Law & Humanities Blog

When I see a blog like Overthinking It, I know I'm not alone. Excellent. Courtesy of Lowering the Bar , I bring you Overthinking It...

David Ray Papke, Marquette Law School, has published  Muted Message: Capital Punishment in the Hollywood Cinema as Marquette Law School Leg...

A new book from Eric Heinze , Queen Mary, University of London. Here is the description from the publisher's website. The Concept...

New from Oxford University Press: Hilary M. Schor, Curious Subjects:  Women and the Trials of Realism (December, 2012). $65.00. ...

Alison L. LaCrois, University of Chicago Law School, has published The Lawyer's Library in the Early American Republic  in Subversion a...

Frank Rudy Cooper, Suffolk University Law School, has published  Hyper-Incarceration as a Multidimensional Attack: Replying to Angela Harr...

The Hollywood Reporter brings us its choices for the top 10 legal disclaimers offered up by the movies. Ok, they're not for real. Well,...

 From Yale Law School, an announcement of a forthcoming Conference on Critical Race Theory: Critical Race Theory: From the Acade...

José Calvo Gonzalez, University of Malaga Faculty of Law, sends word of a conference on Shakespeare and Montaigne to be held at the  Univ...

Salvatore Casabona has published  The Law of Macau and its Language: A Glance at the Real 'Masters of the Law' at 4 Tsinghua China...

Greta Olson, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, has published Law is not Turgid and Literature not Soft and Fleshy: Gendering and Heteronorm...

Ravulapati Madhavi, The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, has published  Merciless Thoughts on Mercy Killing: A Critique, at 2 The IU...

David Schorr, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, has published  The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justic...

Xing Li, Stanford Univesrity Department of Economics, Megan MacGarvie, Boston University Department of Finance & Economics and National...

Nahel N. Asfour, University of Vienna Faculty of Law, has published  Law and Literature: Jewish and Christian Models at 6 Pólemos: Journa...

CNN points out the link between the developing real-world David Petraeus affair and the ABC television show  Scandal,   which stars Kerry ...

Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of History, has published  Disti...

Cheryl B. Preston, Brigham Young University Law School, and Eli McCann have published  Lewellyn Slept Here: A Short History of Sticky Contr...

The Guardian's Film Blog discusses fairy tale films, their popularity, and their meaning here . Compare with this 2011 discussion of f...

Google has devoted a Google Doodle to you! The Christian Science Monitor discusses the five best Bram Stoker novel film adaptations here ...

Honni Van Rijswijk, University of Technology Sydney, has published  Neighbourly Injuries: Proximity in Tort Law and Virginia Woolf’s Theory...

From Oxford University Press: Oxford University Press is thrilled to announce the recent publication of  Family Money: Property, Rac...

The New York Times  brings us  the captain of H.M.S. Bounty's decision to leave port in anticipation of an oncoming hurricane, in retro...

November 2: Science Friday features a discussion of a new production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People,  starring Richard Thomas...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, has published  The Popular Prosecutor: Mr. District Attorney and the ...

Gilbert Kaplan interviews Justice Antonin Scalia for New York's WQXR. Read and listen to "The Violin Dreams of Supreme Court Justi...

Martine Kaluszynski, University of Grenoble, Institute of Political Studies Grenoble, has published The Changing Face of Law after the Eve...

The New York Times' Charles Isherwood reviews "A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder," now playing at the Hartford Stag...

Several extremely interesting articles from the Guardian: Lawrence Scott discusses "Murder on the Dance Floor," (images of death...

Péter Cserne, University of Hull, has published Between 'Metaphysics of the Stone Age' and the 'Brave New World': H.L.A. Ha...

New from Routledge The Concept of Injustice By Eric Heinze Published October 24th 2012 by Routledge--218 pages The Concept of Injus...

Robert F. Blomquist, Valparaiso University Law School, has published Early American Judicial Pragmatism, 1793-1949 as Valparaiso Universit...

Linda Ross Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law, has published Suffering and Judging in The Princess and the Pea , at 30 Quinnipiac ...

Bloomberg Law has launched a new video series, Stealth Lawyers, which features attorneys who have found new and different ways to use their...

Jessica M. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published  Images in/of Law , at 57 New York Law School Law Review 171 (2012/13). Her...

Christoph Kletzer, King's College London School of Law, has published  Primitive Law . Here is the abstract. This paper discusses th...

Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law, has published  American Indian Legal Scholarship and the Courts as MSU L...

Mary Szto, Hamline University School of Law, has published  Contract in My Soup: Chinese Contract Formation and Ritual Eating and Drunkenne...

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 ...