Law & Humanities Blog

From Josh Wodak at Australian National University: Honour Killing Across Culture and Time - EXTENDED Call for Papers (1 September dead...

Here's an interesting blog devoted to the intersection of art and the law: Art and Artifice . Some recent posts discuss art and politics...

Michelle Falkoff, University of Iowa College of Law, has published Lessons from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Using Fiction Workshop Teaching ...

A forthcoming study from two University of California, San Diego academics supports what I've thought for a long time: knowing whodunit ...

Some new scholarly books in law and humanities: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of Popular Cult...

Ariela J. Gross, University of Southern California Law School, has published All Born to Freedom? Comparing the Law and Politics of Race and...

Jean LeClair, Université de Montréal Faculty of Law, has published L'Avènement Du Constitutionnalisme En Occident: Fondements Philosophi...

Alex Schulman, Duke University, has published From Lear to Leviathan: On States of Nature and Social Contracts in Shakespeare's Politics...

John (Jay) Steinmetz, University of Oregon, has published 'They Had the Power and the Freedom': A Genealogy of Patriarchal Violence ...

Jeffrey Dudas, University of Connecticut Department of Political Science, has published 'A Madman Full of Paranoid Guile': The Myth ...

Tyler Curley, University of Southern California, has published Sounding the Alarm: Machiavelli, Locke and States of Emergency  as an APSA 20...

Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley Department of Political Science, has published Theosophy, Cultural Nationalism, and Home Ru...

Glenn Hughes has published Voegelin's Use of Metaphor  as an APSA 2011 Annual Meeting paper. Here is the abstract. This paper discusses...

A new online journal, the International Journal of Law, Language, & Discourse, and accompanying website, have launched here . Here'...

Welcome to a new website, Jus Literaria , created by students of law and literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, P...

Timothy Lukes has published The Politics of Beauty: Locke, Shaftesbury, and Burke  as an APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper. Here is the abstrac...

Kirsten Nussbaumer, Saint Louis University, has published Republican Election Reform and the American Montesquieu . Here is the abstract.  ...

John D. Haskell, University of Helsinki, University of London, and International University College of Turin, has published Hugo Grotius in ...

Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Legal Fictions Revisited . Here is the abstract.  There was a time ...

After taking emeritus status at Cooley Law School, Norman Otto Stockmeyer has apparently taken up the cudgels. He's proposing the killin...

Phil Rickman, of the BBC Blog WalesArts, examines the genre affectionately known as "Tartan Noir."  Says Mr. Rickman in part, Thi...

The Green Bag has released its latest Supreme Court Sluggers trading card: Antonin Scalia . He's a catcher (earlier releases featured C...

In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rachel Toor writes about the anxieties many people feel about their academic work, and that yes, it...

Dwight Garner writes about the uses of communications in today's New York in "The Words We Live By," a column in the August 3r...

From Laura Peterson, University of Melbourne, a Call for Papers for the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory, which will take place on...

The Art and Politics of Irony/ L’art et la politique de l’ironie 12-14 April 2012 ~ Montréal, QC An interdisciplinary conference hosted by...

Walter E. Block, Loyola University of New Orleans, College of Business, has published A Libertarian Theory of Blackmail. Here is the abstra...

More from NPR's Crime In the City series here.  Today's featured author: George Pelecanos  (Washington, DC). Authors discussed on p...

Richard H. McAdams, University of Chicago Law School, has published Vengance, Complicity and Criminal Law in Othello , in Shakespeare and th...

Check out the blog Droit et Cinema , a French site devoted to the subject of law and film. One post discusses the fascinating film Commis d...

Daniel Klerman, University of Southern California Law School, has published The Selection of Thirteenth-Century Disputes for Litigation , as...

Bruce Bower discusses the use of old trial records to study both cultural history and trial practice in this article from Science News. Dig...

From NPR: a discussion of the criminal fictional goings-on in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Rabia Belt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has published 'And then Comes Life': The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Disabili...

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...