Law & Humanities Blog

New: Call for Papers: Metaphor in Language and Argumentation  Call for papers - Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio www.rifl.u...

Adrienne Stone, Melbourne Law School, and Elisa Arcioni, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, have published Australian Constitutional Cult...

Call For Papers 2016: One day left for submissions to the 2016 Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop PLEASE NOTE:   THE DEA...

Pietro Faraguna, University of Ferrara Faculty of Law, has published Regulating Religion in Italy: The Constitution Does (Not) Matter . Her...

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Jerome Frank, Lon Fuller, and a Romantic Pragmatism as Virginia Pub...

David Schneiderman, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Multiculturalism in Canadian Constitutional Culture: Domesticating ...

Gabriel Hallevy, Ono Academic College, Faculty of Law, has published Culture Offenses Instead of Cultural Defense – Criminalization of Oppr...

Roy Kreitner, Tel Aviv University, Anat Rosenberg, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliyah-Radzyner School of Law, and Christopher Tomlins, Uni...

Jean D'Aspremont, University of Manchester School of Law and University of Amsterdam, has published Methodology as a chapter in his bo...

Catherine Bond, University of New South Wales, and Graham Greenleaf, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, have published Copyrigh...

Available this month from Routledge: Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art (Jeffrey Ian Ross, ed., 2016). Here is a description of...

From LegalITInsider: While David Bowie was still David Jones, he had a day job at Legastat (litigation support) (in London, near Lincoln...

Via the wonderful blog Graphic Justice: Call for papers: Graphic Justice Theme for SLSA 2016 Graphic Justice Convenor: Thomas G...

Guido Rossi, University of Edinburgh, is publishing Insurance in Elizabethan England: The London Code (Cambridge University Press, 2016)(Ca...

Forthcoming: Thomas Faulkner, Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages: The Frankish leges in the Carolingian Period (Cambridge Universit...

Lieve Gies, University of Leicester, has published Mediating Human Rights: Media, Culture and Human Rights Law (Routledge, 2015). Here is a...

Forthcoming from Routledge in March 2016: Cultural Studies and the 'Juridical Turn': Culture, Law, and Legitimacy in the Era of Ne...

Carmen M. Cusack, Nova Southeastern University, is publishing Use of the Word 'Fuck' in Pedagogy and Higher Learning in volume 8 of...

Richard Albert, Boston College Law School and Yale University Law School, is publishing The Progressive Era of Constitutional Amendment in...

The University of Alabama Law School announces this year's competition for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. More here at the web...

Karen J. Sneddon, Mercer Law School, is publishing Not Your Mother's Will: Gender, Language, and Wills , in volume 98 of the Marquette ...

Bernard Jackson, University of Manchester, has published Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth: A Syntagmatic Reading. Here is the abstrac...

Aliza Cover, University of Idaho College of Law, is publishing Archetypes of Faith: How Americans See, and Believe in, Their Constitution ...

Tim Crouch is directing a play at the Northampton Royal and Derngate Theatre that includes all 74 human deaths in Shakespeare--the play om...

Kyle Kirkup, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Review of Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary , by Ummni Kha...

Martha Bailey, Queen's University Faculty of Law, is publishing The Marriage Law of Jane Austen's World in volume 36 of Persuasion...

Another interesting ABA Journal gallery: Romance novelists with law degrees. Start here.

The ABA Journal's choice of ten top lawyers in comics. I love the idea, though I'm not crazy about the format. I really dislike ha...

Patti McCarthy, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pacific, explores the attraction of Star Wars  at theconversation.com.

The Guardian points out that Victorian literature isn't as buttoned up as we usually think. There's a lot of sex in those ninetee...

The Guardian asked its readers to design book covers for Agatha Christie's mysteries. Here are some of the results.

Noah Berlatsky weighs in on the controversy over a black Hermione in the play " Harry Potter and the Cursed Child " here, for th...

William A. Edmundson, Georgia State University College of Law, is publishing Charlie Hebdo Meets Utility Monster in The Critique. Here is ...

Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of History, has publishe...

From the website of the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Copyright and the Circulation of Knowledge du 7 octobre 2016 au 8 octobre 2016 ...

Cultural studies are in the spotlight with the release of the newest Star Wars film.  According to a new study from Thomson-Reuters, nearl...

David DesBaillets, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Faculty of Law; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, has published Symbolism a...

Repost and Reminder: NO FOUNDATIONS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF LAW AND JUSTICE No Foundations is currently accepting general sub...

Ken Levy, Louisiana State University Law Center, and Alex S. Cohen, Louisiana State University, have published Commentary on Szmukler: Ment...

Gregory S. Gordon, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, has published International Criminal Law's 'Oriental Pre-Bi...

Desmond Manderson, ANU Colege of Law, ANU COllege of Arts and Social Sciences, and McGill University Faculty of Law, and Honni Van Rijswijk...

Justin H. Dabner, James Cook University, Cairns Campus, has published Multiculturalism and Legal Plurality in Australia. Here is the abstr...

Emily C. Torstveit Ngara, University of Baltimore School of Law, is publishing Aliens, Aggravated Felons and Worse: When Words Breed Fear a...

John M. Kang, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published Fractured Manliness in volume 13 of the Seattle Journal for Social Justic...

Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli, McGill University Faculty of Law and Department of Political Science, and Lawrence David, McGill University Fac...