Law & Humanities Blog

From the University of Pennsylvania Press: In the Shadow of the Gallows ( http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14973.html ) reveals how...

The August 22nd Diane Rehm show features a segmen t about Scott Turow's novel Presumed Innocent. Panelists Leslie Maitland, Barry Cobu...

Robyn Hagan Cain muses on the intersection of music and law for Findlaw here.  Among her examples: Eric Clapton's "I Shot the She...

Peter Robson, University of Strathcylde, Glasgow, School of Law, and Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, have published Law and ...

Harry Harrison, the science fiction novelist, has died. He was the author of numerous classics, including "Make Room! Make Room!"...

The Atlanticwire brings word of a new debate--the fight over Jane Austen's relevance to conservatives. Should they be claiming her as a...

From M. Paola Mittica, Coordinator of the Italian Society for Law and Literature, news of a special issue of No Foundations . This issue,...

Women's Legal History: A Global Perspective - Symposium Introduction: Making History will be available in volume 87 of the Chicago-Kent...

Victoria F. Nourse, Georgetown University Law Center, has published  Buck v. Bell : A Constitutional Tragedy from a Lost World at 39 Pepper...

Desmond Manderson, ANU College of Law; ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences; McGill University Faculty of Law, has published  Modernis...

BBC America launches its first scripted show, Copper , on August 19th. The show, set in New York's Five Points in 1863,features a polic...

The Chandler estate has asked John Banville to bring Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe back in a new novel. Mr. Banville will be using ...

Justice Ginsburg on music and law, here from FindLaw. More  here from the Wall Street Journal.

NOW PUBLISHED Law and Justice on the Small Screen Edited by Peter Robson and Jessica Silbey 'Law and Justice on the Small S...

James Daily and Ryan Davidson have turned their blog, Law and the Multiverse , into a book, The Law of Superheroes ( Gotham Books,  a divis...

CBS is launching a new Sherlock Holmes series, Elementary , on September 27 at 10 p.m. (9 Central time). The newest incarnation of Holmes ...

Susan Sage Heinzelman, Director, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin, tells us about this new public...

K. C. Morrison, Timothy Fair, and Aaron Rollins, all of Mississippi State University, have published  Expanding the Myth of the American Re...

Eileen Hunt Botting, University of Notre Dame, is publishing Ascending the Rostrum: Hannah Mather Crocker and Women's Political Oratory...

Call for Papers – Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law The first conference on Critical Approaches to International Crim...

Now available: In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature by Kristin Kalsem Available from Ohio State Universi...

From James Devitt, New York University: NYU Launches History of Undercover Reporting Database New York University has launched a datab...

The ABA Journal has posted its August 2012 Law In Popular Culture feature: this year it focuses on the theater's top twelve courtroom ...

Aaron Sorkin's HBO cast/cats.  Is that a feliny?

SpearIt, Saint Louis University School of Law, has published Why Obama is Black: Language, Law and Structures of Power at 1 Colum. J. Race...

From Keith Harmon, information on the Southern Humanities Council Conference Call for Papers Southern Humanities Council Conference Jan...

Thomas K. Clancy, West Virgina University College of Law; University of Mississippi School of Law, has published The Importance of James ...

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...