Law & Humanities Blog

Robert C. Power, Widener University School of Law, has published 'The Wire' and Alternative Stories of Law and Inequality in volum...

Carlos L. Bernal Pulido, Universidad Externado de Colombia, has published En Búsqueda De La Estructura Ontológica Del Derecho (In Search ...

Hart Publishing announces: The contents of Law and Humanities Volume 7 .  Number 1 . 2013.   To access this issue online, read the ab...

James A. Lynch and Hershy H. Friedman, both of the Department of Finance and Business Management, Brooklyn College, have published Using La...

Eoin Daly, University College, Dublin, has published Ritual and Symbolic Power in Rousseau’s Constitutional Thought as UCD Working Papers ...

Newly published in the law and literature area: Jose Calvo Gonzalez,  Derecho y Literatura, ad Usum  Scholaris Juventutis (con relato i...

Helge Dedek, McGill University Faculty of Law; Institute of Comparative Law, is publishing De Iure Hominis et Homunculi: Rights, Tristram S...

Very interesting new book edited by Daniela Carpi and Jeanne Gaakeer, published by DeGruyter, entitled Liminal Discourses: Subliminal Tensi...

Jack M. Balkin, Yale University Law School, is publishing The New Originalism and the Uses of History in the Fordham Law Review (forthcomin...

Carlo A. Pedrioli, Barry University School of Law, has published Professor Kingsfield in Conflict: Rhetorical Constructions of the U.S. La...

Allen Rostron, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, has published The Law and Order Theme in Political and Popular Culture ...

From Reginald L. Robinson, Howard University Law School, news of the following: 19 th Annual Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Sc...

John M. Kang, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published Does Manly Courage Exist? in volume 13 of the Nevada Law Journal (2013). ...

The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (Boalt Hall) will sponsor a symposium on October 4, 2013: Speech, Symbols, and Substantial Ob...

Michael C. Blumm, Lewis & Clark Law School, has published Anti-Monopoly and the Radical Lockean Origins of Western Water Law. Here is ...

Renana Keydar, Stanford University School of Humanities Sciences, has published 'I Was in a War, and in a War Things Like that Happen...

Newly published: Law, Culture, and Visual Studies (Anne Wagner and Richard K. Sherwin, eds.; Springer, 2013). Link here. This work con...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 4 (1769) , i...

Paul D. Callister, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law, has published The Book as Authoritative Sign in Seventeenth-Century ...

While Mark S. Weiner was in Euope last year, he asked a number of legal professionals to compare their legal systems to music, animals, spo...

Revealing the Links Between Law and Magic A Conference Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Law Institute and Thomas Jefferson School o...

From Anne Wagner, Editor in Chief, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law : INVITATION TO SUBMIT INDEPENDENT PAPERS FOR THE INT...

From the July 28th New York Times, A. O. Scott on the true nature  of "Breaking Bad"'s Walter White, and the intersection of ...

The ABA Journal, August issue has the annual pop culture feature: this year is devoted to "the 25 Greatest Law Novels." The panel...

Cristina E. Parau, University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations, and J. Wittmeier Bains are publishing Constitu...

F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Barry University School of Law & Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, has published The Parable of the P...

Helge Dedek, McGill University Faculty of Law, Institute of Comparative Law, has published Duties of Love and Self-Perfection: Moses Mendel...

Eveline T. Feteris, University of Amsterdam, and Harm Kloosterhuis, Erasmus School of Law, have published Law and Argumentation Theory: Th...

Markus D. Dubber, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, has published Ultima Ratio as Caveat Dominus: Legal Principles, Police Maxims, and...

Simon Stern of the University of Toronto notes that Elizabeth Parish Smith has published "In a Bar Room Called the 'Fifteen Amendm...

Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Make Me Walk, Make Me Talk, Do Whatever You Please: Barbie and Exceptions ...

From the Law and Society Association: We are excited to announce early information about the Law and Society Association 2014 Annual Mee...

John Copeland Nagle, Notre Dame Law School, has published What Hath Lynn White Wrought? at 2 Fare Forward 44 (2012). Here is the abstract....

Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Book Review: Gilles Cuniberti, Grands Systèmes De Droit Con...

When the criminal justice system uses an acronym to refer to a defendant, sometimes not everyone gets the memo. The New York Times' Ben...

The New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement  has published the proceedings of a fall play and panel discussion and spring sym...

From NPR : news that a composer/lawyer has put the philosophical iconic battle between Justices Scalia and Ginsburg to music. Derrick Wang ...

From Elizabeth Clark, Associate Professor of Law, Brigham Young School of Law: The International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies...

The July 3, 2013 Google doodle is a tribute to Franz Kafka 's "Metamorphosis": see here . Kafka's work is shot through wi...

Ronald J. Rychlak, University of Mississippi School of Law, has published Gambling with the Bronx Bombers: Betting on, Against, and with ...

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