Law & Humanities Blog

Jason Gillmer, Gonzaga University School of Law, has published Crimes of Passion: The Regulation of Interracial Sex in Washington, 1855-1950...

Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law, has published Parents, Children and Property in the Late Eighteent...

Timothy Sandefur, Pacific Legal Foundation, has published Love and Solipsism: Law and Arbitrary Rule in Classical Drama What distinguishe...

Dean Ken Randall and the School of Law at The University of Alabama are pleased to announce a new book series – Law, Knowledge, and Imagin...

Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School Los Angeles, has published Rape Trauma, the State, and the Art of Tracey Emin  in volume 100 of the Cali...

The American Society for Legal History announces the Paul Murphy Prize to support the completion of a book on the history of civil liberties...

George Orwell's 1984 may be returning to the screen.  Brian Grazer and Ron Howard at Imagine Entertainment were looking into adapting ...

Linda Ross Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law, has published Love, Law and Sacrifice in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' . Here is th...

Two law-related shows won awards at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards, held March 20th in London. The acclaimed crime drama Lut...

Zahr Said, University of Washington School of Law, has published Incorporating Literary Methods and Texts in the Teaching of Tort Law  at 3 ...

Knut Fournier has published Torture Justification in ‘24’: Aesthetics of the Bush Administration In the context of the War on Terror, f...

Lisa T. Alexander, University of Wisconsin Law School, has published Hip-Hop and Housing: Revisiting Culture, Urban Space, Power, and Law ,...

Ross E.Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, Craig D. Rust, George Mason University School of Law Alumni, and Adam A...

From Christopher Brown, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Maryland, news of an exciting upcoming conference at the Unive...

Marc Roark of the Literary Table on using Harry Potter in the Law School curriculum .

The annual conference of ASLCH (the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanitie s) is going on this weekend at Texas Wesleya...

Jedidiah Kroncke, Harvard Law School, has published An Early Tragedy of Comparative Constitutionalism: Frank Goodnow & the Chinese Repub...

Nancy J.White, Central Michigan University, has published Harry Potter and the Denial of Due Process . Here is the abstract. This paper i...

The current issue of the California Law Review is a companion to the Ninth Circuit's Symposium  on Excavating and Integrating Law and t...

The Warburg Institute is sponsoring a conference on the Iconography of Justice on May 7, 2012. Speakers include Dennis Curtis, Dame Hazel G...

Attorney Alan L. Rupe discusses what movies have taught him about how to present a case in What I Learned at the Movies.  Among the films he...

Robert Krulwich ponders law, journalism, ethics, and the three little pigs in this essay  for National Public Radio. I would say he hams up ...

USA Network's law-related series Fairly Legal returns Friday, March 16th at 9 p.m., 8 p.m. Central time. Sarah Shahi stars as Kate Rei...

Katherine Jacob, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has published Divine Diversion: Divine Retribution as Dispute Resolution and...

Timothy Sandefur, Pacific Legal Foundation, has published Love and Solipsism: Law and Arbitrary Rule in Classical Drama . Here is the abstra...

John Denvir, University of San Francisco, School of Law, has published Guile is Good: the Lawyer as Trickster . Here is the abstract. Wha...

Google celebrates with a Rossini "leap frog doodle!" Rossini makes so many allusions to law in his operas, beginning with his fir...

From Smithsonian Magazine : Ron Rosenbaum on filmmaker Errol Morris's career as a private eye.

In case you have been waiting for it, here is a genealogy of Lord of the Rings characters, compiled by Emil Johannson. More here at CNN...

The Folger Shakespeare Library has mounted a new exhibition devoted to women writers, 1500-1700. "Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of...

From the New York Times, two appraisals, by Douglas Martin  and Charles McGrath , of the career and contributions of Barney Rosset (1922-201...

From Bloomberg Law : the 10 Greatest Movie Lines (US and British films only). Comments from Legal Blog Watch here . Which are your favo(u)ri...

The New York Times explains how the University of California, Berkeley, lost, and the Huntingdon Library gained, a wonderful piece of art b...

Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University School of Law, is publishing Chasing Ghosts: On Writing Cultural Histories of Tax Law , forthcoming in ...

From the Times Literary Supplement, a review of Ian Donaldson's new biography of Ben Jonson. Brian Vickers looks at this interesting po...

Actor Robert Downey Jr. is undertaking a reboot of the Perry Mason franchise with the assistance of lawyer turned writer Marc Guggenheim (...

On sports and the law: Khan, Abraham I., Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist Athlete (University Press...

Anne Goldstein, Western New England University School of Law, has published Law and Literature: Representing Lesbians  at 1 Texas Journal of...

Joyce A. McCray Pearson, University of Kansas School of Law, has published The Good, Bad, or Ugly: Women in Law and Literature Text  (sic)in...

Las Vegas offers a museum you can't resist. More here  from the New York Times.

HBO is showing a documentary for Valentine's Day that truly marks the occasion: "The Loving Story" tells the drama, and the l...

F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Barry University School of Law & Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, has published Clones and the Coase T...

Excellent, excellent post from Rechtgeschiedenisblog Blog on Dickens and law, listing online resources and recent posts and giving some ana...

Patricia Cohen explains how the famous portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, which has hung in the Lincoln Presdential Library and Museum in Spr...

Stephen Marche reviews a new production of The Merchant of Venice at the Globe Theater (London) and discusses Shylock's eternal meanin...

Found recently while searching the net: Michael J. Watkins, Forensics in the Media; Have attorneys reacted to the growing popularity of fo...

Michael Ruse writes about his favorite Dickens novels here .  He lists The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Our Mutual F...

Proceedings for the recent Visualizing Law in the Digital Age Symposium are available here .

Peter Mazzacano, Osgoode Hall School, York University, has published Puritanism, Godliness, and Political Development in Boston and the Gene...

James Polchin on the photographer Weegee  (Arthur Fellig) and his images of crime, currently on view in a retrospective, Weegee: Murder Is ...