Law & Humanities Blog

Zvi H. Triger, The College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) School of Law, has published Law's Culture: Reflections on Menachem Ma...

Laura E. Little, Temple University School of Law, is publishing Just a Joke: Defamatory Humor and Incongruity's Promise , in volume 21 o...

From McGill University's IPLAI International Conference on Arts, Ideas, and the Baroque Hosted by the Institute for the Public Life...

I. Bennett Capers, Hofstra University School of Law, is publishing Crime, Legitimacy, Our Criminal Network, and the Wire in volume 8 of th...

Alafair S. Burke, Hofstra University School of Law, is publishing I Got the Shotgun: Reflections on The Wire, Prosecutors and Omar Little ....

From the New Scientist, April 30, 2010: The ten greatest science fiction detective novels . Among them: Philip Kerr's A Philosophical In...

Meet a new police detective, Scott Cowen of the Brick Township, NJ, police force. He's a character in James Patterson's newest nove...

Ernesto Hernandez Lopez, Chapman University School of Law, has published LA’s Taco Truck War: How Law Cooks Food Culture Contests as Chapman...

Peter Tiersma, Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), has published The Origins of Legal Language in the Oxford Handbook on Language and Law (L. S...

Susan A. Bandes, DePaul University College of Law, and Florida State University College of Law, has published And All the Pieces Matter: Th...

Philip A. Rubin, Duke University Law School, has published War of the Words: How Courts Can Use Dictionaries in Accordance with Textualist P...

The Center for Law, Society, and Culture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington will appoint up to three Jerome Hall Pos...

Barbara P. Billauer, Foundation for Law and Science Centers, Inc.; Institute of World Politics, has published Human Reproductive Cloning: Th...

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

Reminder The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will award up to eight $200 travel stipends to graduate stud...

Stephen R. Alton, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, has published The Game is Afoot!: The Significance of Gratuitous Transfers in the...

A new book on that very interesting new topic, neuroscience and magic. Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde have published Sleights of ...

Nicholas Dungey has published Franz Kafka and Michele Foucault: Writing as Resistance as a Western Political Science Association 2010 Annual...

Tom Donnelly, Harvard Law School, has published Our Forgotten Founders: Reconstruction, Public Education, and Constitutional Heroism , at 58...

Robin Paul Malloy, Syracuse University College of Law, has published Adam Smith in the Courts of the United States , at 56 Loyola Law Review...

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...