Law & Humanities Blog
A blog about law, the humanities, and popular culture
November 12, 2014
Sex, Theology, and Marriage in Protestant Thought
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John Witte, Jr., Emory University School of Law, is publishing Sex and Marriage in the Protestant Tradition: 1500-1900 in the Oxford Hand...
Looking at Law and Language Scholarship
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Elizabeth Mertz, University of Wisconsin, Madison; American Bar Foundation; and Jothie Rajah, American Bar Foundation, have published Langu...
Images of the Mexican In Law and Narrative
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Deborah M. Weissman, University of North Carolina, School of Law, is publishing The Politics of Narrative: Law and the Representation of M...
November 10, 2014
Parliamentary Habeas Proceedings in the Reign of James I
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Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., University of Georgia Law School, has published Habeas Corpus Proceedings in the High Court of Parliament in the Rei...
November 7, 2014
Is Zombification Illegal?
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Well, it depends. Of course, you knew I was going to say that. Here's more , courtesy of my good friend Lyonette Louis-Jacques. More la...
November 6, 2014
Copyright Marches On Its Stomach?
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Michela Giorcelli, Stanford University Department of Economics, and Petra Moser, Department of Economics & National Bureau of Economic ...
November 4, 2014
The Early History of U.S. Federal Judicial Selection
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Michael J. Gerhardt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Law, and Michael Ashley Stein, William & Mary Law School, ar...
November 3, 2014
The History of the Law of Suicide
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Danuta Mendelson, Deakin University School of Law, and Ian Freckelton, University of Melbourne, have published The Interface of the Civil a...
A Seminar On Jorge Luis Borges and the Law
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From Jose Calvo Gonzalez, news of an interesting event taking place on November 19, 2014 at the Universidade Federal da Paraiba (UFPB). ...
October 31, 2014
And Next Comes Verona: An International Conference On Fables of the Law
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The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the School of Law, and AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura) are sponsor...
Call For Papers, Law's Pluralities, May 6-8, 2015
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From Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, an announcement of a call for papers for the conference, Law's Pluralities , to be held May...
Brains Eating Themselves
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has a good article today at its website on the links among zombie studies, navel gazing, and well, the in...
A New Blog and a New Book of Interest
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John Denvir, Research Professor of Law at University of San Francisco Law School, has launched a new blog, Guile Is Good , in conjunction w...
October 29, 2014
Full U.S. Breakfast
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Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law, and The Green Bag, has published Breakfast with the Justices: Networking in the Nine...
October 28, 2014
Controversy Over Metropolitan Opera Presentation of "The Death of Klinghoffer"
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The Metropolitan Opera has moved ahead with a presentation of John Adams' opera The Death of Klinghoffer despite many protests that th...
Literature and Comparative Law
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Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, is publishing The Literary Model in Comparative Law in the American Journal o...
October 24, 2014
Walter White, Negotiator
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Jennifer W. Reynolds, University of Oregon School of Law, is publishing Breaking BATNAs: Negotiation Lessons from Walter White in the New...
October 23, 2014
The Condemned Woman In Sir Walter Scott's Writings
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Erin L. Sheley, George Washington University School of Law, has published Doubled Jeopardy: The Condemned Woman as Historical Relic at 24 ...
George IV's "Great Matter"
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Erin L. Sheley, George Washington University School of Law, is publishing Adultery, Criminality, and the Myth of English Sovereignty in vo...
October 22, 2014
Testamentary Manumission In New Jersey in the Early Republic
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Stuart Gold, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, has published The 'Gift' of Liberty: Testamentary Manumission in New Jers...
Stories and Rules
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Stephen Paskey, State University of New York, Buffalo, Law School, has published Law Is Made of Stories: Erasing the False Dichotomy bet...
October 21, 2014
At Cardozo: An Important Discussion on the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, October 30, 2014
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From the Cardozo School of Law: "On the Implications for Contemporary Law and Legal Scholarship on Vichy and Third Reich Judicial...
The Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, 2015
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From AALS: Humanities, History and Social Science Programs a...
October 16, 2014
Call For Papers: Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop, June 8-9, 2015
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for L...
Melville Fuller and the Record of History
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Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, has published Fixing Fuller's Record: The Green Bag and the U.S. ...
October 15, 2014
David Greenglass, Prosecution Witness In Rosenberg Trial, Dies
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The New York Times has published an obituary of David Greenglass, the brother of Ethel Rosenberg. Mr. Greenglass provided crucial testimon...
October 13, 2014
Sing Out, Lucia!
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Michela Giorcilli, Stanford University, Department of Economics, and Petra Moser, Stanford University Department of Economics, National Bur...
Shakespeare As a Political, Legal, and Religious Thinker
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Robert J. Delahunty, University of St. Thomas School of Law, is publishing The Conscience of a King: Law, Religion, and War in Shakespeare...
Multilingualism and Statutory Interpretation
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Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School, has published Multilingualism and Morality in Statutory Interpretation, at Language & Law/Ling...
October 8, 2014
Narrative In the Law School Curriculum
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Susan Ayres, Texas A&;M University School of Law, has published Using Dramatic Narratives to Teach Domestic Violence. Here is the abst...
Originalism Grounded
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Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published Plane Meaning and Thought: Real-World Semantics and Fictions of O...
October 6, 2014
Engaging With the Work of James Boyd White
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Announcement of a new publication from the imprint Maize Books, a division of University of Michigan Press: Living in a Law Transformed: ...
Saul Goodman's Ads
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A commercial for Saul Goodman's law firm. The spinoff from Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, premieres next February. More serious...
The Constitutional Era in the Western Hemisphere
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Matthew C. Mirow, Florida International University College of Law, has published The Age of Constitutions in the Americas at 32 Law &...
October 2, 2014
A New Book From Marianne Constable
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Marianne Constable, University of California, Berkeley, has published Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts (Stanford University Pre...
September 29, 2014
Proceedings of a Conference on Law and Popular Culture Available
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If you missed it: proceedings from a conference on Law and Popular Culture held at Tilburg University are available from Cambridge Scholar...
Re-Examining Blackstone's "Commentaries"
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Jessie Allen, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Law and Artifice in Blackstone's Commentaries in volume 4, issue 3...
Graduate Student Workshop at ASLCH, March 5, 2015
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From James R. Martel, San Francisco State University, on behalf of ASLCH: All graduate students who are considering coming to the ASLCH...
September 25, 2014
Brazilian Law and Literature
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Greta Olson, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, has published Towards a Comparative and Localized Study of Brazilian Law and Literature in D...
September 22, 2014
The Representation of Canadian Law In Art and Architecture
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David DesBaillets, University of Quebec, Montreal (UQAM), Faculty of Law; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, has published Representatio...
Law and Ritual in China
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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...
Lawyers, Love, and Money
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Eli Wald, University of Denver College of Law, and Russell G. Pearce, Fordham University School of Law, have published What's Love Got...
September 18, 2014
Defining Truth
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Giorgio Resta, Università degli Studi di Bari, Law Faculty, and Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich, Roma Tre University, Department of Law, have publi...
September 16, 2014
The Act of Killing
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Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published Law in the Flesh: Tracing Legitimation's Origin to 'The Act of Killing'...
Columbia and the Charles Beard Thesis
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Ajay K. Mehrotra, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, has published Charles A. Beard & The Columbia School of Political Economy: R...
Judge Humorous, Are You Pulling My Leg?
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Mary B. Trevor, Hamline University School of Law, has published From Ostriches To Sci-Fi: A Social Science Analysis of the Impact of Humor ...
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