Law & Humanities Blog

The Hollywood Reporter offers up a list of some of the best (US) election movies , but check out the comments! Many readers think there are...

Jan M. Smits, Maastrict University Faculty of Law, Maastricht European Private Law Institute, University of Helsinki, Center of Excellence ...

Peter Beaumont wonders whether the television series  "Homeland" oversteps the bounds in its efforts to present entertaining tel...

New from Hart Publishing, a book on The Art of Justice NOW PUBLISHED The Art of Justice The Judge's Perspective Ru...

The New York Times discusses Dick Wolf's new series "Chicago Fire." Here's a link .

Susan Corbett, Victoria University of Wellington, has published  Māori Cultural Heritage and Copyright Law: A Balancing Exercise at 6 New ...

Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published  Does Golyadkin Really Have a Double? Dostoevsky Debunks the Mental Capacity...

From the Guardian: a podcast  discussing Agatha Christie's views on her own work, the work of two new crime writers, Attica Locke and T...

From Princeton University: Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) invites outstanding faculty members, indep...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, an examination of the fascination with vampire lit.  For more about the subject see the selected ...

Announcement of an upcoming conference: I COLÓQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE DIREITO E LITERATURA Programação DIA 3 DE OUTUBRO DE ...

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

Robert L. Tsai, American University College of Law, has published  'Simple' Takes on the Supreme Court as American University WCL ...

Jonathan A. Watson has published  Tolkien and Law . Here is the abstract. The relationship between themes found in Aquinas's "...

From the Guardian, news that the BBC plans yet another crime drama, this time one inspired by Jack the Ripper. Ripper Street (for BBC One) ...

New in the Ashgate catalog: Joseph S. Jenkins, Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace as Con...

Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin Law School, has published The House that Built Holmes at 30 Law & History Review 661 (2012). Here...

Jeffrey Miller, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, has published  The Magical Legalism of Marcel Aymé: Charming Rogues and the S...

George Takei (Star Trek: TOS)  stars in a new musical , Allegiance , at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. The musical  "is an epic...

Aaron Perzanowski, Wayne State University Law School; Notre Dame Law School, has published Intellectual Property Norms in the Tattoo Indust...

Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has published 'Creating New Categories': Anglo-American Radical Feminism's C...

More on cartoon and comic law today, this time via Findlaw . Bob Kohn of RoyaltyShare was allowed to file an amicus brief in the Justice ...

Kieran Mark Tranter, Griffith University Law School, has published The Speculative Jurisdiction: The Science Fictionality of Law and Techno...

Batton Lash's new book featuring Supernatural Law , The Monsters Meet at Court Street, is out: it features attorneys Alanna Lash and J...

Google's home page for today, September 7, 2012, features an adorable tribute to Star Trek: The Original Series (ST:TOS), which debut...

José Calvo González, Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Malaga, sends word of a new publication, and provides the Table of Con...

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...