Law & Humanities Blog

Findlaw's Stephanie Rabiner examines the legal accuracy of this week's Good Wife episode here .

Ross E. Davies, George Masson University School of Law; The Green Bag, has published Leg, Culp, and the Evil Judge  at 2012 Green Bag Almana...

Alina Ng, Mississippi College School of Law, has published Literary Property and Copyright in volume 10 of Northwestern Journal of Technolo...

Seth Vannata, Morgan State University, has published  Justice Holmes at the Intersection of Philosophical and Legal Pragmatism . Here is the...

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In his column in the January 23rd New York Times, Stanley Fish suggests that parsing humanities texts using computers may be fun, but it c...

Great post on Bob Dylan and the law here at Nightly Song.

CBS has ordered pilots for two new projects, an updated version of Sherlock Holmes, set in New York City, and a new legal drama. According ...

Professor Steven Rawlings, an astrophysicist working on the Square Kilometer Array located at Oxford, died Wednesday night. His colleague, P...

Allegations are surfacing that celebrated poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) did not die of natural causes, but was murdered. Attorney Eduardo Co...

James E. Pfander and Daniel D. Birk, Northwestern University School of Law, have published  Article III and the Scottish Enlightenment , wh...

Edward Peter Stringham, Fayetteville State University School of Business and Economics, and Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason University School...

Jerome J. Nadelhaft, University of Maine, has published 'For Every Wrong There is a Remedy': Changing Law and Fleeing Wives in Ninet...

The Guardian offers its top ten fictional sleuths here . What? No Hercule Poirot? It gives one furiously to think.

Norman Otto Stockmeyer, Cooley Law School, has published Enhancing Caselaw Instruction with Online Limericks , in volume 19 of The Law Teach...

The new season of Justified begins January 17. Jeremy Egner brings us up to speed .

Marquette Law School student Gabriel Houghton muses about law and poetry at the Marquette University Law School Faculty blog here .

The Google Doodle today, January 7, 2012, honors "graveyard guru" Charles Addams, father of the Addams family, who came into livin...

She told the heir to a throne her voices led her to him, and to defend her country and her religion. She dressed as a man and scared the pan...

PBS reacts to a loss of federal funding after the debt ceiling crisis and the economic downturn generally by creating a more assertive ad c...

Season 2 of the series Downton Abbey premieres on January 8 on PBS. As you'll recall, the last episode of season 1 ended with news of ...

Coca doesn't just mean the plant from which cocaine is derived, and its many associations, or the name of a gifted comedienne, any longe...

What actually killed the birds, which inspired Daphne du Maurier to write that short story which Alfred Hitchcock eventually turned into a 1...

That irreverent group, the Capitol Steps , turns thirty , and has added some Newt Material to its repertoire. I'm referring, of course, ...

From the New York Times : a review of P.D. James' newest novel, Death at Pemberley. It's Darcy and Elizabeth six years on, dealing ...

By day they are ordinary citizens. By night they  take their inspiration from comic book superheroes and fight crime where they see it on p...

Renee Newman Knake, Michigan State University College of Law, has published Why the Law Needs Music: Revisiting NAACP v. Button Through the ...

Maureen Dowd considers Charles Dickens' thoughts on Christmas at the end of his life, noting that we will celebrate the bicentenary of ...

Steven W. Bender, Seattle University School of Law, is publishing  Gringo Alley  in the UC Davis Law Review. Here is the abstract. As a t...

Miloš Vec , Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, has published De-Juridifying ‘Balance of Power’ – A Principle in 19th Century International Lega...

Poor Santa. As if he didn't have enough problems, what with having to contend with all those jets in his airspace, and children who ques...

For the Sherlock Holmes fan who has nearly everything, perhaps a Holmes-themed stay at a London hotel? Check out this article at msnbc.com ...

A number of law-related television series have made various "top ten" critics' lists for the year, including Justified, Board...

José Calvo González, University of Malaga, has published "Justianiano en Latinoam érica.  Una crónica sobre Técnica legislativa en Der...

Reviewing the new Sherlock Holmes movie, the Huffington Post's David Germain notes that Professor Moriarty actually appeared in only two...

David B. Kopel, Denver University College of Law, is publishing How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution  in...

Faculty at Michigan State University Law School and Emory University School of Law announce a new website, LegalLanguageExplorer (in beta t...

The New York Times' Dave Itzkoff discusses incest on tv in three current HBO series, Boardwalk Empire , Game of Thrones , and Bored To...

Fabio Espitia Garzon, Universidad Externado de Colombia, has published Dictadura,'Estado De Sitio' Y Provocatio Ad Populum En La Obr...

David Schneiderman, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Haldane Unrevealed , in volume 57 of the McGill Law Journal (2012)....

Mariateresa Cellurale, Universidad Externado de Colombia, has published Romani Y Gothi En Italia. La Comunión De Derecho En La República Uni...

José Calvo González, University of Malaga School of Law, has published  Odia el delito, y compadece al delincuente». Memoria de Correcciona...

Alex Chu Kwong Chan and Angus Young, Department of Accountancy, Hang Seng Management College; School of International Law, Southwest Univers...

Benjamin West Janke, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, and François-Xavier Licari, University of Metz Faculty of Law have ...

James C. Oldham, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing Only Eleven Shillings: Abusing Public Justice in England in the Late Eighte...

Arizona Attorney has announced its Arts Competition for 2012.  More here from the magazine .

Andreas Philippopoulous-Mihalopoulos, University of Westminster, the Westminster International Law and Theory Centre, has published Critical...

Reading over the holidays? Bailey, Quentin, Wordsworth's Vagrants: Police, Prisons, and Poetry in the 1790s  (Ashgate Publishing Compa...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law & The Green Bag, and Cattleya M. Concepcion, The Green Bag, have published Fore-S...

Over the past few months an unidentified someone has left ten paper miniatures in various cultural sites and libraries around Edinburgh to s...