Law & Humanities Blog

Gregory Shaffer, University of California, Irvine, School of Law, has published The New Legal Realist Approach to International Law at 28 L...

Riaz Tejani, University of Illinois, Springfield, Department of Legal Studies, is publishing 'A Logic of Camps': French Antiracism ...

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg presided (as Chief Justice) over the Supreme Court of La Mancha in a moot court ...

A little light entertainment from Dominique Goy-Blanquet for a Shakespearean anniversary here.   More at the website here: ShakespeareAnniv...

Benito Arruñada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, has published The Institutions of Roman Markets as Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Economics and Bus...

Ken Levy, Louisiana State University Law Center, is publishing Does Situationism Excuse? The Implications of Situationism for Moral Respons...

The American Bar Association has announced the winners of the 2015 Silver Gavel Awards. Here's the text of its press release. WA...

Robert Sprague, University of Wyoming, College of Business, Kevin Grauberger, University of Wyoming, and Nicole Barberis, Bloomberg LP, hav...

Bill Sheehan of the Washington Post reviews Greg Iles ' new novel The Bone Tree here. The book, the second in a trilogy about lawyer/...

New from Ashgate: Language and Culture in EU Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Susan Sarcevic, ed.; 2015) (Law, Language, and Communicat...

Need an amusing and interesting way to explain copyright law? Or wish you understood it better yourself? Check out Bound By Law? (Tales Fro...

Ronald J. Allen, Northwestern University Law School, is publishing A Note to My Philosophical Friends About Expertise and Legal Systems in...

Andrea Dennis, University of Georgia Law School, has published Teaching The Wire: Crime, Evidence and Kids at 64 Journal of Legal Education...

Joe Berkowitz of Fast Company highlights this meshing of the worlds of Game of Thrones and the NFL. Examine Dave Rappaccio's Westero...

Ronen Perry, University of Haifa Faculty of Law; University of Oxford Faculty of Law, is publishing Pluralistic Legal Theories: In Search o...

Marie Ashe, Suffolk University Law School, and Anissa Helie, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, have published Realities of Religi...

The Hollywood Reporter notes that the fall 2015 season might bring us new legal series. Nearly every network has some kind of legal show. A...

Roger D. Billings, Jr., Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, is publishing Abraham Lincoln and the Duty of Zealous ...

Roger Kimball reviewing Barry Strauss's new book The Death of Caesar and unintended consequences here, for the New Criterion.

Shun-Ling Chen, Academia Sinica Law Institution, is publishing Exposing Professionalism in United States Copyright Law: The Disenfranchised...

More on what profs (including law profs) seem like to students, from Dinosaur Comics. Tip of the beret to Professor Steven Jamar, Institut...

Martin Edwards has published The Golden Age of Murder (Harper Collins, 2015), available both in hardcover and as a e-book.  Here's a d...

Michael Shermer on capuchin monkeys, scientists, the sense of injustice, and terrorism, here , for Scientific American.

On the May 4, 2015 episode of "2 Broke Girls," Nash's mother accuses Max of having sex with her "underaged" son, a...

Stephen M. Maurer, University of California, Berkeley, has published The Economics of Memory: How Copyright Decides Which Books Do (and Don...

A number of interesting law and magic related articles from the spring 2012 issue of Lapham's Quarterly.  Check out Lewis Lapham's...

Professor Steve Jamar (Howard Law School) suggests this comic strip (I think it's called a "tier" in the terminology of comi...

Natsu Taylor Saito, Georgia State University College of Law, is publishing Tales of Color and Colonialism: Racial Realism and Settler Colon...

Heller McAlpine reviews Eliza Kennedy's first novel, I Take You, for NPR.  Says McAlpine in part, Kennedy, a graduate of the Unive...

From Dr Honni van Rijswijk, University of Technology, Sydney, a call for papers for the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of A...

Peter Robinson, author of the Inspector Banks mystery novels , offers an appreciation of Ruth Rendell, here.

Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School, has published The Big Trial: Law as Public Spectacle (University Press of Kansas, 2015). Here is...

Robert M. Pallitto, Seton Hall University, has published In the Shadow of the Great Charter: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Magna Ca...

Crime novelist Ruth Rendell has died, her publisher Hutchinson has announced. Ms. Rendell suffered a stroke in January and was admitted to...

From Pleasure Boat Studio , two new collections of poetry: James Clarke's The Juried Heart ($17 U.S.; $20 Can.). Judge Clarke is ret...

Paul Strohm, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor at Oxford University and the Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, introduces...

James R. Maxeiner, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published A Government of Laws Not of Precedents 1776-1876: The Google Challe...

Jennifer Ann Ho (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) has published Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture (Rutgers University P...

The Hollywood Reporter covers a unique battle of the bands: with lawyer-musicians here.   This year, the event, called Law Rocks, featured ...

Dan Solove (George Washington Law, Teach Privacy ) points out that the Empire might have defeated the Rebel Alliance had it mastered data ...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, has published The Regulatory Adventure of the Two Norwood Builders: S...

Janet Mason Ellerby is publishing Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film (Univer...