March 31, 2014

The Development of the Theory of Enterprise Liability From the Late Nineteenth Century through the 1970s

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Edmund Ursin, University of San Diego School of Law, has published Holmes, Cardozo, and the Legal Realists: Early Incarnations of Legal Pra...
March 29, 2014

Beethoven, Unity, and a Flash Mob in a Fish Market

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Hobart Earle, the Odessa Philharmonic, and the Odessa Opera Chorus performed Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (which is also the EU...
March 27, 2014

Inviting In the Social Sciences

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Nicolette M. Priaulx, Cardiff University, University of Wales System, Cardiff Law School, and Martin Weinel, Cardiff School of Social Scien...

Rights, Language, and Law

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Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen Faculty of Law, and Fernand De Varennes, University of Hong Kong, University of Pretoria, Vytauta...
March 25, 2014

Call For Papers, Special Issue: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

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From Anne Wagner, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Special Issue Call for Papers   "Marginalised Bo...
March 24, 2014

Call For Fiction!

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From Alafair Burke, Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law, comes news of a competition: Mystery Writing Competi...

What James Bond's Dad Did in the War

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From Oxford University Press, new in paperback: Ian Fleming's Commandos The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit Nicholas Ra...
March 22, 2014

Rediscovering Crime Fiction of the Golden Age

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Nice blog here , called the Passing Tramp, devoted to mystery and crime fiction, particularly of the Golden Age, with many illustrations. T...
March 20, 2014

Call for Papers: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

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Call for Papers from Anne Wagner, Editor in Chief, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Special Issue Call for Papers “Signs i...
March 17, 2014

Application Deadline Extended: International Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

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Application Deadline Extended Until April 6, 2014 *Announcement*   * Contested Properties: Culture, Rights and the Humanities*   Interna...

Blackstone's Influence On Quebec's Legal Regime

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Michel Morin, University of Montreal, is publishing Blackstone and the Birth of Quebec's Legal Culture 1765-1867 in Re-Interpreting Bl...
March 14, 2014

Pi Day!

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It's Pi Day! March 13 (3/14) is celebrated around the world as the day for venerating the mathematical ratio of a circle's diameter...
March 13, 2014

An Interesting Presentation On the Trial of Alfred Dreyfus

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José Calvo Gonzalez, Universidad de Málaga, is presenting a workshop on Alfred Dreyfus and the meaning of his trial, on March 24, at the ...
March 12, 2014

The Development of Western Law After Justinian

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M. Stuart Madden has published Paths of Western Law after Justinian in volume 22 of the Widener Law Journal (2013). Here is the abstract....
March 10, 2014

Call For Papers: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

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From Anne Wagner, Editor in Chief, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law CALL FOR PAPERS THEMATIC ISSUE INTERNATIONAL ...
March 6, 2014

Free Books From the University Press of Kentucky!

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Great news from the University Press of Kentucky. It has started up its free book giveaways again. Once a month, the Press offers a special...
March 5, 2014

A Symposium on Art, Life, and the Rule of Law at Lund University

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Upcoming Conference at Lund University, Lund, Sweden Symposium - Art, Life and the Rule of Law International Colloquium in...

A New Book From Ian Ward

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Sex,Crime and Literature in Victorian England Ian Ward The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worri...
February 28, 2014

BBC To Air New Versions of "Partners In Crime" and "And Then There Were None" In 2015

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The BBC has contracted with the Agatha Christie estate to bring new adaptations of the married couple whodunits  Partners in Crime  and the...
February 27, 2014

A Forthcoming Conference On the Semiotics of Law (2015)

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From Anne Wagner, Faculté de droit, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, announcement of a conference: Synesthetic Legalities: Sensory...
February 26, 2014

Telling Abortion Stories

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

Eighteenth Century Lawyers On Stage

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Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published William Blackstone: Courtroom Dramatist? in Re-Interpreting Blackstone...
February 24, 2014

Rap in Court

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

Football Rules

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

Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law, August 4-16, 2014

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

"The People" In the Australian Constitution

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Elisa Arcioni, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published That Vague But Powerful Abstraction: The Concept of ‘The People’ in the C...
February 19, 2014

A June Conference Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law

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

Call For Applications

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

Mary Wollstonecraft's View of Independence

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