Law & Humanities Blog

Ole W. Pedersen, Newcastle University Law School, has published The Rhetoric of Environmental Reasoning and Responses as Applied to Frackin...

W. Michael Schuster II, Oklahoma State University, has published Fair Use and Licensing of Derivative Fiction: A Discussion of Possible Lat...

Samuel Bettwy, adjunct professor of law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has published Comparative Criminal Procedure Through Film : Analyt...

At one of last week's performances of the hit play Hand to God, a member of the audience was looking for an outlet to charge his cellp...

Martin Vranken, University of Melbourne Law School, has published Western Legal Traditions: A Comparison of Civil Law and Common Law (Feder...

Newly published: Recht und Literatur im Zwischenraum / Law and Literature In-Between: Aktuelle inter- und transdisziplinäre Zugänge / Conte...

Jordan Furlong, Edge International , muses on the links between Law & Order (as delivered by Big TV) and, well, law and order (as deliv...

Mark A. Cohen , CEO of Legal Mosiac, compares lawyers and cab drivers, in this post at Bloomberg BNA's Legal Communities Blog. Mr. Co...

The Agatha Christie estate, led by Mathew Pritchard, Dame Agatha's grandson, is plotting to re-invigorate the brand by livening up the ...

Happy Birthday to Franz Kafka, born July 3, 1883 (died June 3, 1924). Law is quite the theme of Kafka's life (and death). On Wednes...

New in paperback: Comparative Law--Engaging Translation (Simone Glanert, ed.; Routledge, 2014).  In an era marked by p...

Andrea Goulet, Associate Professor of French, University of Pennsylvania, has published Legacies of the Rue Morgue:  Science, Space, and Cr...

A new law and literature journal begins publication. ANAMORPHOSIS: Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura issued volume 1, issue ...

Newly available: issue 12 of NoFo. See the table of contents below.     Editors-in-Chief: Julen Etxabe & Mónica López Lerma...

Using JSTOR . "Pick a play. Click a line. Instantly see articles on JSTOR that reference the line." This project is a cooperative...

The Comics Forum has issued a Call for Papers for its Conference to be held November 12-13, 2015 at the Leeds Central Library, Leeds (UK). ...

ICYMI: Joyce Warren, Queens College, City University of New York, has published Women, Money, and the Law, with the University of Iowa Pres...

Sam Frank discusses how surveillance leads to "noveliz[ation of] our lives." He suggests turning to literature to understand this...

Sherlock Holmes through the data, by Adam Frost and James Kynvin. Does statistical evidence takes the fun out of it for you? BTW, this ...

The rock band Coheed and Cambria sets some of Antonin Scalia's more memorable words and lines from two recent important decisions to m...

The BBC gives us a short course in the history of forensic science here. It all started with the Greeks and Romans; the word "forensi...

Orsolya Salait has published The Right to Freedom of Assembly: A Comparative Study (Hart Publishing, 2015). Here is a description of the ...

Suzanne Broderick has published Real War vs. Reel War: Veterans, Hollywood, and WWII (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). The hardcover is $30...

Danny Gittings, University of Hong Kong, College of Humanities and Law, School of Professional and Continuing Education; University of Hong...

All Souls College, Oxford University , has posted the following positions: All Souls College Senior Research Fellowships in History,...

From the Hollywood Reporter:  Michael Weston, who appeared in the series House , and Stephen Mangan will star in the new series Houdini a...

Elgar Publishing has issued Epistemic Forces in International Law: Foundational Doctrines and Techniques of International Legal Argumentat...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Fanny Hill and the 'Laws of Decency': Investigating Obscenity in ...

Michael J. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Political Science, and Rachael K. Hinkle, University at Buffalo, have publi...

Dustin A. Zacks, King, Nieves & Zacks, PLLC, has published A Response to Epstein: Honoré De Balzac's Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotte...

Bernadette A. Meyler, Stanford Law School, is publishing L aw, Literature, and History: The Love Triangle in the UC Irvine Law Review. Her...

Louisiana State University Professor of English Elisabeth "Lisi" Oliver died in a tragic accident earlier this month while walki...

Chi Luu discusses how innocuous-sounding words or phrases can actually be highly offensive language, here, for JSTOR Daily.

Professor Chad Williams, like Professor Marcia Chatelain before him, decided to use social media (specifically Twitter), to crowdsource a ...

Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published Seeing it Coming Since 1945: State Bans and Regulations of 'C...

Frederick B. Jonassen, Barry University School of Law, is publishing 'So Help Me?': Religious Expression and Artifacts in the Oath...

Among the projects incoming Houston Bar Association President Laura Gibson has slated for her term is an opera fundraiser for the Houston ...

Marc Greenberg's  Comic Art, Creativity and the Law (Elgar, 2014), will be published in paperback in August 2015 and will be priced at ...

Claire Kilpatrick, European University Institute Department of Law, has published Constitutions, Social Rights and Sovereign Debt States in...

In which the Justices quote Spiderman: What we can decide, we can undecide. But stare decisis teaches that we should exercise that au...

Gleider I. Hernandez, Durham University, is publishing The Responsibility of the International Legal Academic: Situating the Grammarian wit...