November 29, 2015

Sean Cunningham on Researching Tudor Government

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Sean Cunningham, National Archives, UK,  is publishing Researching Tudor Government (Manchester University Press, 2016)(IHR Research Guides...
November 28, 2015

Mario Losano On Kelsen's Theory of International Law During His Geneva Exile

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Mario G. Losano, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, has published Kelsen's Theory on International Law During His Exile in Geneva at 28...
November 24, 2015

Anat Rosenberg On the History of Genres in Law and Literature

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Anat Rosenberg, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah, Radzyner School of Law, has published The History of Genres: Reaching for Reality...

Recht und Literature im Zwischenraum . Law and LIterature In Between: A New Volume on Law as Literature and Literature as Law

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Now available: Recht und Literatur im Zwischenraum / Law and Literature In-Between : Aktuelle inter- und transdisziplinäre Zugänge / Contem...

Neil Walker On UK Constitutional Practice and the Future of Scotland

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Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh School of Law, is publishing The Territorial Constitution and the Future of Scotland in The Scottish I...

David Rabban on the European Origins of Roscoe Pound's Sociological Jurisprudence

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David M. Rabban, University of Texas School of Law, has published Pound's Sociological Jurisprudence: European Roots and American Appli...

Jean d'Aspremont On "Bindingness"

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Jean d'Aspremont, University of Manchester School of Law, and University of Amsterdam, is publishing Bindingness in Fundamental Concept...

Larry Alexander On Legal Positivism and Originalist Interpretation

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Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law, is publishing Legal Positivism and Originalist Interpretation in the Revista Argent...
November 23, 2015

Changes in Indigenous Marriage and Indigenous Marriage Customs Before and After the Council of Trent

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Ana de Zaballa Beascoechea, Universidad del Pais Vasco, is publishing El Matrimonio Indígena Antes Y Después De Trento: Del Matrimonio Preh...

How the Law Treats Deceptive Speech

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Stuart P. Green, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Law (Newark) is publishing Lying and Law in The Oxford Hankbook of...

Imagining Criminal Responsibility In Nineteenth Century Scottish Law

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Chloe Kennedy, University of Edinburgh School of Law, is published ' Ungovernable Feelings and Passions': Common Sense Philosophy a...
November 20, 2015

Scott Shapiro's Theory of Law

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Kenneth M. Khrenberg, University of Alabama, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, is publishing Law as Plan and Artifact in volume ...

Law As Technical and Ordinary Language

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Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing Is Law a Technical Language? in the San Diego Law Review. Here is t...
November 19, 2015

The History of the Right of Title

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David J. Brennan, Federation University Australia, has published The Root of Title to Copyright in Works at 2015 Intellectual Property Qua...

Unclean: How Environmental Language and Racist Language Are Linked

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Carl Zimring, Associate Professor, the Pratt Institute , is publishing Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United Sta...

Amending Constitutions

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Heinz Klug, University of Wisconsin Law School, has published Constitutional Amendments at 11 Annual Review of Social Science 95 (2015). H...

Social Rights Constitutionalism

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Daniel M. Brinks, University of Texas, Austin, School of Law, Varun Gauri, World Bank Development Research Group, and Kyle Shen, University...

Ian Ward's "Sex, Crime and Literature In Victorian England" Now Available In Paperback

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New in paperback from Hart Publishing: Ian Ward, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England. From the publisher's website: Th...
November 18, 2015

The Legal History of Arms Litigation: The First Century

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David B. Kopel, University of Denver Sturm College of Law and Independent Institute, is publishing The First Century of Right to Arms Litig...

A Bibliographic Review of South Asian Legal History

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Mitra J. Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School, has published South Asian Legal History at 11 Annual Review of Law and Social Scienc...

Revisiting Allen Johnson's "The Constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Acts"

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Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Law, has published A Confederate History in the Yale Law Journal. He...
November 17, 2015

Superheroes, Comics, and Queer Theory

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Ramzi Fawaz is publishing The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (New York University Press, 2016). ...

Ecological Justice, Fear, and Art

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Afshin Akhtar-Khavari, Griffith University Law School, has published Fear and Ecological (In)Justice in Edvard Munch's the Scream of Na...

Alternative Forms of Currency and FInancial Crises In England in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Rural England

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Iain Frame, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent Law School, has published ‘Country Rag Merchants’ and English Local Currencies in the Late...

Foucault, Law, and the Federal School Desegregation Cases

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Gordon Hull, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Department of Philosophy, has published Equitable Biopolitics: What Federal School De...
November 16, 2015

Should We Recognize Idea Contributors As Joint Authors?

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Timothy John McFarlin, Elon University School of Law and Washington University in Saint Louis, is publishing An Idea of Authorship: Orson W...

Fashion Law Arrives In the Legal Academy

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Born a few years ago with (as far as I can tell) Susan Scafidi's fashion law course at Fordham, fashion law is now a "thing....

Various Routes Toward Describing the Cultural Studies of Law

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Naomi Mezey, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Mapping a Cultural Studies of Law in The Handbook of Law and Society 39-55 (A...

The United Kingdom and the Protection of Human Rights

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New from Hart Publishing: The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship? (Katja S. Ziegler, Elizabeth Wicks, and Loveday Hods...
November 13, 2015

Graphing Little Red Riding Hood

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Krisztina Szűcs , a Budapest-based data visualization designer, provides an interesting graphic interpretation of five different versions o...
November 12, 2015

A Look at Murder Ballads

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Kelly Kazek reviews seven Southern folk songs based on real crimes here, for AL.com. Among them: "Tom Dooley" and "Frankie ...

Legal Time

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Frederic Bloom, University of Colorado Law School and Brooklyn Law School, is publishing The Law's Clock in volume 104 of the Georgeto...
November 11, 2015

A Conference On Legal Discourse, Narrative, and Representative, March 10-11, 2016

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Via the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH), news of a conference and CFP: "On Legal Discourses, Narrratives and ...

Exception Taken: Examining Injustice In Early Modern English Literature

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New from University of Toronto Press: Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature (Donald Beec...