Law & Humanities Blog
A blog about law, the humanities, and popular culture
October 12, 2015
Are Women Inherently "Better" Leaders?
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Catherine Powell, Fordham University School of Law, has published What if Women Ran the World – Would it be a Better Place?: International ...
Machiavelli and the Nature of Law Practice
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David Barnhizer, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, has published The Moral Lawyer and the Machiavellian Nature of Law Practice as Clevela...
Teaching Administrative Law In the First Year Curriculum
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Kevin M. Stack, Vanderbilt University School of Law, has published Lessons from the Turn of the Twentieth Century for First-Year Courses on...
Re-Interpreting Blackstone
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Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, is publishing Adelaide's Blackstone ...
Reading the Character of Atticus Finch in "Go Set a Watchman"
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Allen Mendenhall, Auburn University, has published Children Once, Not Forever: Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman and Growing Up in volume...
Mark Lemley and Machiavelli
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Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky College of Law, has published Machiavellian Intellectual Property . Here is the abstract. In his co...
October 9, 2015
Thinking Philosophically About Property
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Manuel R. Vargas, University of San Francisco School of Law and College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, is publishing Conte...
October 8, 2015
Some New Posts From John Denvir
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Two new posts from John Denvir at his blog, Guile Is Good, The Heart As Well as the Head and The Price of Innocence.
Comparing Chinese and Western Approaches To Valuing Love and Law
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Xiangyang Qian, University of Edinburgh, has published Love Beyond Law: A Chinese/Western Contrast on Law and Emotion. Here is the abstrac...
Pope Francis and the Natural Environment
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John Copeland Nagle, Notre Dame Law School, is publishing Pope Francis, Environmental Anthropologist , in volume 28 of the Regent Universit...
The Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Ius Naturae et Gentium
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Janne Elisabeth Nijman, Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam, is publishing Grotius’ Imago Dei Anthropology: Gro...
October 7, 2015
Constitutional Review In Europe
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Now available in paperback from Hart Publishing: Maartje de Visser, Constitutional Review in Europe: A Comparative Analysis (hardcover, 2...
The Origins of the Confidence Man
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The late Jean Braucher, University of Arizona College of Law, and Barak Orbach, University of Arizona, are publishing Scamming: The Misunde...
October 6, 2015
Call For Student Papers, Writing Competition On Dispute Resolution
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From Stacie I. Strong, University of Missouri: A student writing competition is being organized in conjunction with the annual symposium ...
Fault-Based Norms, Legal Standards, and Conduct
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Bruno Deffains, Université Paris 2 Panthéon Assas, and Claude Fluet, University of Quebec, Montreat (UQAM) have published Social Norms and ...
October 5, 2015
A Workshop On the Role of Language, Linguistics, and Translation In Developing Precedent In EU Law
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From Karen McAuliffe, University of Exeter, news of a one-day workshop on "Precedent in EU Law: The Linguistic Aspect," to ...
Legal Narrative, Civil Rights, and the Constitution
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Linda L. Berger, University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law, is publishing The Color-Blind Constitution: Choosing a Story to Live By in...
Representations of Harm In Law and Narrative
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Honni Van Rijswijk, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law, is publishing Encountering Law's Harm Through Literary Critique: A...
October 2, 2015
An October Workshop on Law and Humanities at the University of Warwick
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From Illan rua Wall at the Critical Legal Thinking Blog, news about the upcoming Scenes of Unrest: Law and Humanities Dissent Workshop, sc...
October 1, 2015
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Pragmatism
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Allen Mendenhall, Auburn University, is publishing Pragmatism on the Shoulders of Emerson: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s Jurisprudence as...
Prosecuting and Defending "Enemies of the State"
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Carole I. McCartney, Northumbria University; University of Leeds, School of Law; Bond University; and Clive Walker, University of Leeds, Ce...
September 30, 2015
Why Mysteries Haunt Us
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David Gramm, via the Arts & Letters Daily, on the enduring qualities of the best mystery and detective stories. Says Mr. Gramm, Th...
September 29, 2015
The Statute of Northampton and Carrying Weapons In Public
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Clayton E. Cramer, College of Western Idaho, has published The Statute of Northampton (1328) and Prohibitions on the Carrying of Arms . Her...
The Definitions of Terrorism
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Ben Saul, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, is publishing Defining Terrorism: A Conceptual Minefield in The Oxford Handbook of Terroris...
September 28, 2015
The Judicial Voice and the Analysis of Legal Opinions
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Andrea L. McArdle, CUNY School of Law, has published Understanding Voice: Writing in a Judical Context at 20 Legal Writing 189 (2015). Her...
September 25, 2015
Call For Submissions: Constitutional Studies
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From Mark Graber, on behalf of Howard Schweber: Call for Submissions Constitutional Studies invites submissions. The journal seeks work ...
Another "Best Of" From Scribes
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Gerald Lebovits, Columbia University Law School; Fordham University School of Law; New York University School of Law; New York Law School, ...
September 24, 2015
Historical Explanations and Counterfactual History
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Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School, is publishing Historical Explanations Always Involve Counterfactual History in the Journal of Philo...
The Right To Truth As a Human Right
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Dermot Groome, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, has published The Right to Truth: The Evolution of a Right . Here is ...
September 23, 2015
A New Book On Cesare Beccaria and His Relationship To the American Revolution
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John D. Bessler has published The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution (Carolina Academic Press, 2015)...
The Green Bag Publishes a "Micro-Symposium": Studies of the Supreme Court Justices and Their Work
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Ross E. Davies, et al., have published Micro-Symposium: Top Ten Rankings of the U.S. Supreme Court at 18 Green Bag 2d, 2015. Here is the a...
"Twilight" As Representation of Victimization and Violence
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Susan L. Brody, The John Marshall Law School, has published Twilight: The Unveiling of Victims, Stalking, and Domestic Violence at 21 Card...
September 22, 2015
The Islamic Tradition, the Arts, and Freedom of Expression
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Eleni Polymenopoulou, Brunel University London, is publishing A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Earth: Artistic Freedom, Cultural Heritage and Is...
How Ronald Reagan Communicated
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New post from John Denvir's Guile Is Good blog on Ronald Reagan, the "Great Communicator." More here.
September 21, 2015
Law and Literature: Censorship, Democracy, and Human Rights, a Conference at the Faculty of Law, Espirito Santo, October 21-23, 2015
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From our friend Jose Calvo, University of Malaga, an announcement of an interesting conference, Law and Literature: Censorship, Democracy, ...
The Origins and History of Land Registration In Scotland
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Kenneth Reid, University of Edinburgh School of Law, is publishing From Registration of Deeds to Registration of Title: A History of Land R...
A New Use For the Old Bailey Proceedings: The History of Linguistics
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Magnus Huber, Department of English, University of Giessen, notes at the blog Varieng that The Old Bailey Corpus provides digitzed tr...
The Rights of Privacy and Publicity
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Samantha Barbas, SUNY Buffalo School of Law, has published Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America (Stanford University Press, 2015...
How the Supreme Court Works: A New Explanation From Cass Sunstein
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Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School, has published Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes (Oxford University P...
American Journal of Legal History Relaunched; Gets New Editorial Team
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News from the Faculty Lounge Alfred Brophy and Stefan Vogenauer are the co-editors of the American Journal of Legal History, and Roman Hoy...
Conscience In the Datasphere
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Stephen Humphreys, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), is publishing Conscience in the Datasphere in volume 6 of Hum...
September 20, 2015
Fun For Tax Law Nerds
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A crossword puzzle for tax law nerds , courtesy of Tax Notes. Via my colleague Phil Hackney @EOTaxProf. I'm classing this sort of ...
September 18, 2015
Pragmatics and Law
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Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published Law's 'Way of Words': Pragmatics and Textualist Error...
The Supreme Court's Civil Rights Jurisprudence and Competing Narratives
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Peggy Cooper Davis, New York University Law School, Aderson Bellegarde Francois, Howard University School of Law, and Colin P. Starger, Uni...
September 17, 2015
Some Considerations on "Go Set a Watchman" From John Denvir
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John Denvir has published a post on Go Set a Watchman here at his blog Guile Is Good.
Mining the Trial Reports of the Connecticut Colony
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Jon C. Blue, a New Haven District Superior Court Judge, has published The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Col...
The American Constitutional Identity
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Oz Bassok, European University Institute Department of Law, is publishing Interpretative Theories as Roadmaps to American Identity in Glob...
Movies With an International Legal Slant
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Lyo Louis-Jacques at the University of Chicago has posted this list of movies dealing with international legal issues to the International ...
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