September 30, 2013

The Return To the Bramble Bush

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Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law, has published   Bramble Bush Revisited: Karl Llewellyn, the Great Depression, and the ...
September 26, 2013

There's An App For That!

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If you like the show NCIS (I have to admit that I do think Mark Harmon is eye candy as well as a good actor and I loved  David McCallum as...

Looking For Women's Rights In the Constitution

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Jill Elaine Hasday, University of Minnesota Law School, has published Women's Exclusion from the Constitutional Canon  in the Universit...
September 25, 2013

A New Award, Named For Penelope Pether

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From Keith Bybee,  Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media at Syracuse University, announcement of a n...

Call For Papers: Annual Meeting of Law & Society/Africa Law and Society

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From Mark Kende, Drake University Law School: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK CALL FOR PAPERS:  AFRICA LAW AND SOCIETY (CRN 13)          ...

Histories of the Law

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Lawrence Friedman, New England Law School, has published Introduction to: 'Law and the Modern Condition: Literary and Historical Perspe...
September 24, 2013

A Law and/in/as Literature Conference in Brazil, October 30 to November 1

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From our colleague Jose Calvo Gonzalez at the University of Malaga, news of another extremely interesting conference, this one in Brazil. ...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Ownership

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Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has published From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried: Carrie Mae Weems’ Challenge to t...

Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop Call For Papers

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From Susan Sage Heinzelman, University of Texas, Austin: CALL FOR PAPERS - Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop The Universit...
September 23, 2013

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Is Still Relevant

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Ann E. Tweedy, Hamline University School of Law, is publishing Reflections on Reading Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mai...
September 20, 2013

A New Way To Examine Law and Film

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Suzanne Bouclin, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, has published Méthodologies ambidextres en droit (Ambidextrous Legal Methodologi...
September 19, 2013

Eager Prosecutor Cuts Short Tom Hanks' Career As Juror

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A trial in which actor Tom Hanks was serving as a juror skidded to a halt when a prosecutor not assigned to the case approached him during ...

In Memoriam: Penelope Pether

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We are saddened to report the passing of Penelope Pether, Professor of Law at Villanova University, and a former member of the Board of Gov...
September 17, 2013

Call for Papers, ASLCH

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From James Martel, President, ASLCH: Information about next year's ASLCH's meeting, which will be held at the University of Virgin...
September 16, 2013

Update On Conference on Blood Libel To Be Held November 14-15, 2013, at Cardozo Law School

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On Nov.14-15, the Cardozo Law School Program on Holocaust Human Rights Studies, and the Law & Humanities Institute, will sponsor a conf...
September 13, 2013

Creating Art Out of Crime

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Katherine Biber, University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Law, is publishing In Crime's Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Crimina...

Here Comes the (Funny) Judge

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Mary B. Trevor, Hamline University School of Law, is publishing Ostriches, Trees, the 'Perfect Trial,' and Sci-Fi: A Social Scienc...
September 12, 2013

The Development of Western Law From 565 CE

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M. Stuart Madden, Pace University School of Law, has published Paths of Western Law after Justinian at 22 Widener L.J. 757 (2013). Here i...
September 9, 2013

Public Constitutionalism In the Ante-Bellum Cemetery

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Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Law School, has published 'These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dea...
September 5, 2013

Fifth National Congress of Teaching In Law, Valencia, Spain, September 11-13, 2013

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From Professor Jose Calvo Gonzalez, information on the Fifth National Congress of Teaching in Law , “Las transformaciones en la docencia y ...
September 4, 2013

Law and Humanities Institute and Cardozo Law School Sponsor Conference On History of Blood Libel

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Upcoming: a fall conference sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute and the Program on Holocaust Human Rights Studies, Cardozo Law Sc...
September 3, 2013

Colonialism, Cultural Assumptions, Property Rights, and Land Law Reform

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Robert Home, Anglia Ruskin University, has published ‘Culturally Unsuited to Property Rights?’: Colonial Land Laws and African Societies a...
September 2, 2013

Where Stories Come From

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Andrew C. Isenberg on the creation of the Wyatt Earp myth . From the Daily Beast.
August 29, 2013

Telling Stories About Law and Inequality On "The Wire"

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Robert C. Power, Widener University School of Law, has published 'The Wire' and Alternative Stories of Law and Inequality in volum...
August 27, 2013

The Ontological Structure of Law

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

A New Issue of Law and Humanities

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Hart Publishing announces: The contents of Law and Humanities Volume 7 .  Number 1 . 2013.   To access this issue online, read the ab...
August 26, 2013

How Many Law Professors Does It Take To....

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

Rousseau's Republican Ritual

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Eoin Daly, University College, Dublin, has published Ritual and Symbolic Power in Rousseau’s Constitutional Thought as UCD Working Papers ...
August 23, 2013

New Publications In Iberian and Hispanic Law and Literature

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Newly published in the law and literature area: Jose Calvo Gonzalez,  Derecho y Literatura, ad Usum  Scholaris Juventutis (con relato i...
August 22, 2013

Individiual Rights In "Tristram Shandy"

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Helge Dedek, McGill University Faculty of Law; Institute of Comparative Law, is publishing De Iure Hominis et Homunculi: Rights, Tristram S...
August 21, 2013

A New Book On Law and Literature

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

Historical Argument and Constitutional Interpretation

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