Law & Humanities Blog

Michal Kuz, Louisiana State University Department of Political Science, has published 'High Noon' and Polish Republican Symbolism in...

Mark Godsey, University of Cincinnati College of Law, and Marie Alou have published She Blinded Me with Science: Wrongful Convictions and th...

T. T. Arvind, University of York, York Law School, and Lindsay James Stirton, University of Sheffield Law School, have published Explaining ...

Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Tapping Reeve, Nathan Dane, and James Kent: Three Fading Federalists o...

From Jose Calvo González, University of Malaga, the announcement of a conference at the Centro de Ciências Jurídicas, Universidade Federal d...

Laura Huey, University of Western Ontario, has published Crime behind the glass: Exploring the sublime in crime at the Vienna Kriminalmuseum...

Another lawyer inspired by Bob Dylan's work: Philadelphia's Tom Kline. More here .

A wonderful list of upcoming conferences, workshops, and other events  in the legal history area from Rechtgeschiedenis Blog .

John C. Kleefeld, University of Saskatchewan, College of Law, has published From Brouhahas to Brehon Laws: Poetic Impulse in the Law , at 4 ...

Alexander Fink, University of Leipzig, has published The Hanseatic League and the Concept of Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions ...

NPR has started a new series, Three Books, in which commentators share a personal story or discuss an issue of interest to them and then rec...

A "bloody good" (or a "bloody" good) story for Hallowe'en: the discovery of author Bram Stoker's journal on his...

Stephanie B. Turner, Yale Law School, is publishing  The Case of the Zia: Moving Beyond Intellectual Property Laws To Protect Cultural Righ...

Kenneth D. Chestek, Indiana University School of Law (Indianapolis) has published Competing Stories: A Case Study of the Role of Narrative R...

Michael Lobban has published Legal Theory and Judge-Made Law in England, 1850-1920 as Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper...

Edward Larson, Pepperdine University School of Law, has published Putting Buck v. Bell in Scientific and Historical Context in volume 39 of ...

Will Fitzgibbon, Australian National University College of Law, has published Visions of Justice: Shakespeare and Duch’s Proposed ‘Return to...

Do filmgoers care about a movie's historical accuracy? Does an audience take the plot of a docudrama "based on historical events...

Nathan M. Davis has published As Good As New: Conserving Artwork and the Destruction of Moral Rights   in volume 29 of the Cardozo Arts ...

John James Berry, Barry University School of Law, has published The Law, The Writer and The Work: How an Author's Interaction with the ...

Math professor and guest blogger Ed Aboufadel   explains the math behind an amazing client save on the show "Suits." Part 2 her...

Jeffrey M. Gaba, Southern Methodist School of Law, has published Copyrighting Shakespeare: Jacob Tonson, Eighteenth Century English Copyrigh...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason School of Law, has published The Judiciary Funded: The Generosity of David Dudley Field at 14 The Green Bag 2d...

As promised, a bibliography of Derrick Bell's books and articles, prepared by Kevin Baggett, Circulation Librarian at the LSU Law Center...

Charles M. Yablon, Cardozo School of Law, has published Madison's Full Faith and Credit Clause: A Historical Analysis at 33 Cardozo Law...

Charles J. Reid, Jr., University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) has published The Devil Comes to Kansas: A Story of Free Love and t...

Joel Heller has published  Faulkner’s Voting Rights Act: The Sound and Fury of Section Five . Here is the abstract. In its most recent e...

William A. Chamberlain, assistant dean, Law Career Strategy and Advancement, Northwestern University School of Law,  discusses how acting s...

Anat Rosenberg, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, has published Classical Contract Law, Past and Present . Here is ...

Teodor Sambrian has published Interpreting Law from the Roman Concept Interpretation to Modern Interpreting, Through the Adages of Juridical...

Commenting on the popularity of high profile trials, including those of Casey Anthony, Amanda Knox, and Conrad Murray, CNN offers a  list  o...

Robert C. Berring, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, has published The End of Scholarly Bibliography: Reconceptualizing Law...

Derrick Bell, the first tenured African-American professor at Harvard Law School, died Wedneday at the age of 80. According to this article ...

Ian Gallacher, Syracuse University College of Law, has published The Count's Dilemma, or, Harmony and Dissonance in Legal Language  in L...

Adam A. Perlin has published The Impeachment of Samuel Chase: Redefining Judicial Independence at 62 Rutgers Law Review 725 (2010). Here is...

Barry Cushman, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Headline Kidnappings and the Origins of the Lindbergh Law , in volume 55 ...

Coverage here from the Chronicle of Higher Education. More here at the Improbable Research website. Nobel Prize winners hand out the Ig-Nob...

Rob Atkinson Jr., Florida State University College of Law, has published Averting the Captain Vere 'Veer': Billy Budd as Melville...

Owen Fiss, Yale University Law School, has published The World We Live In , at 83 Temple Law Review 295-308 (Winter 2011). This Essay focus...

Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, has published   On Open Texture of Law as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Res...

Lea B. Vaughn, University of Washington School of Law, is publishing Feeling at Home: Law, Cognitive Science, and Narrative  in the McGeorge...

Wolfgang Nebodity, University of Vienna, has published Lord Cornbury and the Arcana Practice. Here is the abstract. In 1702 Queen Anne, th...

From Tucker Culbertson, Syracuse University College of Law Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Homosexuality ( http://w...

Sarah Lynnda Swan, Columbia University Law School, has published A New Tortious Interference with Contractual Relations: Gender and Erotic T...

Pierre Schlag and Sarah Krakoff of the University of Colorado School of Law have started the blog brazenandtenured--law politics nature and ...

Michael L. Perlin, New York Law School, has published Tangled Up in Law: The Jurisprudence of Bob Dylan. Here is the abstract. As a carefu...

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

From Susan Sage Heinzelman, University of Texas, Austin: Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) invites outstan...