Law & Humanities Blog

Breaking Bad 's spin-off series, Better Call Saul, will have a delayed premiere date, but not because of network questions about its vi...

PBS will begin airing the last season's adaptations of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels on July 27.  After a quarter of a century, w...

Archie Andrews, the lovable character familiar to many from the " Archie" comics , meets his end in today's installment of Li...

Preliminary call for papers for the December 9-12 2015 conference on "Complicity" at the University of Technology Sydney Law Sch...

Marie A. Failinger, Hamline University School of Law, has published Twenty-Five Years of Law and Religion Scholarship: Some Reflections at...

Jeffrey K. Sawyer, University of Baltimore, School of Law, has published Women, Law, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Early Harford County ...

Ann Cammett, CUNY School of Law, has published Deadbeat Dads & Welfare Queens: How Metaphor Shapes Poverty Law at 34 Boston College Jou...

Michael D. Murray, Valparaiso University Law School,  has published Visual Rhetoric and Storytelling in Five Sections of a Brief. Here is ...

Clare McGlynn, Durham Law School, and Ian Ward, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, are publishing Would John Stuart Mill Have Regulated Por...

From Marco Wan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong, comes this call for papers for the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Righ...

Francis Joseph (Jay) Mootz, III, is publishing Hermeneutics and Law in The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics (Naill Keane and Chris La...

From Anne Wagner of the China University of Political Science and Law, and Editor of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, an...

On Thursday, July 3rd, at the Library of Congress, the famed baritone Thomas Hampson and some friends will introduce us to an unfamiliar (b...

From Monica Lopez Lerma, Co-Editor-in-Chief, No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice, comes information about the ...

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...