Law & Humanities Blog

Markus D. Dubber, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Histories of Crime and Criminal Justice and the Historical Analysis o...

Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), is publishing Peering in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy. Here is the abstr...

Hector Lewis MacQueen, University of Edinburgh School of Law, has published Scots and English Law c.1603: Uniting or Dividing Kingdoms? as...

Charles J. Reid, Jr., University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Highway to Hell: The Great National Highway Debate...

François-Xavier Licari, University of Lorraine, has published François Gény in Louisiana  at 6 Journal of Civil Law Studies 475 (2013). He...

Radu Florescu, who with Raymond T. McNally wrote the popular book In Search of Dracula  (Mariner Books, 1994), as well as numerous other vo...

Some fun for a Monday:  today's Google Doodle features the Rubik's Cube.  Need help with the solution? Check   here . More Cubes  h...

Hector Lewis MacQueen, University of Edinburgh, School of Law, has published Ae Fond Kiss: A Private Matter? in Judge and Jurist: Essays i...

Gregory E. Maggs, George Washington University Law School, has published A Concise Guide to Using Dictionaries from the Founding Era to Det...

Francesco Di Donato, University Parthenope of Napoli, has published La hiérarchie des normes dans l’ordre juridique, social et institution...

Elizabeth G. Porter, University of Washington School of Law, is publishing Taking Images Seriously in the Columbia Law Review. Here is the ...

Jonathan Yovel, Yale Law School; NYU School of Law, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice; University of Haifa Faculty...

From the New York Times' Opinion pages, discussion of  a documentary on a courtroom sketch artist and the impact of cameras in the ...

Reminder: The Conference on Law and Magic, co-sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute and Thomas Jefferson School of Law, takes place...

From our good friend  José Calvo Gonzalez, Universidad de Málaga, news of an upcoming  Conference in Law and Psychoanalysis to be held in C...

From Michael Froomkin, University of Miami Law School: Call for Papers: Legal Scholarship We Like, and Why It Matters University of...

Dan Solove on Gabriel Garcia Marquez (from Concurring Opinions).

Jorge L. Contreras, American University College of Law, has published No Matter How Small ... Property, Autonomy and State in Horton Hears ...

Laura E. Little, Temple University School of Law, has published Legal Restriction and Protection of Humor, in the Encylopedia of Humor (Sa...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Legal and Literary Fictions in New Directions in Law and Literature (Eliz...

Volume 5, number 2 (Winter 2013) of Victorian Network features the theme Victorians and the Law: Literature and Legal Culture, edited by Ca...

The journal  Connotations has issued a Call for Papers for its 2015 symposium, which it will hold at the Eberhard Karls University in Tuebi...

The Hollywood Reporter on likely pilot pickups for the fall: included is a new Shonda Rhimes series, How To Get Away With Murder,  about a...

Sherman J. Clark, University of Michigan Law School, has published Frost for Lawyers: 'The Best Thing that We're Put Here For's...

Take this Buzzfeed quiz to see your Classic Mystery Novel Lovers quotient. Mine is Rookie Detective (my score was 59 novels of 99, and no,...

Ghislain Otis, University of Ottawa, Civil Law Section, has published The Impact of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on Quebec: Then and Now...

Mark Nevitt, U. S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps, is publishing Unintended Consequences: The Posse Comitatus Act in the Modern Er...

David Schorr, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law, has published Riparian Rights in Lower Canada and Canada East: Inter-Imperial ...

From Charlton Copeland, University of Miami: Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities “Law and the Hero” 2015 AALS An...

Robert A Kahn, University of  St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Does it Matter How One Opposes Hate Speech Bans? A Criti...

William Baude, University of Chicago Law School, has published Zombie Federalism. Here is the abstract. The most natural question to a...

Scholars Zbigniew Rau and Marek Tracz-Tryniecki of the University of Lodz have co-edited a new book on my favorite nineteenth century po...

Grant Hamilton Morris, Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law, has published Devils Down Under: Perceptions of Lawyers' Ethic...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Blackstone's Legal Actors: The Passions of a Rational Jurist  in Impas...

Karen E. Boxx, University of Washington School of Law, has published Shakespeare in the Classroom: How an Annual Student Production of King...

From Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylania School of Law Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Named after the late Kathryn T. Preyer, a dis...

Paul H. Robinson, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Sarah M. Robinson are publishing Justice: 1850s San Francisco and the Californ...

Katia Fach Gómez, University of Zaragoza, has published Why Does Legal English Sound Like Gibberish To Many Spanish Law Students? Here is t...

Here's an update on the Law and Magic Conference, sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law,...