Law & Humanities Blog

A new photography exhibit opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art January 31 and runs through May 4: Photography and the American Civil War....

Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing  'I'm a Lawyer, Not an Ethnographer, Jim': Textual Poachers a...

Suzanne Bouclin, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, has published YouTube and Muslim Women's Legal Subjectivities in volume 3 o...

From Marco Wan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong, comes this Call For Papers: Law Text Culture – Volume 18 (2014) CA...

CNN suggests Scandal 's Olivia Pope would have a game plan for clients in pop star Justin Bieber's current legal situation. More he...

If you missed it: check out Ruthann Robson's  (CUNY Law) Dressing Constitutionally  (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Here's t...

Christina Ricci resurrects lead character Lizzie Borden in Lifetime Movie Network's retelling of the famous unsolved murders of Andrew ...

Ruthann Robson, CUNY School of Law has published Beyond Sumptuary: Constitutionalism, Clothes, and Bodies in Anglo-American Law, 1215-1789 ...

Dustin A. Zacks has published A Bend in the Law & Literature: Greed, Anarchy and Dictatorship in the African Worlds of V.S. Naipaul and...

P. G. Monateri, Sciences Po, Ecole de Droit; Law School, University of Turin;  has published Law, Language and Custom. (Legge, Linguaggio e...

An announcement of a law and humanities conference at Australian National University: Law and the Visual—Transitions & Transforma...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing The Trial of Dorian Gray in Dorian Gray in the Twenty-First Century (Rich...

From Olivier Moreteau, Louisiana State University Law Center   CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS JURIS DIVERSITAS ANNUAL CO...

The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School is pleased to announce a free public event: Speaking for the Humanities On Thu...

P. G. Monateri, Sciences Po, Ecole de Droit; Law School, University of Torino (Italy); University of Turin, Faculty of Law, has published I...

London's Mayor Boris Johnson says the fake news story that pops up at the end of the most recent episode (Season 3, episode 1) of the B...

Check out this interesting blog (in French)-- Le Blog Droit et Cinema.

From James Martel, President of ASLCH: (message edited) Register for the conference at   https://www.regonline.com/17thannualmeetingL...

Michele Pifferi, University of Ferrara, Faculty of Law, has published Global Criminology and National Tradition. The Impact of Reform Movem...

Vincent Chetail, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI), has published Vattel and the American Dream: An Inquiry...

News about the Supreme Court bobblehead premiums one might score for subscribing to The Green Bag  (nice marketing touch, that) seems to be...

Charles E. MacLean, Indiana Tech Law School, has published Helping Legal Writers Embrace Their Inner Salieri: Re-Vision is Just 'Seein...

Pedro Caro de Sousa, University of Oxford, has published Law as Tragedy. Here is the abstract. Natural law and tragedy have been long ...

From The Hollywood Reporter, a review of CBS's new series, Intelligence,   which premieres January 7 at 9 p.m. (8 Central time), after...

Barry Sullivan, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, has published A Book that Shaped Your World: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, ...

Welcome back to a new year at the Law and Humanities Blog! To start us off, here is an announcement, with CFP, sent to us by Yasco Horsman,...

Lawrence B. Solum, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Originalism and the Unwritten Constitution at 2013 University of Illinoi...

Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan Law School, has published History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150 at 3 Jou...

John Tehranian, Southwestern Law School, has published It'll Break Your Heart Every Time: Flood v. Kuhn , (Baseball) Romanticism and ...

Ian C. Pilarczyk, Boston University School of Law, has published ' To Shudder at the Bare Recital of Those Acts': Child Abuse, Fami...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: Greg Grandin on the historical background of Melville's Benito Cereno.  Dr. Grandin is the auth...

Fox is adapting the popular Australian legal drama (actually more of a dramedy), Rake ,  which stars Richard Roxburgh as Sydney-based Cleav...

Christopher L. Tomlins, University of California, Irvine, Law School, has published Law ‘And’, Law ‘In’, Law ‘As’: The Definition, Rejectio...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law and The Green Bag has published Feeding the Right Stuff: Would You Clerk for Learned ...

From the Law and Society Association: Attention Junior Scholars - would you like a chance to present your ideas for the Law and Society...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Law & Literature (As an Approach to Criminal Law in The Oxford Handboo...

Storytelling For Lawyers , a new publication from Philip Meyer, Vermont Law School. From the Oxford University Press website: 0...

Frederick Mark Gedicks, Brigham Young University Law School, and Pasquale Annicchino, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre...