Law & Humanities Blog

Volume 28 (December 2015) of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law has been published. The theme is Cartoons and Law. Here...

Lena Foljanty, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences & Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, has published ...

Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore School of Law, is publishing Graffiti Goes to the Movies: American Fictional Films Featuring Graf...

R. A. Duff, University of Minnesota School of Law & University of Stirling Department of Philosophy, and S. E. Marshall, University of ...

Jada Pinkett Smith will star in Murder Town, a new drama for ABC that A&E Studios will produce. Pinkett Smith will play Wilmington, De...

Anna Su, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Judging Religious Sincerity . Here is the abstract. Religion in law is noto...

James R. Hackney, Jr., Norheastern University School of Law, has published Judge Jack Weinstein and the Construction of Tort Law in America...

From Mihret Getabicha, JD Candidate, Class of 2017, University of Texas School of Law The Rapoport Center Human Rights Working P...

Reza Dibadj, University of San Francisco School of Law, is publishing Fashions and Methodology in Rethinking Legal Scholarship: A Transatl...

Karen Thornton, George Washington University Law School, is publishing Parsing the Visual Rhetoric of Office Dress Codes: A Two-Step Proces...

Jennifer Murphy Romig, Emory University School of Law, is publishing Legal Blogging and the Rhetorical Genre of Public Legal Writing in vo...

Re'em Segev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, is publishing Should We Prevent Deontological Wrongdoing? in Philosophical...

Carlos A. Ball, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, School of Law (Newark), is publishing Sexuality, Third-Party Harms, and the ...

Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law School, has published The Hughes Court Docket Books: The Early Terms, 1929-1933 at  40 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 10...

Mauro Gatti, University of Bologna, has published Blasphemy in European Law in On Blasphemy 49-64 (M. Diez Bosch and J. Sànchez Torrents, ...

From the University of Baltimore Legal Non-Fiction Blog: Rhymes by a Truancy Court Program Law Clerk , Kayla Faria's TCP Slam.

Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law, is publishing Cultural Heritage, Human Rights and the Privatisation o...

David Schneiderman, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published ‘Introduction’ to Red, White, and Kind of Blue? The Conservatives a...

The University Bookman reports on an October 20, 2015 event which the Federal Bar Council set up at Poets House in which four U. S. feder...

Larissa M. Katz, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Property's Sovereignty in Theoretical Inquiries in Law. Here is t...

David Lyons, Boston University, is publishing Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow, Its Assumptions and Implications in the Oxford Handboo...

Janice Richardson, Monash University Faculty of Law, is publishing Spinoza, Feminism and Privacy: Exploring an Immanent Ethics of Privacy ...

 News from Daniela Carpi, Professor at the University of Verona: The University of Copenhagen is organizing and will host an intern...

Adam Feldman, University of Southern California,  Department of Political Science, has published Blurred Lines: Merits Briefs as Templates ...

From the Guardian, news that some Judge Dredd strips featuring critiques of McDonald's and other consumer culture staples will once ag...

Marc de Werd, Professor of European law (Maastricht University) and judge in the Amsterdam Court of Appeal in the Netherlands, uses an arch...

Jeanne L. Schroeder and David Gray Carlson, both of Cardozo School of Law, have published Improve Yourself; Not the World as Cardozo Legal ...

Lena Foljanty, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences; Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, has published Legal...

Margaret M. DeGuzman, Temple University School of Law, has published The Elusive Essence of Crimes Against Humanity in For the Sake of Pre...

For those of us who think the English are dour or lack affect,, and that English lawyers are more of the same, a new book offers to change ...

Samuel L. Bray, UCLA School of Law, is publishing 'Necessary AND Proper' and 'Cruel AND Unusual': Hendiadys in the Constitu...

Elizaveta Blagodeteleva, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow), has published The French Bar and the Emerging Le...

Stacy Schiff's new book The Witches: Salem, 1692  is now out, and she discusses Salem and the topic of witchcraft with Huffington Post ...

  Martin A. Schwartz, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, has published Trial Evidence Brought to Life: Illustrations from Fam...

Stefan Sciaraffa, McMaster University, is publishing Constructed and Wild Conceptual Necessities in Contemporary Jurisprudence in volume 6...

Mark Lawson discusses the enduring importance of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure here for the Guardian. He notes, Not all observ...

Mortimer Newlin Stead Seller, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published Niccolò Machiavelli: Father of Modern Constitutionalism ...

From Julia Dehm, University of Texas School of Law: Call for Papers The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights a...