Law & Humanities Blog

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Detecting Doctrines: The Case Method and the Detective Story  in volume 23 ...

More from the Constitutional Law Blog on footnotes (this theme is really interesting): The first footnote to appear in a United States Su...

Courtesy of the Constitutional Law Blog , Justice Ginsburg and Justice Scalia tussle operatically in footnotes in Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U...

The web journal io9 discusses "science, science fiction, and the future " and here muses on time travelers or other sf tourists ...

CBS' legal drama The Good Wife , FX's Justified  (based on an Elmore Leonard character), and Sherlock: A Study in Pink (an updating...

The BBC1 series Silk will return to the airwaves next year. It stars Maxine Peake as barrister Martha Costello. Read an interview with wri...

Gerald J. Postema, University of North Carolina, Philosophy and Law, has published Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law...

The Harvard University Press Blog notes that Spike TV premiered a new reality series, Coal, March 30 at 9 p.m. (8 Central time). The firs...

From NPR: one story about three books that made it past Soviet censors  and another consoling us that literature and language will survive  ...

Some new titles of interest from Routledge (abstracts from the publisher's catalog ) Jacques de Ville, Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolut...

The blog Nightly Song has an interesting  post on Bob Dylan and Law, seeming to take its cue from the Bob Dylan and Law conference post her...

Fernando Estrada, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Facultadad de Finanzas, Gobierno y Relaciones Internacionales, and Boris Salazar, Unive...

G. Edward White, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Recovering the Legal History of the Confederacy as Virginia Public Law ...

UCLA's New Center for Psychoanalysis is hosting a conference devoted to the films of Pedro Almodovor, Mirrors of the Heart: The Films o...

The first season of Garrow's Law , the popular BBC series based on the life of eighteenth century barrister William Garrow, is now avail...

Kate Sutherland of Osgoode Law School has launched a new blog, law.arts.culture . Below, the welcome post. Welcome to law.arts.culture, a ...

Jos é Calvo Gonz á lez , Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Malaga, writes the blog Iurisdictio-lex Malacitana in French, Spani...

Fordham University is hosting a conference on Bob Dylan and the Law . Bob Dylan and the Law Fordham Law School April 4-5, 2011 Co-S...

Noted feminist critic H élè ne Cixous takes on the rhetoric of French president Nicolas Sarkozy in Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Pri...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The deadline for authors and publishers to enter a novel to win the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction is April 8. ...

Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, University of Georgia, has published The Use of the Term 'Boy' as Evidence of Race Discrimination: Appare...

Andrew Ellington 's essay in The Scientist on Erasmus Darwin's influence. Says Dr. Ellington, a chemistry prof at the University of...

To mark the release Matthew McConaughey's newest film, The Lincoln Lawyer , (based on a Michael Connelly novel), which debuted March 18,...

Peter Tiersman, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, is publishing The Rule of Text: Is it Possible to Govern Using (Only) Statutes? in the NYU ...

Jenny Diski reviews Stanley Fish's new book The Fugitive in Flight: Faith, Liberalism and Law in a Classic TV Show (University of Penn...

Reza Banakar, University of Westminster School of Law, has published Having One’s Cake and Eating It: The Paradox of Contextualisation in So...

Fun for a Friday: Supreme Court Haiku , a blog devoted to, well, the high court's pronouncements transformed into that elegant poetic fo...

Jamal Greene, Columbia University Law School, is publishing The Anticanon in the Harvard Law Review. Here is the abstract. Argument from ...

Boros, Claudine L. Maria-Julia, Justice Henry Fielding's Influence on Law and Literature (Xlibris Corp., 2010). The Cambridge Compani...

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Gina Barreca speculates on how Teen Mom 3 would play out if its contestants included, say, Tess Dur...

The flap over showrunner Brian True-May's remarks concerning the whiteness of the hit show Midsomer Murders shows no sign of abating;...

Rafael Palomino, Universidad Complutense/Facultad de Derecho, has published Legal Dimensions of Secularism: Challenges and Problems , given...

From the Executive Articles Editor of the West Virginia Law Review: The West Virginia Law Review seeks papers on the topic of non-violence...

I'm just back from the ALSCH (Association for the Study of Law, Society and Culture) Conference, this year hosted by the University of ...

Julie C. Suk, Cardozo School of Law, has published The Moral and Legal Consequences of Wife-Selling in The Mayor of Casterbridge in Gender, ...

Felice Batlan, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicag-Kent College of Law, has published The Gendered Lives of Legal Aid: Lay Lawyers, Soc...

Edwin S. Fruehwald has published When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View?: Postmodern Legal Thought and Behavioral Biology.  Here is the a...

An announcement for the Critical Legal Conference, to be held at Aberyswyth University, September 9-11, 2011.

Guy Numa has published On the Origins of Vertical Unbundling: The Case of the French Transportation Industry in the 19th Century in volume 2...

From Peter Schneck, Summer School Director : The Third International Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law will be held from thi...

New books of interest: Agamben, Giorgio, The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath (Trans. Adam Kotsko, Palo Alto: Stanford U...

The American Conference of Academic Deans and Phi Beta Kappa are co-sponsoring a conference for which the theme is "Are the Humanities...

Lance McMillian, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, has published Atticus Finch - Christian? in volume 77 of the Tennessee Law Review ...

The Scientist features Jim Fields' documentary about neurologist Robert White, who died last year. Mr. Fields notes that Dr. White migh...

Andrea Bianchi, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, has published Terrorism and Armed Conflict: Insights from a Law...

Not enough TV lawyers in your life? Then by all means check out the new CBS comedy Mad Love , which airs Mondays at 8:30 (7:30 Central time)...

Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities “Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum” 2012 AALS An...

Susan Haack, University of Miami School of Law and Department of Philosophy, has published Six Signs of Scientism (Seis Signos De Cientismo)...

George H. Taylor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Legal Interpretation: The Window of the Text as Transparent, Opaque,...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, is publishing Gray Lady Bowdler: The Continuing Saga of the Crimson Sp...