Law & Humanities Blog

The AALS Section of Law and the Humanities has issued the following CFP for the 2016 Meeting. The following is a Call for Papers is...

The ABA has released the list of finalists for the 2015 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts. Here are the names in all categories. T...

Michael Schearer, University of Maryland School of Law, has published No Ma’am: Progressive Reform as an Obstacle to Gender Equality. Here...

Jocelyn Simonson, New York University School of Law, is publishing Copwatching in volume 104 of the California Law Review (2016). Here is t...

The 6th International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI), Emergent Paradigms: Current Issues and Debates in...

David B. Kopel, Independence Institute and University of Denver College of Law, has published Lyman Trumbull: Author of the Thirteenth Amen...

Kaius Tuori, Network for European Studies, has published The Theory and Practice of Indigenous Dispossession in the Late Nineteenth Century...

J. Richard Broughton, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, has published The Ineludible (Constitutional) Politics of Guns in volume 4...

Adam Sean Feldman, University of Southern California, Department of Political Science, has published A Brief Assessment of Supreme Court Op...

Clare Cushman, Supreme Court Historical Society, has published 'Lost' Clerks of the White Court Era. Here is the abstract. Whil...

Recently concluded: a conference called The Legal Medium: New Encounters of Law and Art, February 28, 2015, at Yale Law School.   Speakers...

New from Cambridge University Press: Robert J. Donia, Radovan Karadžič: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide Radovan Karadžić...

Mark Walters, Queen's University Faculty of Law, has published The Aboriginal Charter of Rights: The Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the...

Michael Olivas, past President of the Association of American Law Schools and William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University...

Paulo Barrozo, Boston College Law School, has published The Great Alliance: History, Reason, and Will in Modern Law in volume 78 of Law an...

Gabriela Goudenhooft, University of Oradea, Faculty of History, International Relations, Political Sciences and Communication Sciences (IRI...

Christopher K. Odinet, Southern University Law Center, has published Commerce, Commonality, and Contract Law: Legal Reform in a Mixed Juris...

Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University School of Law, has published Hinduism and Law in Hinduism in India: Modern and Contemporary M...

Veronique Fortin, University of California, Irvine, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, has published Occupation, Exclusion and the...

I've blogged elsewhere about Taber, Alberta's new bylaw (4-2015) which bans swearing, yelling, spitting, loud music, and gatherin...

Suzanne Bouclin, University of Ottawa Common Law Section, has published Homeless Nation: Producing Legal Subjectivities Through New Media ...

Of interest: a new book (in French) on law in Star Trek , Le droit selon Star Trek , by Professor Fabrice Defferard, of the University of R...

Ayelet Oz, Harvard University Law School, has published The Legal Consciousness of Wikipedia as her SJD dissertation. Here is the abstract...

Rachel Stabler, University of Miami School of Law, has published 'What We've Got Here is Failure to Communicate': The Plain Wri...

Thomas Margoni, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law (IViR), has published The Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: Origina...

Maia Weinstock creates female U.S. Supreme Court Justices in Legos! Tip of the beret to Bridget Crawford.

Dmitry Dozhdev, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of State and Law, has published '...

Marcelo C. Galuppo, UC Minas; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and University of Baltimore School of Law, has published Mimesis, Imagin...

Call for Proposals: June 27th, 2015 at the Boston University Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning . DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL...

Alison L. LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School, has published A Man for All Treasons: Crimes by and Against the Tudor State in the Nov...

From Kathleen Moore, Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: Call for Papers T...

In an exhibit called The International Center of Photography is once again highlighting stark and captivating photography of  New York by W...

Hart Publishing has issued a volume dedicated to the philosophy and work of Leonard Hoffmann. Here's the description of the book, from...

David J. Herring, University of New Mexico School of Law, is publishing Teaching Legal Frameworks in Supplementing Socrates (Durham, NC: C...

Charles J. Reid, Jr., University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Law Reform in the Ancient World: Did the Emperor A...

James Etienne Viator, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, has published Kreyol-Ye, Kadjen-Ye, E Lalwa a Langaj Dan Lalwizyann [C...

Matthew McCaffrey, University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, and Carmen Elena Dorobăt are publishing 'We Do Not Sow': T...

From Hart Publishing, a new book on the impact of the printing press on lawyers and legal culture. David J. Harvey, a New Zealand District ...

Poor Coyote. He never had a chance. The Hollywood Reporter explains why here . (Coyote really needed a good lawyer--maybe Harvey Birdman )....

Crime Culture, another blog of interest, devoted to crime and detective fiction and film and true crime in popular culture. Check it out he...

If you like crime fiction, check out this lovely site devoted to Canadian crime fiction: Crime Fiction Canada, created and maintained by P...

Efi Zemach and Omri Ben-Zvi, both at the University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, have published The Aesthetics of Contract Theory . Here is...

Irene Watson, University of South Australia School of Law, has published First Nations Stories, Grandmother's Law: Too Many Stories Too...

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference begins today at Georgetown Law School. Link here. Unfo...