Law & Humanities Blog

Rhonda V. Magee, University of San Francisco Law School, has published Slavery as Immigration ? in volume 44 of the University of San Franci...

Now available from Wolters/Kluwer: Audio Files to accompany Thomas Morawetz's book Literature and the Law (originally published 2007). ...

Some new books of interest The Creation of the "IUS Commune": From "Casus" to "Regula" edited by John W. Ca...

Geoffrey P. Miller, New York University School of Law, has published Sovereignty and Conquest in the Hebrew Bible , as NYU School of Law, P...

Cynthia D. Bond, The John Marshall Law School, has published Documenting Law: Reality & Representation on Trial . Here is the abstract. ...

Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at Wisconsin Next two week biennial session will take place in June 2011; apply by 1/15/11. Com...

New books available or due out soon from Ashgate Publishing: Cathrine O. Frank, Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in Englan...

1st Global Conference Queer Sexualities 13th to 15th May 2011 Warsaw, Poland Call for Papers 20 years since the reclamation of ...

The Blog of Legal Times takes aim at Outlaw , Jimmy Smits' new legal drama on NBC. Pow! Smash! Bam! Generally, BLT doesn't like the...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education's Tweed Blog, professors who use popular culture in their teaching .

Cynthia D. Bond, The John Marshall Law School, has published Documenting Law: Reality & Representation on Trial . Here is the abstract. ...

Christiane Wilke, Carleton University, Department of Law, has published Reconsecrating the Temple of Justice: Invocations of Civilization an...

Recently published by Jonathan Burnside, God, Justice, and Society: Aspects of Law and Legality in the Bible (Oxford, 2010). Here is the ab...

From the New York Times, an article on the history and evolution of the crime film.

Nathan Murphy, University of Connecticut, has published Thème Et Varaations: Why the Visual Artists Rights Act Should Not Protect Works-in-P...

Matthew Sag, DePaul University College of Law, has published The Pre-History of Fair Use . Here is the abstract. This article reconsiders ...

Roy Kreitner, Harvard University Institute for Global Law and Policy, and Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law, has published Heroes...

Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law, has published The Politics of Historical Narratives: Comment on David Rabban’s Law...

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...