Law & Humanities Blog

Monica Lopez Lerma, University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, has published  Law in High Heels: Performativity, Alterity, and Aesthetics, at ...

From Richard Weisberg The following Israeli editorial aptly summarizes both the excellent recent statement about Vichy by France'...

Ian Williams, Faculty of Laws, University College London, has published The Tudor Genesis of Edward Coke's Immemorial Common Law at ...

David Lyons, Boston University School of Law, has published Slavery and the Rule of Law in Early Virginia , as an APSA 2012 Annual Meetin...

Elizabeth Markovits, Mount Holyoke College, has published  Doddering Dotards and Brazen Ingrates: Archê and Finitude in Aristophanes , as a...

Lucy Ferriss discusses the exploits of forensic linguists in an essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education here.   More about what forensi...

Plagiarism Today explains how we have copyright law to thank for our familiarity with the conventions of vampire lore. More here . Thanks...

Simon Stern, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, has published  Speech and Property in David Simple at 79 ELH: English Literary History ...

Deborah Schander started the wiki "I've Got a Hit," devoted to using popular culture to teach legal issues. Check it out her...

Reflecting on the Aurora, Colorado theater shootings, Stephen Marche di scusses the link between violent acts and violent art. Check out h...

James R. Hackney, Jr., Northeastern University School of Law, has published Legal Intellectuals in Conversation: Reflections on the Const...

Andreas Rahmatian, University of Glasgow School of Law, has published  Literature as a Set of Norms: The Fictions or Legal Concepts of Prop...

The new issue  of the journal Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (Summer 2012) centers on law and gender. It includes many interesting art...

Martin H. Pritikin, Whittier Law School, is publishing Can Law and Literature Be Practical? The Crucible and the Federal Rules of Evidence...

Helen Irving, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published  When Women Were Aliens: The Neglected History of Derivative Marital Citiz...

Cynthia D. Bond, The John Marshall Law School (Chicago), is publishing "'We, the Judge(s)': The Legalized Subject and Narrati...

Do you like Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason novels? If so, and you've had a hard time finding them (many are out of print), then...

The Journal of Legal Education has announced the Top Ten Winners in its first Legal Fiction Contest. They are:  Steven Semeraro, Peter Bre...

Stephen P. Halbrook has published  Why Can’t We Be Like France? How the Right to Bear Arms Got Left Out of the Declaration of Rights and Ho...

Eileen Hunt Bottin, University of Notre Dame, is publishing Wollstonecraft in Europe: A Revisionist Reception History, 1792-1904 in the Hi...

Carolyn B. Ramsey, University of Colorado Law School, has published A Diva Defends Herself: Gender and Domestic Violence in an Early Twen...

Carol McCrehan Parker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Law, has published The Perfect Storm, the Perfect Culprit: How a Meta...

Desmond Manderson has published Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law--The Legacy of Modernism  with Routledge. Here is the description of th...

From Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac College The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) will hold its second annu...

Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Public Culture Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana University, Department of Communication an...

Northeast Regional Law and Society Meeting January 11-12, 2013 Amherst College Invitation and Call for Participation Yo...

From Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac College Call for Papers   16th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Hu...

From the Blog of Legal Times, coverage of the lawsuit brought by the DC-based Shakespeare Theatre Company  against its landlord, Lansburgh...

The Wall Street Journal's Jess Bravin blogs  here that Chief Justice Roberts's mention of the 1927 film "Wings" may poin...

Frank Deford traces the history of the modern Olympics to the work of William Penny Brookes, in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England, and not...

Andy Griffith, who starred in two legal tv shows, has died at the age of 86. Mr. Griffith, who played the gentle and wise Sheriff Andy Tay...

The June 2012 issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, "Heeding the Call of Justice: Humanistic Perspectives on Contemporary Affairs...

Balazs Fekete, Peter Pazmany Catholic University Faculty of Law & Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Legal Studies, has published The Dr...

Linghao Wang, Xiamen University Law School, and Lawrence B. Solum, Georgetown Law School, have published Confucian Virtue Jurisprudence , ...

Tara Helfman, Syracuse University College of Law, has published Nasty, Brutish and False: Rousseau's State in the International Order ...

Caroline Anne Forell, University of Oregon School of Law, has published Convicts, Thieves, Domestics, and Wives in Colonial Australia: The...

The Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker ventures into pop culture territory here , with a look at the uses of that underused res...

From Mary L. Dudziak, USC Gould School of Law: The deadline for submissions for the Paul Murphy Prize to support completion of a book...

Andre Janssen, University of Muenster Faculty of Law; Centre for European Private Law, and Reiner Schulze have published Legal Cultures a...

The New York Times focuses on crime writer Don Winslow   here . Mr. Winslow's newest novel, The Kings of Cool, hit the bookstores June ...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law & The Green Bag has published The Pastiche Prosecutor: A Speculative Introductio...

Guilherme Vasconcelos  Vilaça, European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences; University of Queensland, Scho...

Britta Van Beers, VU University Amsterdam Faculty of Law, has published T V Cannibalism, Body Worlds and Trade in Human Body Parts: Legal-...

Paul Gowder, University of Iowa College of Law & Stanford University Department of Political Science, has published Equality and the Ru...

Alessia Contu, University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, has published Whistle-Blowers’ Acts: Recasting Whistle-Blowing Through Readi...

François-Xavier Licari, University of Metz, Faculty of Law, has published  François Gény En Louisiane . Here is the abstract. L'oeu...

Brian Soucek, United States District Court, District of Connecticut, has published Not Representing Justice: Ellsworth Kelly's Abstra...

Jonathan Rose, Arizona State University College of Law, has published Medieval Estate Planning: The Wills and Testamentary Trials of Sir J...

Henry Hill, whose life was the subject of the book Wiseguy , which became the basis of the film Goodfellas , starring Ray Liotta, has died....

Samuel J. Levine, Touro Law Center, has published Symposium: Bob Dylan and the Law, Foreword , at 38 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1267 (2011)....