October 30, 2013

Present at the Digital Creation...of Mary Shelley's Monster

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If you're anywhere in or around New York City, tag October 31st on your calendar and head for the New York Public Library. You can chec...
October 29, 2013

Rhetoric and Justice at Guantanamo

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Brian Christopher Jones, Academia Sinica, Institutum Iurisprudentiae (IIAS), has published A Triumph of Ill Conceived Language: The Linguis...

AIDEL's International Conference 2013 Set for November 14-16 In Verona

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The Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura (AIDEL) announces its International Conference 2013: "Pwers of Voices/Voices of Power...

A New Book On Artists' Moral and Human Rights

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A new book announcement from Hart Publishing: NOW PUBLISHED   Freedom of Artistic Expression Essays o...
October 28, 2013

From Inside Bars To Sitting for the Bar

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From The Hollywood Reporter : NBC has ordered up a script of Shon Hopwood's memoir Law Man  from Carol Mendelsohn and the result may b...
October 25, 2013

The Establishment Clause, Religious Symbols, Endorsement, and Coercion

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Claudia E. Haupt, Columbia University Law School, is publishing Active Symbols in 55 Boston College Law Review (2014). Here is the abstra...
October 24, 2013

A New Book On Law, Literature, and Narrative

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Jose Calvo Gonzalez of the University of Malaga has published an interesting new book,  Direito Curvo  (Porto Alegre: Editora Livraria do A...

"Suits" Returns For a Fourth Season

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Suits , the USA legal drama, will be back on the USA network for a fourth season. More here from The Hollywood Reporter. The show, starrin...
October 22, 2013

Where The Girls Aren't

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Ryan A. Malphurs, Courtroom Sciences Inc., Jaime Bochantin, DePaul University, L. Hailey Drescher, University of Kansas, and Melissa Walla...
October 21, 2013

Another TV Lawyer Drama

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The tv series Betrayal , based on the Dutch series Overspel , debuted on ABC on September 29, 2013 in a lineup that includes lead-ins of ...

Franklin & Bash Will Return For Another Season

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TNT has renewed the legal series Franklin & Bash   for a new season (its fourth). The show, which stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Brecki...
October 17, 2013

The Influence of Robert M. Cover

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Roy Andrew Partain, Soongsil College of Law, has published Ecologies of Paideic Law: Environmental Law and Robert M. Coverʼs Jurisprudence...
October 16, 2013

The History of European Legal Culture

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Helge Dedek, Mc Gill University Faculty of Law, Institute of Comparative Law, is publishing When Law Became Cultivated: ‘European Legal Cul...

Ada Lovelace Day

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Even though we missed it by a day...a slight detour for a tribute to Ada Lovelace, unfortunately less well known as the mother of computer...
October 14, 2013

Twelve Inquiring Jurors

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Steven Lubet, Northwestern University School of Law, and Kevin Chang have published Stupid Juror Questions? as Northwestern Public Law Res...

Taking Ally Seriously

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John Denvir, University of San Francisco School of Law, has published Romancing the Law: Ally McBeal and the Art of Subversive Comedy a...

Call For Papers

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From Bob Jarvis, Nova Southeastern Law Center, news of a publication opportunity in the area of U.S. legal history (pedagogy): The Octob...
October 10, 2013

New Books In Law and the Humanities

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Some new publications of interest: Julen Etxabe, The Experience of Tragic Judgment (Routledge, 2012) .  Richard Dawson, Justice As A...
October 9, 2013

Fox Ramps Up a New Legal Drama

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Experienced showrunner Howard Gordon ( 24 , Homeland)  is putting together a new legal drama with 24  executive producer Evan Katz for Fox....
October 8, 2013

The Blood Libel Legend

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John Obi Ifediora, University of Wisconsin, has published The Blood Libel Legend: Its Longevity and Popularity . Here is the abstract. J...

Love As a Contract

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Martha M. Ertman, University of Maryland School of Law, has published Love and Contracts in Don Quixote in Don Quixote: Interdisciplinary ...

More On the LHI/Cardozo Blood Libel Conference

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More on the Blood Libel Conference, sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute and Cardozo Law School,  here . The Conference takes plac...

More On Law and Poetry

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Joseph P. Tomain, University of Cincinnati College of Law, is publishing Reading Poets in St. John's Law Review (forthcoming). Here is...
October 3, 2013

Lawyers and Poetry

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Pleasure Boat Studio has published a new anthology of poems inspired by the practice of law. Lawyer Poets and That World We Call Law: An An...

The Blues Brothers and the First Amendment

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Julien Mailland, Indiana University Department of Telecommunications & University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communic...

Law and Equity in Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God"

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Olubukola Olugasa, Babcock University School of Law and Security Studies, has published Interplay of Law and Equity in Chinua Achebe's...

Performing Law

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Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published Law as Performance: Presence and Simulation in the Theater/Courtroom. Here is the a...
October 2, 2013

Spanish Law and Religion

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Rafael Palomino, Facultade de Derecho, Universidad Complutense, has published Manual Breve de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (Spanish Law ...
October 1, 2013

Repeat: Call for Papers and Registration: Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities

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CALL FOR PAPERS: ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES Seventeenth Annual Conference March 10-11, 2014, Univ...
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...