Law & Humanities Blog

If you missed it: proceedings from a conference on Law and Popular Culture held at Tilburg University are available from Cambridge Scholar...

Jessie Allen, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Law and Artifice in Blackstone's Commentaries in volume 4, issue 3...

From James R. Martel, San Francisco State University, on behalf of ASLCH: All graduate students who are considering coming to the ASLCH...

Greta Olson, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, has published Towards a Comparative and Localized Study of Brazilian Law and Literature in D...

David DesBaillets, University of Quebec, Montreal (UQAM), Faculty of Law; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, has published Representatio...

Mary Szto, Hamline University School of Law, has published Chinese Ritual and the Practice of Law in volume 30 of the Touro Law Review (201...

Eli Wald, University of Denver College of Law, and Russell G. Pearce, Fordham University School of Law, have published What's Love Got...

Giorgio Resta, Università degli Studi di Bari, Law Faculty, and Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich, Roma Tre University, Department of Law, have publi...

Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published Law in the Flesh: Tracing Legitimation's Origin to 'The Act of Killing'...

Ajay K. Mehrotra, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, has published Charles A. Beard & The Columbia School of Political Economy: R...

Mary B. Trevor, Hamline University School of Law, has published From Ostriches To Sci-Fi: A Social Science Analysis of the Impact of Humor ...

Robert P. Burns, Northwestern University School of Law, has published Preface for: Kafka's Law: 'The Trial' and American Crimi...

Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) invites outstanding faculty members, independent scholars, lawyers, and ju...

William S. Hein & Co. has published Mark Twain vs. Lawyers, Lawmakers and Lawbreakers: Humorous Observations,  edited by attorney and ...

Shana Tabak, American University Washington College of Law, has published Grace Kanode Llewellyn: Local Portia at the Tokyo War Crimes Tri...

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, has published Revulsions of Capital: The ...

Christina Mulligan, Brooklyn Law School, Michael Douma, James Madison University, Hans Lind, Yale University, and Brian Patrick Quinn, Ind...

I'd like to alert those of you planning to attend the AALS Annual Meeting in January 2015 to three interesting events taking place duri...

From Anne Wagner at the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law: CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE ON ISLAMIC LAW INTERNATIONAL JOU...

From the Australian National University, announcement of a forthcoming Symposium: Queer Objects: A Symposium with Robyn Wiegman and A...

The ABA Journal is running its September cartoon captioning contest. Submit your caption by September 14, 2014 and receive the title of Cha...

Per  Steve Klepper of Balti­more's Kramon & Graham for the National Law Journal.  (Requires subscription to view the entire SC effe...

Registration is now open for John Jay College of Criminal Justice's MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the Literature and Law of Amer...

Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law & University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of History, and Philip J. ...

The June 2014 issue (volume 8, no. 1) of Law and Humanities is now available. Here is the table of contents. Gary Watt, Editorial  at iii...

From Bridget Crawford, Pace Law School, comes this Call for Papers:   The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors of revise...

Mae Kuykendall, Michigan State University College of Law, has published Restatement of Place in volume 79 of the Brooklyn Law Review (2014...

Mae Kuykendall, Michigan State University College of Law, has published  Sandra Seaton's 'A Bed Made in Heaven'; Family, Race, ...

Our friend José Calvo González of the University of Malaga Faculty of Law tells us of the publication of Derecho y Literatura Hispánica , ...

Scott Shimick, SUNY, Geneseo, is publishing Heisenberg's Uncertainty: An Analysis of Criminal Tax Pretextual Prosecutions in the Conte...

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will hold its Eighteenth Annual Meeting at the Georgetown University Law...

Registration is now open for the Central States Law Schools Association 2014 Scholarship Conference, which will be held on Friday, October ...

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...