Law & Humanities Blog

Herbert J. Hovenkamp, University of Iowa, College of Law, has published A Preface to Neoclassical Legal Thought . Here is the abstract. Mos...

Pravin Jeyaraj has published Philosophy of Love: Hegel, Christianity and Environmental Law . Here is the abstract. Much Christian opposi...

NPR is featuring the remarks of Scandinavian crime writers , who seem to have insights into last week's terrible attack on the governmen...

Katia Fach Gómez, University of Zaragoza, has published Crude: The Real Price of Oil: A Legal Analysis. Here is the abstract. Legal Analy...

Erika Abner, Postgraduate Medical Education Office, and Shelley M. Kierstaed, Osgoode Hall Law School, have published Text Work as Identity ...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education : Kudos to  Sue Fondrie, of the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, whose immortal (?) sentence " ...

Rakesh K. Anand, Syracuse University College of Law, has published Advancing the Cultural Study of the Lawyer: Developing Three Philosophica...

In the ABA Journal's current issue, 30 Lawyers Pick 30 Books Every Lawyer Should Read .

Kirsten K. Davis, Stetson University College of Law, has published Legal Forms As Rhetorical Transaction: Competency in the Context of Infor...

Laura I. Appleman, Willamette University College of Law, has published Oscar Wilde's Long Tail: Framing Sexual Identity in the Law  at 7...

Peter Murrell, University of Maryland Department of Economics, and Martin Schmidt, University of Maryland, College Park, have published The ...

Marc O. DeGirolami, St. John's University School of Law, has published Against Theories of Punishment: The Thought of Sir James Fitzjame...

Scandinavian crime fiction is suddenly in vogue--not just novels by Stieg Larsson ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ) and Peter Høeg ( Smil...

Helen A. Anderson, University of Washington School of Law, has published From the Thief in the Night to the Guest Who Stayed Too Long: The E...

Igor Stramignoni, London School of Economics, Law Department, has published Seizing Truths: Art, Politics, Law  at Art and Law 73 (O. Ben-D...

Mae C. Quinn, Washington University, St. Louis, School of Law, has published 'Feminizing' Courts: Lay Volunteers and the Integration...

Alan H. McGowan, The New School for Liberal Arts, Eugene Lang College, has published Franz Boas and the Progressive Spirit , in Jewish Curre...

Seán Patrick Donlan, University of Limerick, has published Remembering: Legal Hybridity and Legal History  in the Comparative Law Review, Ju...

Kristin A. Collins, Boston University School of Law, has published 'Petitions Without Number': Widows' Petitions and the Early N...

The July 2011 issue of the Texas Bar Journal features an article by Douglas E. Abrams, What Great Writers Can Teach Lawyers And Judges: Wisd...

From Panu Minkkinen, Professor of Legal Theory, School of Law, University of Leicester DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIPS IN LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY O...

From the Blog of Legal Times, news of a movie that takes a critical (as in uncomplimentary) look at trial lawyers. InJustice is set to debu...

Out on July 12: The Lincoln Lawyer , starring Marisa Tomei and Matthew McConaughey, based on the Michael Connelly novel. Also available now...

Some new books that may be of interest: Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400 (Palgrave M...

Special Issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Visual Semiotics of the Spaces We Inhabit Edited By Sarah Marus...

From Marett Leiboff, Associate Professor Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong The Legal Intersections Research Centre of the Facult...

Agatha Christie and the rest of the cosy mystery writers were onto something, but they got some of their inspiration from life. As Deborah B...

New from Oxford University Press: The Collected Essays of John Finnis, Volumes I-V Description For over forty years John Finnis has p...

From Andrew Majeske, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Save the Date/Call For Papers Third Biennial Literature and Law Conferen...

Damon Albarn has composed an opera about Dr. Dee, Elizabeth I's alchemist. The New York Times' Jon Pareles discusses the work, which...

A new book from Ashgate concentrates on music publishing and IP rights in Georgian England. Here's a description of the contents and an...

Bradly J. Condon, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), School of Law and Bond University - School of Law, has published   Langua...

Stephen C. Mouritsen has published The Dictionary Is Not a Fortress: Definitional Fallacies and a Corpus-Based Approach to Plain Meaning  at...

Mark Greenberg, UCLA School of Law and Department of Philosophy, has published Legislation as Communication? Legal Interpretation and the St...

Rupert Macey-Dare, St. Cross College, Oxford, has published True Crime - Guilty or Not Guilty - David Bain . Here is the abstract. This pap...

Timothy A. O. Endicott, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, has published Legal Interpretation  in the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of...

From Professor Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac College of Law Call for Participation: 15th Annual ASLCH Conference March 16-17, 2012 Texas ...

From Professor Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac College of Law Julien Mezey Dissertation Award The Association for the Study of Law, Culture a...

From Professor Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac College of Law The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) welcomes a...

From Robert L. Tsai, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: March 15, 2012 “Hate a...

José Calvo González, University of Málaga Faculty of Law, has published Quevedo en tela de juicio, o sea El Tribvnal de la ivsta vengança de...

Lawrence B. Solum, Georgetown Law School, has published The Interpretation-Construction Distinction  at 27 Constitutional Commentary 95 (201...

Menachem Mautner, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, has published Three Approaches to Law and Culture  at 96 Cornell Law Review ...

Maria Francisca Carneiro, Federal University of Paraná, and Maria Fernanda Loureiro have published Law, Literature and the Media . Here is t...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A new journal on Christopher Marlowe is making its debut . Indiana University/Purdue University, Fo...

After taking the rap for the decline of morality for so many decades, Charles Darwin now has a rap of his own. Scholar Baba Brinkman , desc...

Alessandra Stanley provides a look back at yet another series in Dick Wolf's venerable franchise, Law & Order: Criminal Intent , w...

Ayoyemi Lawal Arowolo, Babcock University School of Law and Security Studies, has published Copyright Law and the Recognition of 'Folklo...