Law & Humanities Blog

People have been tweeting that "backwards and high heels" line from President Obama's speech about Hillary Clinton last night...

Yesterday was an historic day for the United States. One of the U.S.'s two major political parties nominated a woman as its Presidenti...

Ralf Michaels, Duke University School of Law, is publishing Law and Recognition — Towards a Relational Concept of Law in Pursuit of Plural...

Paul T. Babie, University of Adelaide, School of Law, is publishing Australia in the Encyclopedia of Law and Religion (2016). Here is the ...

Damir Banović, University of Sarajevo, has published Identity Politics and Legal Recognition. Here is the abstract. The article gives a...

The new website for the Association of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is up. Visit it here. The 2017 meeting will be held at Stanford S...

Luka Burazin, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, has published Practical Concepts of Law as Artifact Kind in volume 3/4 of Pravni vjesn...

Aristides N. Hatzis, University of Athens, Department of Philosophy & History of Science; Faculty of Law; Athens University of Economic...

Melissa Crouch, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, is publishing Promiscuity, Polygyny and the Power of Revenge: The Past and F...

I am plagiarizing heavily from the Savannah Law Review's announcement of its September 2016 colloquium examining the influence of ficti...

Mario Ricca, University of Parma, has published The Intercultural Use of Human Rights and Legal Chorology . Here is the abstract. The ess...

John R. Morss, Deakin University Law School, has published ‘Call Me Ahab’: On Gender and Culture in International Legal Theory. Here is th...

Luke Norris, Columbia University Law School, is publishing Constitutional Economics: Lochner, Labor, and the Battle for Liberty in the Yal...

Philip Meyer on "Hamilton" and the power of narrative, here, for the ABA Journal.

F. Jay Dougherty, Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), is publishing The Misapplication of 'Mastermind': A Mutant Species of Work for H...

Patricia Branco, Universidade de Coimbra, Centre for Social Studies (CES), is publishing Courthouses as Spaces of Recognition, Functionalit...

John M. Kang, St. Thomas University School of Law, is publishing Prove Yourselves: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Obsessions of Manliness in...

Natasha Bakht and Lynda Margaret Collins, both of the University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, have published The Earth is Our Mother: Fre...

Is this a first? A real life law prof is a character in a theatrical production. We've had Supreme Court Justices in opera (Ruth Bader ...

James A. Leitzel, University of Chicago, has published The Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum. Here is the abstract. In the e...

Mario Ricca, University of Parma, has published Errant Law: Spaces and Subjects . Here is the abstract. The essay addresses the followin...

Eric Barendt has published Anonymous Speech (Hart Publishing, 2016). Here is a description of the book's contents from the publisher...

Deborah S. Gordon, Drexel University School of Law, is publishing Mor[t]ality and Identity: Wills, Narratives, and Cherished Possessions i...

The USA Network has once again delayed the premiere of its crime drama Shooter , this time until fall. This time the network cited yet more...

From the mailbox: REGISTRATION OPEN FOR CENTRAL STATES LAW SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE Registration is now open  for the ...

John Denvir's latest post from Guile Is Good : this one on Better Call Saul 's Jimmy McGill and signs that his tenure at Davis ...

John A. Lovett, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, is publishing Professor Longhair's Legacy: A Comparative Perspective on R...

Martijn W. Hesselink, University of Amsterdam, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), has published Private Law and the Eur...

Writer Attica Locke has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her novel  Pleasantville.  The American Bar Association and the Univ...

Michael Weatherly ( NCIS ) stars in the legal drama Bull  for CBS this fall . The show is inspired by Phil McGraw's career as a trial ...

Reinhard Zimmermann, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, has published Kulturelle Prägung des Erbrechts? (...

Hershey H. Friedman, City University of New York (CUNY), Department of Business Management, has published Talmudic Arguments: The Use of In...

Daniel J. Hulsebosch, New York University School of Law, is publishing English Liberties Outside England: Floors, Doors, Windows, and Ceili...

Now available: Law, Memory, Violence: Uncovering the Counter-Archive (Stewart Motha and Honni van Rijswijk, eds.; Routledge, 2016). Here...

ICYMI: Casey Charles, Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture (Routledge, 2012). Here is a descr...