Law & Humanities Blog

Mortimer Newlin Stead Seller, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published Law, Reason, and Emotion . Here is the abstract. Law...

James L. Gibson, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Political Science, Milton Lodge, Stony Brook University, Department of P...

Moira Peelo, Lancaster University, and Keith Soothill, Lancaster University, have published ‘Marginal’ Crime: The Example of Blackmail in R...

Herschel Prins, Loughborough University & University of Birmingham, has published Mental Disorder, Criminality and the Literary Imagina...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, has published A Christmas Gift for the Supreme Court: How a 1959 Holi...

Ahmed White, University of Colorado Law School, has published T he Wagner Act on Trial: The 1937 'Little Steel' Strike and the Lim...

Mary Brigid McManamon, Widener University School of Law, is publishing The Natural Born Citizen Clause as Originally Understood in the Cat...

Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, and Megan Slack, Slack Law Firm, are publishing The Semiotics of Film in US Supreme Court C...

Kevin P. Lee, Campbell University Law School, has published Emanuel Levinas on Hegel's Antigone: Levinas and the Problem of Modernity. ...

Stephen Paskey, State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo Law School, is publishing The Law is Made of Stories: Erasing the False Dichoto...

A new book on law and Harry Potter, this one in French: Jean-Claude Milner, Harry Potter: A l’école des sciences morales et politiques (P...

Newly published: The Ashgate Handbook of Legal Translation  (Le Cheng, Ing Kui Sin, Anne Wagner, eds.; Ashgate, 2014) (Law, Language, and...

Matthias Goldmann, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, has published Principles in International Law as ...

Michal Tamir, Shaarei Mishpat College of Law is publishing Law and Yoga in the Journal of Law and Social Deviance. Here is the abstract. ...

Kenneth K. Ching, Regent University School of Law, has published Beauty and Ugliness in Offer and Acceptance. Here is the abstract. Thi...

Honni Van Rijswijk, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law, is publishing Archiving the Northern Territory Intervention in Law, an...

Alecia Simmonds, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law, has published Trading Sentiments: Friendship and Commerce in John Turnbul...

Penelope Andrews, Albany Law School, has published A Champion for African Freedom: Paul Robeson and the Struggle Against Apartheid in vol...

The new CBS legal drama, Reckless,  premieres June 29th at 9 p.m., 8 Central time. Watch a promo here.  The series is based on a British sh...

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...