Law & Humanities Blog

From Bennett Capers, Chair, AALS & Humanities Section Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities “Law and Music” 2014 A...

From the Washington Post, a survey of gays and lesbians in pop culture.

Karen Crawley, Griffith Law School, and Honni Van Rijswijk, University of Technology, Sydney, have published Justice in the Gutter: Represe...

Karthik Suresh, National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University, has published 'Apaharan' and the Making of a C...

Sean Patrick Donlan, University of Limerick, is publishing Entangled Up in Red, White, and Blue: Spanish West Florida and the American Te...

Beth Burkstrand-Reid, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, College of Law, has published Dirty Harry Meets Dirty Diapers: Masculinities, At-Hom...

Greta Olson, Justus-Liebig-Univeristy Giessen, is publishing Intersections of Gender and Legal Culture in Two Women Judge Shows: Judge Judy...

Jonathan J. Koehler, Northwestern University School of Law, is publishing Linguistic Confusion in Court: Evidence from the Forensic Scien...

Christopher L. Blakesley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law, is publishing Law, Language, Crime, and Culture: The Value and R...

Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, has published Law as an Academic Discipline . Here is the abstract. Is law a...

Huang Qifan, mayor of the Chinese city of Chongquig, says judges should look to Hollywood films for assistance in making judicial determi...

Google's Scholar Blog offers up some links to some entertainingly written court cases, including Rimes v. Curb Records, "writte...

A day after the Catholic Church welcomed Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis,  t he Hollywood Reporter offers us this look at famous f...

Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest Univesrity School of Law, has published Let's Skill All the Lawyers: Shakespearean Lessons on the Nat...

Brian Christopher Jones sends me this post from the blog Misleading Law of the Week . It discusses the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) A...

Renee Lettow Lerner, George Washington University Law School, has published Thomas Nast's Crusading Legal Cartoons , at 2011 Green Ba...

From the Yale Law Library: an exhibit of the work of  Joseph Hémard (1880-1961), who managed to turn out a lot of interesting stuff, inclu...

John Denvir, University of San Francisco School of Law, has published Watching Television Can Change the World: "The Wire" as Cri...

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). ...