Law & Humanities Blog

The Guardian offers up its Top Ten list of film noir picks here.  What are yours?

Philip Schofield, University College London, Faculty of Laws, has published The Legal and Political Legacy of Jeremy Bentham at 9 Annual R...

Richard Weisberg, Cardozo School of Law, has published Grisham vs. Solmssen as Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 411. Here is the a...

Bert Van Roermund, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg School of Humanities, Tilburg Law School, has published Rules as Icons: Wittgenstein's P...

Randall Lesaffer, Tilburg Law Faculty; KU Leuven Faculty of Law; Tilburg University, International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVIC...

Chihbli Mallat, University of Utah College of Law & Université Saint-Joseph, and Mara Revkin, Yale Law School, have published Middle Ea...

Ryan Rowberry, Georgia State University College of Law, has published Legal History Through Digital Sources in volume 53 of the American J...

Lloyd England, Monash University Faculty of Law, has published Law and the Art of Happiness . Here is the abstract. Happiness as an abst...

Erlend Lavik, University of Bergen, and Stef Van Gompel, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law, have published On the Pros...

Kenneth D. Chestek, University of Wyoming College of Law, is publishing The Life of the Law Has Not Been Logic: It Has Been Story in volu...

Kirsten Sellers, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, Centre for Asian Legal Studies, is publishing German Aggression and the ...

Dana D. Dyson and John R. Arnold, and Sasha Drummond-Lewis, University of Michigan, Flint, have published Lights, Camera, Action: Repressiv...

Sharon Cowan, University of Edinburgh School of Law, has published 'We Walk Among You': Trans Identity Politics Goes to the Movies ...

News from Amy Dillard on behalf of the Penny Pether Law and Language Scholarship Award Committee: Michael Burger of Roger Williams Uni...

Hector Lewis MacQueen, University of Edinburgh School of Law, has published The Law of Obligations in Scots Law in The Law of Obligations i...

Ozan O. Varol, Lewis & Clark Law School, is publishing Revolutionary Humor in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. H...

Orna Ben-Naftali, College of Management Academic Studies; The Emile Zola Chair for Human Rights; and Zvi H. Triger, College of Management A...

Yale Law School professors Judith Resnik and Denny Curtis have won the Order of the Coif Book Award for their magnum opus, Representing Ju...

We have extended the date for the call for papers for this conference to January 6, 2014. We encourage interested persons to submit propos...

The Guardian examines  depictions of JFK's assassination in popular culture.

Ruthann Robson, CUNY School of Law, has published 27 Words at 13 MEMOIR: The Guns Issue 85 (2013). Here is the abstract. The 27 words...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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