Law & Humanities Blog

Linda L. Berger, Mercer University School of Law, has published The Lady, or the Tiger? A Field Guide to Metaphor and Narrative  at 50 Washb...

Iain T. Benson, University of the Free State, Faculty of Law, South Africa, and Miller, Thomson, has published Unexamined Faiths and the Pub...

Randall Fuller explains the effect of the Civil War on American lit in From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Lite...

Igor Stramignoni, London School of Economics, Law Department, has published Illusion and Betrayal: The City, the Poets, or an Ethics of Trut...

Hannibal Travis, Florida International University College of Law, has published On the Existence of National Identity Before ‘Imagined Comm...

Stephen Hilgartner, Cornell University Department of Science and Technology Studies, has published Staging High-Visibility Science: Media Or...

Julia J. A. Shaw, De Montfort University, has published A Review of Memory, Imagination, Justice: Intersections of Law and Literature by Dav...

Richard Ashby Wilson has published Humanity’s Histories: Evaluating the Historical Accounts of International Tribunals and Truth Commissions...

Hannibal Travis, Florida International University College of Law, has published Postmodern Censorship of Pacifist Content on Television and ...

Nicolas Hachez, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, has published Views on International Law and International Relations in Adam Sm...

Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing On the Relationship between Chapters One and Two of John Stuart Mill’...

Naomi Mezey, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Law's Visual Afterlife: Violence, Popular Culture, and Translation Theory ...

Does Homo jurisconsultus represent an evolutionary milestone? Check out Mark D. White's semi-tongue in cheek post at Psychology Today ,...

Helge Dedek, McGill University Faculty of Law, has published Of Rights Superstructural, Inchoate and Triangular: Some Remarks on the Role of...

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Suny University at Buffalo Law School, has published Joan’s Two Bodies: A Study in Political Anthropology  as Bu...

Thom Brooks, Newcastle University Law School, has published Hegel and the Unified Theory of Punishment.  Here is the abstract. Hegel's...

Lawrence Michael Friedman, New England School of Law, has published Law, Force, and Resistance to Disorder in Herman Melville's Billy Bu...

Joel A. Nichols, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) and James William McCarty III (Emory University) have published When the...

Patrick S. O'Donnell, Santa Barbara City College, has published Analogy & Metaphor: An Idiosyncratic Introduction . Here is the abst...

Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California Law School, has published Unlimited War and Social Change: Unpacking the Cold War's I...

Maria Guadalupe Mendoza has published The Thirteen Known Latina Litigants Before the Supreme Court of the United States . Here is the abstra...

José Calvo González, Professor of Law, University of Malaga, has published  Derecho y Literatura: Anatoliĭ Fedorovich Koni (1844-1927). Sobr...

Two articles on IP rights and Lucy Maud Montgomery's  Anne of Green Gables have crossed my desk recently. First is Andrea Slane, Univ...

Barkun, Michael, Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11 (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Cook...

Punchdrunk, the innovative (and interactive) theater company, has brought a new version of Macbeth  (that well-known Elizabethan murder fes...

The Zoopreme Court: Equal Justice Under Paws . Hat Tip to Steven Jamar of Howard University School of Law.

From the New York Times (subscription may be required): discussion of the legacy of the late director Sidney Lumet. Mr. Lumet directed a nu...

The Spring 2011 issue of William Mitchell On Law's features its graduate Tim Nolan ('89) , who practices with McGrann, Shea, Carni...

In the National Law Journal's March 28, 2011 issue: Leigh Jones, "In Redford's film, parallels to the present," at page 8...

Alan W. Norrie, University of Warwick School of Law, has published Inaugural Lecture 'The Scene and the Crime'  as Warwick School of...

Jean LeClair, University of Montreal Faculty of Law, has published Federalism, Socrates and Ulysses . Here is the abstract. Aboriginal sc...

Ronald Chester, New England School of Law, has published History's Orphan: Arthur Maclean and the Legal Education of Women , at 51 Ameri...

USA Network announces the launch this summer of a new legal drama, Suits (previously titled A Legal Mind). It will debut June 23 at 10 p.m...

Cornelis Hendrik Van Rhee, Maastricht University School of Law, has published The History of the 'Huissier De Justice' in the Low Co...

Allan Erbsen, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) School of Law, has published Constitutional Spaces  in volume 95 of the Minnesota Law Re...

Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School, has published The Honor of Private Law , as William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. ...

Season 3 of Drop Dead Diva returns this June. Lifetime is offering a season 2 recap here . While D3 is a much lighter series than shows su...

Edward J. Bander, Suffolk University Law School, has published The Hidden History of Essex Law School  (Trafford Publishing, 2010). Here is ...

Christine Kexel Chabot, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and Benjamin Remy Chabot, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago & National Bu...

Scott DeVito, Florida Coastal School of Law, has published Experimenting on Law Students: Why Imposing no Ethical Constraints on Educational...

De Somnath has published Right to Social Justice.  Here is the abstract. By social justice I mean the creation of a society which treats h...

Remember the new reality show Coal, which debuted March 30  on Spike TV? It has already had a real-world effect. Officials at the Mine Safet...

Keith Cunningham-Parmeter, Willamette University College of Law, has published Alien Language: Immigration Metaphors and the Jurisprudence o...

Anna P. Hemingway, Starla J. Williams, Jennifer M. Lear, all of Widener University School of Law and Ann Fruth, of Widener University School...

Helen Irving, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published Counterfactual Constitutionalism: The American Civil War and the Framing of...

Brian L. Frye, Hofstra University School of Law, has published The Fortas Film Festival  as Hofstra University Legal Studies Research Paper ...

Balazs Ratai, Carneades Consulting, has published Legal Semantic Frames - A Short Analysis of the Nature of Legal Understanding  in volume 2...

David B. Wilkins, Harvard Law School, has published The New Social Engineers in the Age of Obama: Black Corporate Lawyers and the Making of ...

Taisu Zhang, Yale University has published Property Rights in Land, Agricultural Capitalism, and the Relative Decline of Pre-Industrial Chin...

Donald J. Kochan, Chapman University School of Law, has published Thinking Like Thinkers: Is the Art and Discipline of an 'Attitude of S...