Law & Humanities Blog

The February 27, 2013 "Room For Debate" section of the New York Times is devoted to the issue of "The Constitution's Imm...

From the ABA Journal , a story about a judge who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. But this jurist, South Hackensack Municipal Court Judge...

Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott discuss whether Hollywood has any responsibility to history in its storytelling. Here's the article in...

José Calvo González, School of Law, University of Malaga, has published El Delincuente Honrado (1773) de Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos ,  ...

The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section announces the winners of its Twitter Brief competition for 2012. The winner for Best Haiku Twitte...

The state of Mississippi finally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the U.S., in 1995. But the paperwork didn...

The current issue (February 8, 2013--available in digital version only) of Newsweek has several articles on the identification of Richard I...

From CNN : Scientists working on the bones found in a parking lot ("car park" in British parlance), the site of an archaelogical ...

The used book site abebooks.com features a post about fictional detectives here . Blogger Beth Carswell notes what the Guardian calls autho...

NPR's Tanya Ballard Brown brings us the story of legal civility set to music here . In December of 2012, some members of the New York I...

The BBC and other media report that Richard III's bones seem to have been discovered, six centuries after he died after the battle at B...

Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, has published Could the Crown Credibly Commit to Respecting its Charters? England,...

Jonas-Sebastien Beaudry, University of Oxford, has published Of Apes and Men as Oxford Student Legal Studies Paper No. 01/2013. Here is th...

The BBC crime drama " Ripper Street " is returning for a season season next year. More here from The Guardian. The show airs on ...

Jessica M. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, is publishing Persuasive Visions: Film and Memory in Law, Culture, and the Humanities. H...

....What will they think of next? Jose Calvo Gonzalez points out  that John Rawls has made it to Broadway--well, the Oxford stage, anyway. ...

Mark Anthony Frassetto, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Firearms and Weapons Legislation up to the Early 20th Century. He...

Atiba R. Ellis, West Virginia University College of Law, has published Polley v. Ratcliff: A New Way to Address an Original Sin? in volume...

Tanzina Vega discusses the impact of the ABC drama " Scandal " in an article in the January 20th issue of the New York Times. Lin...

Tulane Law School is offering a summer abroad program in International Law, Cultural Heritage & the Arts in Siena, Italy, from June 2 t...

Our friend José Calvo González has published a new book, El Escudo de Perseo: La Cultura Literaria del Derecho (Granada, 2012). He...

Linda Berger, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law, is publishing Metaphor in Law as Poetic and Propositional Language in The E...

Currently at the Library of Congress, an exhibit entitled " The Civil War In America ." The New York Times reviews it here.

From the Dirksen Congressional Center: Serious Consequences of Congress as a Target For Humorists.

Love Star Trek (particularly the reboot of the franchise)? Love your smart phone? Now you can indulge your affection for both with a Star...

Jennifer L. Archer, Archer Law Corporation, has published Sovereignty as a Social Construct: A Literature Review of Indigenous Peoples’ Per...

Susan Elizabeth Farran, Northumbria University & University of the South Pacific, has published The ‘Unnatural’ Legal Framing of Tradi...

A new publication of interest: Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850 , Edited by David Lemmings, University of A...

Peter Nicolas, University of Washington School of Law, and Mike Strong (no affiliation given), have published The Geography of Love: Same-...

Tracy A. Thomas, University of Akron School of Law, has published Misappropriating Women's History in the Law and Politics of Abortion...

John Blake of CNN reviews (and critiques) Steven Spielberg's new film "Lincoln," and suggests that the Spielberg Lincoln is n...

Lisa Kern Griffin, Duke University School of Law, has published Narrative, Truth, & Trial, at 101 Georgetown Law Journal 281 (2012). ...

Two reviews of newly released law-related films from The Hollywood Reporter:  Gangster Squad  and Promised Land . Meanwhile, on Capitol H...

Call for Papers and Participation: American Society For Legal History The 2013 meeting of the American Society for Legal History will...

News of a Law and Literature Conference, forthcoming, July 2013 “Law and Literature: experiences from my country” Law and Liter...

What else can you do with a law degree? Check out Comedians at Law , the website of a bunch of recovering lawyers, licensed to make you lau...

David T. Hardy has published Dred Scott, John San(d)Ford, and the Case for Collusion. Here is the abstract. Dred Scott profoundly chang...

The November 30th quiz at Classical-music.com, the website of BBC Music magazine, offers up some musical mystery fun. Can you identify the...

Forthcoming from Walter de Gruyter: Visualizing Law and Authority: Essays on Legal Aesthetics (Lief Dahlberg ed.; 2012) (Law and Literatu...

Norman P. Ho, Netherlands China Law Centre; Morrison & Foerster (Hong Kong) is publishing Confucian Jurisprudence in Practice: Pre-Tang...

Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law, is publishing Normative Jurisprudence and Legal Realism in volume 63 of the Un...

The new issue of Law and Humanities is available. Law and Humanities Volume 6 .  Number 2 . 2012 Hart Publishing is very plea...

Cynthia Bond, John Marshall Law School, has published "We, the Judges": The Legalized Subject and Narratives of Adjudication in R...

Gordon A. Christenson, University of Cincinnati College of Law, has published ' Liberty of the Exercise of Religion' in the Peace ...

Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodogies and Sovereign Formations Edited by Ruth Buchanan, Stewart Motha, and Sundhya Pahuja Publish...

From Jose Calvo Gonzalez, news of another interesting conference: this one beginning today in Lisbon and running through the 5th of Decembe...

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...