Law & Humanities Blog

Estelle Derclaye, University of Nottingham School of Law, is publishing What Can Intellectual Property Law Learn from Happiness Research? ...

Mark Weiner of Rutgers Law School (Newark) sent me a link to a thread on his fascinating blog, Worlds of Law . The thread discusses connec...

Miriam Aziz, Visiting Scholar at Cardozo Law School, has published Lost For Words: Embodying Law Through Tanztheater,  7 Law and Humanities...

A lovely Bloomsday post from our friend Jose Calvo Gonzalez of the University of Malaga at his blog, Iurisdictio-Lex Malacitana. Lots of e...

It's Bloomsday! More here from the James Joyce Centre, here from the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Selected Joyce and the Law Biblio...

According to the "Tuned In" column in the June 24, 2013 issue of Time , U.S. popular culture has been predicting government surve...

Courtesy of Gwynne Watkins , who explains the Mad Men's  teen's possible problems after catching her dad with a neighbor.  From New...

Evgeny Finkel, George Washington University Department of Political Science, Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for t...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, has published Learned Hand Sings, Part One: Liner Notes for 'Song...

Jeremy Patrick, University of Southern Queensland School of Law, has published The Curious Persistence of Blasphemy: Canada and Beyond. It...

Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder, both of the University of California, Davis, School of Law, are publishing Copyright's Cultural Tur...

Charles Richard DiSalvo, West Virginia University College of Law, is publishing M. K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma ...

Kristie Dotson, Michigan State University Department of Philosophy, has published Knowing in Space: Three Lessons from Black Women's So...

Kevin Toh, San Francisco State University, is publiishing Legal Relativism and Jus Gentium in the APA Newsletter. Here is the abstract. ...

Lorin Geitner, Claremont Graduate University, has published Social Architecture and the Law: Law, Through the Lens of Religion . Here is th...

Jennifer Schweppe, University of Limerick, and John E. Stannard, Queen's University Belfast, School of Law, have published What is so ‘...

Joseph E. David, Oxford University Faculty of Oriental Studies; Wolfson College, has published Dwelling within the Law: Nahmanides’ Legal T...

The ABA Journal highlights the work of Nathaniel Burney, author of the Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law. Mr. Burney practices criminal la...

Among the shows that Amazon has picked up as an "Amazon Original" to air on Amazon Instant Video is Garry Trudeau's Alpha Hou...

Reminder from Desmond Manderson: Abstracts for single papers or panel proposals for this year's Law, Literature, and the Humanities Ass...

Legal dramas are perennially popular, and as usual, the networks are already rolling them out for the 2013 season. On Tuesday, May 29, at 1...

From Yxta Murray at Loyola Los Angeles Law School, a call for papers for a conference on Law, Peace, and Violence: Jurisprudence and the Po...

Ah, the uses of trademark law! Check out Vulcan Ale, now for sale in Vulcan, Alberta, in honor of the town's centennial.  If you'd ...

Justin Richland, University of Chicago, is publishing Jurisdiction: Grounding Law in Language in the Annual Review of Anthropology. Here i...

Ronald K. L. Collins, University of Washington School of Law, has published Theodore Schroeder and the Pre-1919 Defenses of Free Speech: Th...

From Daniela Carpi, Professor of Literature, University of Verona, writing for AIDEL,  Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura. Her...

From an ABA news release : (The information below is excerpted from the release) The American Bar Association announced today its select...

To take a break from grading, check out Anatasia Salter's post "Researching In Public On Tumblr."  Professor Salter suggests ...

Louis J. Sirico, Jr., Villanova University School of Law, has published Benjamin Franklin, Prayer, and the Constitutional Convention: Hist...

Amy Salyzyn, Yale University Law School, is publishing John Rambo v. Atticus Finch: Gender, Diversity and the Civility Movement in volume...

Tristin Green, University of San Francisco School of Law, is publishing It's Not You, It's Me': 
Assessing an Emerging Relation...

Ronald L. K. Collins, University of Washington School of Law, has published Comedy and Liberty: The Life and Legacy of Lenny Bruce at 79 S...

Patrick J. Charles, United States Air Force Special Operations Command 352nd Special Operations Group, is publishing The Statute of Northam...

Just received:  from the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue internationale de Semiotique juridique, a link to volume 26...

Today on NPR: Oliver Wang looks back at the 1991 copyright infringement lawsuit that composer/singer Gilbert O'Sullivan brought agains...

For those who are nostalgic, or who missed Perry the first time around, CBS is now streaming selected episodes from the first two seasons o...

Cosmis Dariescu, Alexandru I. Cuza, University of Iasi, has published How to Beat Your Wife: Regulations on Domestic Violence in the 17th ...

Norman Ferguson, Jr., a professor at Georgia State, describes incorporating social media into a production of Hamlet, an experiment which h...

Brando Simeo Starkey has published Uncle Tom & Social Norms: Improving Legal Interests and Affecting Public Policy: Introduction . Here...

Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago Law School, is publishing Sport as Speech in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutio...

Mauro Zamboni, Stockholm University Faculty of Law, has published 'A Legal Pluralist World'… or the Black Hole for Modern Legal P...

Andy Martin muses on the difficulty of translation for the Opinion section of the New York Times. Think about how much more treacherous th...

New books available from DeGruyter: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen has edited Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theatre: Nordic Perspec...

Dr. Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, and President of the Associazione Italiana Diretto e Letteratura announces a Conference on Law an...