Law & Humanities Blog

The BBC has contracted with the Agatha Christie estate to bring new adaptations of the married couple whodunits  Partners in Crime  and the...

From Anne Wagner, Faculté de droit, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, announcement of a conference: Synesthetic Legalities: Sensory...

Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of St. Thomas School of Law, is publishing Kermit Gosnell and Uncle Tom's Cabin in the St. Thomas J...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published William Blackstone: Courtroom Dramatist? in Re-Interpreting Blackstone...

Charis E. Kubrin, University of California, Irvine, and Erik Nielson, University of Richmond, are publishing Rap on Trial in Race and Justi...

Howard M. Wasserman, Florida International University College of Law, has published Football and the Infield Fly Rule, at 61 UCLA L. Rev. ...

From Dr. Peter Schneck, Director and Chair of American Studies, University of Osnabrueck *Announcement* * Contested Properties: ...

Elisa Arcioni, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published That Vague But Powerful Abstraction: The Concept of ‘The People’ in the C...

News of an Upcoming Conference Revealing the Links Between Law and Magic A Conference Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Law ...

Announcement From the Louisiana Bar Foundation LBF Seeks 2014-16 Scholar-In-Residence The Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) is accepting...

Alan M. S. J. Coffee, King's College London School of Law, is publishing Freedom as Independence: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Grand Bl...

In case you missed it: Gary Watt , Dress, Law and Naked Truth: A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) ....

Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky, Ariel University, is publishing Ottoman and Jewish Authorities Facing Issues of Prostitution and Adultery: 1700...

William A. Edmundson, Georgia State University College of Law, has published Why Legal Theory is Political Philosophy  at 19 Legal Theory 1...

Anabella Sibrián, International Platform Against Impunity, and Chris Van der Borgh, Utrecht University, have published La Criminalidad de l...

From Monica Lopez Lerma, Coeditor-in-Chief, No Foundations , comes a call for papers for its 11th issue. No Foundations is currently a...

Call For Papers POWER, CAPITAL, CHAOS CRITICAL LEGAL CONFERENCE 2014 4-6 September 2014 UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, BRIGHTON, UK ...

David J. Garrow, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Toward a Definitive History of Griggs v. Duke Power Co. at 67 Vand...

From Dr Ben Golder , Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales, an announcement of a forthcoming symposium: The ...

Fiona Alpins , who is a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and a member of the Victorian Bar, gave this talk on June ...

David Ray Papke, Marquette University Law School, has published Comedic Critique: The Pop Cultural Divorce Lawyer. Here is the abstract. ...

Isabella Alexander, University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Law, has published A Map, a Poem and Two Copyright Statutes as 2013 ANZL...

Nicolás López Pérez, University of Chile School of Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, has published  Dystopias and Legal Theory: A V...

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 ...