars John Belushi and Jerry O'Connell, here...

Happy Bloomsday. On December 6, 1933, Judge John Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's Ulysses could be imported into the United States, sinc...

From BLT, the blog of Legal Times, a post noting that actor Laurence Fishburne got a thank you from the District of Columbia Bar Foundation...

Announcement of a Law and Literary Studies Colloquium, June 23-25, at Hong Kong University. Here's a link to the website.

Michael Asimow, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, has published Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television an intro...

The New York Times reminds us that on this day in 1954 , attorney Joseph Welch faced down Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. On behalf on hi...

Penelope J. Pether, Villanova University School of Law, has published "Language, in the Law and the Humanities: An Introduction" ,...

Anne Wagner, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, and Jan M. Broekman, Pennsylvania State University School of Law, have published Prosp...

Jessica M. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published Evidence Verité and the Law of Film, at 31 Cardozo Law Review 1257 (2010). ...

Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law, and Roy Kreitner, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, an...

Roberta Linciano, University of Salento, has published 'Is that the Law?': Portia's Mockery of Justice in The Merchant of Venic...

Penelope J. Pether, Villanova University School of Law, has published Language, in the Law and the Humanities: An Introduction , in Law and ...

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...