Law & Humanities Blog

Ah, the Socratic Method, pedagogical tool beloved of law students. NOT. Angus Kennedy examines some new books devoted to the life and legacy...

In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Evan R. Goldstein  reviews Douglas Starr's new book exploring the origins of criminology, The Kil...

Carolyn Grose, William Mitchell College of Law, has published Storytelling Across the Curriculum: From Margin to Center, from Clinic to the ...

The Eleventh Judicial Circuit and Miami-Dade County reached back--far back--to re-enact Al Capone's perjury trial. Partly out of nostalg...

From the New York Times , an account of the legal battle over Franz Kafka literary legacy. The parties: the National Library of Israel and t...

Emlyn Walter Cruickshank, Australian National University College of Law, has published Dialogues of Indifference: Albert Camus' 'The...

SpearIt, Saint Louis University School of Law, has published Spreading the Faith: Music and Culture , in Muslims in U.S. Prisons (Nawal Amma...

The University of Alabama School of Law is launching a prize to honor the best book in legal fiction published in the year. It is named afte...

Two instructors at Harvard are using HBO's "The Wire" as fodder for a course in urban inequality. One of them, William Juliu...

Julien Mezey Dissertation Award NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1/11/11 The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites su...

Lewis Unglesby, the defense attorney for a seventeen year old Louisiana man accused of murder, says viewings of the Showtime series " D...

CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law ‘Intercultural Awareness in Legal Language’ Conference Venue: Publ...

Laurent de Sutter, FWO Senior Researcher, Law, Sciences, Technology & Society, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, has issued a...

Vincent Chetail, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, has published Vattel and the Semantics of International Law: A...

Carolyn Grose, William Mitchell College of Law, has published Storytelling Across the Curriculum: From Margin to Center, from Clinic to the ...

Kenneth D. Chestek, Indiana University, Indianapolis, has published Judging by the Numbers: An Empirical Study of the Power of Story in vol...

Michael H. Hoffmeier, University of Mississippi, has published Rule of Law in Bollywood Translations of ‘Devdas’ and ‘Parineeta’ at Florida...

Derek H. Keirnan-Johnson, University of Colorado Law School, has published Telling Through Type: Typography and Narrative in Legal Briefs , ...

Laurence Grove, Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context (Berghan Books). Marlisa Santos, The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and ...

Wendy Adams, McGill University Faculty of Law, has published ‘I Made a Promise to a Lady’: Critical Legal Pluralism as Improvised Law in Buf...

The new book out on Charlie Chan , the fictional detective, is getting good reviews. Author Yunte Huang explores the origins, influence and ...

From the Atlantic Monthly : the lingering effects of the soap opera, even as soap operas bite the dust. All those dasterdly evil twins! All ...

Jessica M. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published Introduction to Symposium: Reasoning from Literature , at 22 Yale Journal of...

Linda Edwards, UNLV School of Law, has published Once Upon a Time in Law: Myth, Metaphor, and Authority as UNLV William S. Boyd School of L...

Edward Larson, Pepperdine University School of Law, has published An American Tragedy: Retelling the Leopold-Loeb Story in Popular Culture ,...

SpearIt, Saint Louis University School of Law, has published Enslaved by Words: Limits and Liminalities of 'Post-Racial' Language . ...

Roberta Linciano, University of Salento, has published Musing Upon the Imperfect Justice of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure . Here is ...

Walter Dellinger on Mad Men (the show, that is).

On this day in 1974, Richard M. Nixon became the first U.S. President to resign, unable to overcome the rather deleterious effects of the Wa...

If you've been wondering what the television drama Hung (HBO) is really about, the New York Times' Ginia Bellafante explains it all...

Pierre Schlag, University of Colorado Law School, has published Critical Legal Studies , in 295 The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Leg...

Brando Simeo Starkey, Harvard Law School Research Fellow; Equal Justice Society, has published Jim Crow and the Birth of Uncle Tom: Law’s Im...

Stanley Fish on Law and Order: TOS . (And a law and pop culture doink-doink to everyone.)

A friend at the University of Lodz sent this trailer for a digital film which commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising of 19...

Rebecca Johnson, University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, has published "Living Deadwood: Imagination, Affect, and the Persistence of t...

Allen Mendenhall, West Virginia University, Temple University, and Furman University, has published Shakespeare's Place in Law-and-Liter...

And academics, their readers, and viewers to have had so much interest in the horror film. Well, apparently they do, according to this artic...

Reinhard Zimmermann, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, has published Roman Law and European Culture (Derec...

From Stanford University Press: Stanford University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature, a...

Janet Ainsworth, Seattle University School of Law, has published The Performance of Gender as Reflected in American Evidence Rules: Language...

Timothy Stewart-Winter, Yale University, and Simon Stern, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, have published Picturing Same-Sex Marriage ...

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

andré douglas pond cummings, University of Iowa College of Law, University of Utah College of Law, and West Virginia University College of L...

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics, and Centre for the Study of European Contract La...

Elizabeth F. Cohen, Syracuse University, has published Jus Tempus in the Magna Carta: The Sovereignty of Time in Modern Politics and Citizen...

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...

Some recent publications in law and literature: Conter, Claude, Justitiabilität und Rechtmässigkeit : Verrechtlichungsprozesse von Literatur...

Gregory Scott Parks, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Danielle C. Heard, Stanford University School of Humanities & Sciences, ...

New York's Committee on Judicial Ethics says that Acting Supreme Court Judge Matthew D'Emic can play with his band after hours if po...

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