April 23, 2015

A New Book On Magna Carta From Cambridge UP

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Robert Hazell and James Melton are the editors of Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy (Cambridge University Press), planned for release, Apri...

Early Soviet Property Rights Theory

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Boris N. Mamlyuk, University of Memphis School of Law, has published Early Soviet Property Law in Comparison with Western Legal Traditions ...
April 22, 2015

Images and Imagination in Theorizing About Law: A Workshop at Wolfson College, Oxford

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From Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary College, University of London, news of a workshop on images in legal scholarship, to take place at Wo...

The Impact of Alan R. Bromberg's Treatise on Securities Fraud

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Wendy Gerwick Couture, University of Idaho College of Law, is publishing Professor Alan R. Bromberg and the Scholarly Role of the Treatise ...

Assessing and Documenting Outsider Jurisprudence: The LatCrit Example

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SpearIt, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, has published Foreword: From Latcrit to Latcrit 2.0 -- Institutionaliz...

The New Deal and State Constitutional Law

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Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University, Department of Politics, is publishing State Constitutional Law in the New Deal Period in the R...

The Copyright Law and Competing Moral Claims

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Dan Hunter, Swinburne Law School & New York Law School, and Nicolas Suzor, Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law, have pub...

"Better Call Saul's" Legal Ethics

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Nicole Hyland on the legal ethics of Better Call Saul , here at Legal Talk Network.
April 21, 2015

Attention, Future Lawyers

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The Guardian has published a reader-selected list of the books those aspiring to a legal career should read. Choices include tomes on what...

European and U. S. Influences on Latin American Administrative Law

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Ricardo Perlingeiro, Universidade Federal Fluniense (UFF), has published A Historical Perspective on Administrative Jurisdiction in Latin A...
April 20, 2015

Finding Trust and Truth In Crime Fiction and Thrillers

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Val McDermid explains why crime fiction is "leftwing," thrillers are "rightwing," and that "[w]hen people lose tr...

And We Thought Game of Thrones Was Just the Wars of the Roses

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Reading (or re-reading) Game of Thrones with a Marxist gloss, here   (in the Guardian) and yes, well, perhaps not, here (in Jacobin Magaz...

Hoaxes and Frauds and Swindles, Oh, My

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Some really entertaining law-related articles in the current issue (titled "Swindle and Fraud") of Lapham's Quarterly (Spring...

The Role of the Jurist

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Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh School of Law, is publishing The Jurist in a Global Age in Methodology in the New legal World (Van Ges...

The Paradox of the Jury

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Markus D. Dubber, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published The Schizophrenic Jury and Other Palladia of Liberty: A Critical Hist...

Writing For the Lay Audience: Justice Elena Kagan's Subversive Rhetoric

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Laura Ray, Widener University School of Law, has published 'The Hindrance of a Law Degree': Justice Kagan on Law and Experience at...
April 19, 2015

Politics On Stage and Off

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Ian Youngs investigates the relationship between political plays and politics, the effect that political theater has on politics, and wheth...

Is It Better To Call Saul?

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Keith Uhlich reviews Better Call Saul for BBC Culture as the final episode of the first season airs. Read his take here.

Cicero in the Law Courts

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Jon Hall, University of Otago, New Zealand,  has published Cicero's Use of Judicial Theater with the University of Michigan Press. It ...

The Intersection of Music and Law

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Lily E. Hirsch's Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment is available in paperback from the University of Michigan Press ($30...

Abraham Drassinhower Rethinks the Basis of Copyright Law

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Abraham Drassinhower, University of Toronto, has published What's Wrong With Copying? (Harvard University Press, 2015). Here is a desc...

Examining the Foundational Ideas of the French Constitution

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David Marrani's Dynamics In the French Constitution: Decoding French Republican Ideas (Routledge, 2013) will be available in paperback...