Law & Humanities Blog

Darien Shanske, University of California Hastings College of the Law, has published Thucydides and Lawfulness , in Thucydides--A Violent T...

José Calvo González, University of Malaga, has published  Lev N. Tolstói & E. H. Crosby:Sobre la geografía de la recepcíon literaria ...

Rinat Kitai-Sangero, Academic Center of Law & Buriness, Ramat Gan, Israel, has published Can Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment He...

Tom Clark, Victoria University, has published  Public Poeisis: Theorising Contemporary Civic Uses of Poetry in Australia and the United Sta...

The Gallagher Law Library notes that April is National Poetry Month and devotes a post on its blog to law and poetry here .

Kara W. Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law, has published  Adultery by Doctor: Artificial Insemination, 1890–1945 , at 87 Chica...

Law students are turning life into art at the University of Maryland School of Law.They are using the real life trial and subsequent appeal ...

Some newly published books of interest:   Andrews, Lori, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Priva...

Allison Anna Tait, Yale Law School, has published Unhappy Marriages and Unpaid Creditors: Chancery’s Enforcement of a Wife’s Right to Proper...

Tatiana Borisova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, has published The Legitimacy of the Bolshevik Order, 1917-1918: L...

Joe Rhodes muses on Bernie , a new film based on the murder of his aunt, who lived and died in the small town of Carthage, Texas. Mr. Rhodes...

Poetry for the season, from the New York Times.  What, no Ogden Nash? See here .

From the TLS , Marina Warner reviews Wes Williams' new book Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture (Oxford University Press...

Robert A. Kahn, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Who’s the Fascist? Uses of the Nazi Past at the Geert Wild...

From Peter Schneck, Chair of American Studies,  University of Osnabrück, Germany *Culture, Rights, Identity: Interfaces between the Huma...

From Maeva Marcus, Director, Institute for Constitutional History, New-York Historical Society and The George Washington University Law Scho...

A review of a biography , Love, Fiercely, of Edith and Isaac Newton Stokes, who gave generously and thought broadly, about life and the fut...

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...