September 16, 2015

Call For Panelists: 23rd International Conference of Europeanists

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From James R. Martel: 23 rd  International Conference of Europeanists Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA April 14-16, 2016 Call f...
September 15, 2015

U. S. Lawyers and Their Ideologies

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Adam Bonica, Stanford Univesrity Department of Political Science, Adam S. Chilton, University of Chicago Law School, and Maya Sen, Harvard ...

The Prince of Denmark Could Be Retried For Murder of Polonius

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Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin presided over the Crown's appeal in Hamlet's trial for the murder of Poloni...
September 14, 2015

Call for Papers, 2016 Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop

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From Susan S. Heinzelman, University of Texas, Austin: CALL FOR PAPERS – 2016 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop Columb...

To All the Lawyer Poets (and Other Poets Out There)-- Call For Papers: American Poetry Imagines the Law

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Via James R. Martel: CFP for panel: American Poetry Imagines the Law Shelley’s pronouncement in his Defense of Poetry that “poets are th...

Making Constitutions

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Stephen Gardbaum, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, has published Revolutionary Constitutionalism as UCLA School of La...

David Foster Wallace and the Mysterious World of Tax Law

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Arthur J. Cockfield, Queen's University Faculty of Law, has published David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy, How to Be an Adult, and Other...

The Ubiquity of Crime in Popular Culture

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Rachel M. A. Spencer, University of South Australia School of Law, has published "Crime," in Law and Popular Culture 81 (M De Zw...

Declining Public Support For Bans On Handguns

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Nelson Lund, George Mason School of Law, has published Public Opinion and the Second Amendment at 5 Journal of Law 87 (2015). Here is the ...

Whence Cometh the Legal Notion of "The Reasonable Person"?

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Another publication from the amazingly productive Simon Stern at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. R. v. Jones (1703): The Origin...
September 11, 2015

The History of the North Carolina Eugenics Movement

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Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, School of Law, and Elizabeth Lea Troutman (Independent Scholar), have pu...

What's Right With Law Reviews

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Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School, is publishing In Praise of Law Reviews (And Jargon-Filled, Academic Writing) in the Michigan Law Rev...
September 10, 2015

Historical Arguments and Federal Jurisprudence

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Amanda L. Tyler, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, is publishing Assessing the Role of History in the Federal Courts Canon...

Praise As a Legal Tool To Induce Behavior

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Ezra Goldschlager, University of La Verne College of Law, is publishing Praise and the Law in the Creighton Law Review (forthcoming). Here...

Appropriation of Native American Culture

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Angela Riley, University of California, Los Angeles, and Kristen A. Carpenter, University of Colorado Law School, are publishing Owning Red...

The Ethics of TV's "Bad Judge"

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Taylor Simpson-Wood, Barry University School of Law, has published The Rise and Fall of Bad Judge: Lady Justice is No Tramp . Here is the a...
September 9, 2015

A Look at Latinos In Film, On TV, and In Music

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Michael Olivas , University of Houston Law Center, on Latino/Latina film history and culture: New Insights Into Latino Film History--and th...

Call For Applications: Law Center Dean, LSU

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From Louisiana State University: Call for Applications LAW CENTER DEAN Paul M. Hebert Law Center Louisiana State University Louisiana S...

The Ratification of the Constitution and Original Intent

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Jack M. Balkin, Yale University Law School, is publishing The Construction of Original Public Meaning in Constitutional Commentary (2016)....

The Treatment of Muslims in Society

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Isam M. Shihada, Al Aqsa University, is publishing The Backlash of 9/11 on Muslims in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in t...

Supreme Court Justices and Literature

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Scott Dodson and Amy A. Dodson, both of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, have published Literary Justice at 18 G...
September 8, 2015

Legal History and Rules of Succession In "Game of Thrones"

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Jaakko Husa, University of Lapland Faculty of Law, has published Exploring Imaginative Legal History: The Legalism of the House Stark in th...

ACS Second Annual Constitutional Law Scholars Forum, Barry University School of Law Call For Papers

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From Barry University School of Law: CALL FOR PAPERS ACS Second Annual Constitutional Law Scholars Forum  FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016, ...