September 12, 2016

AALS Annual Meeting: The 2017 AALS Law and Film Series Selections Are...

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Information via @rockandrollprof:  As in prior years, AALS is sponsoring the showing of two wonderful films at the Annual Meeting. Below...
September 8, 2016

Kamp on the English Origins of the Second Amendment

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Allen R. Kamp, The John Marshall Law School, has published The English Legacy of the Second Amendment — History and Myth . Here is the abst...

Meyer @pmeyer6104 on The Uses of Comedy In the Courtroom

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Check out Philip Meyer's new ABA Journal column "Don't Underestimate the Value of Comedy in the Courtroom." Link here .

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law: Volume 29, Number 3, Is Now Available

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Table of Contents with links to the articles here. As usual, many of interest, including Judges as Readers, Authors and D...

"Paradise Lost" as a Discussion of Early Modern Legal Justice

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Alison A. Chapman, Professor of English, University of Alabama, Birmingham, has published The Legal Epic: “Paradise Lost” and the Early Mod...

Law and the Modern Mind

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Concurring Opinions features discussion of a recent symposium centered on Susanna Blumenthal's Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness a...

Call For Papers: Tilburg Law Review's Special Issue, Fall 2017: "Translating Law"

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Via Twitter @ C_Bouteligier Call for Papers Tilburg Law Review: 'Translating Law' Tilburg Law Review (TiLR) ...

Hertogh and Kurkchiyan on the Existence of a Common European Legal Culture

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Marc Hertogh, University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, and Marina Kurkchiyan, University of Oxford, Wolfson College, are publishing 'Wh...
September 6, 2016

More Law and Star Trek: The Practicality of the Prime Directive (via @arstechnica)

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ArsTechnica investigates whether the Prime Directive could ever be a universal rule of law. Here, with lawyers!

van Domselaar on The Perceptive Judge

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Iris van Domselaar, University of Amsterdam, has published The Perceptive Judge . Here is the abstract. Up until today the way judges per...

Stern @ArsScripta on Narrative in the Legal Text: Judicial Opinions and Their Narratives

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Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Narrative in the Legal Text: Judicial Opinions and Their Narratives in Na...
September 3, 2016

A New Book on Authors, Copyright, and Celebrity

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Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara, has published Authors in Court: Scenes From the Theater of Copyright (Harvard Universit...
September 1, 2016

Who Ya Gonna Call?

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What is  the rebooted Ghostbusters  about? In a review for The Scholarly Kitchen, Joseph Esposito views it as  actually about academic peer...

A New Book On Murder Ballads From University of Kentucky Law Professor Richard Underwood

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University of Kentucky law professor Richard H. Underwood has published CrimeSong: True Crime Stories From Southern Murder Ballads (Shadela...

Bruncevic @doctorbruncevic Publishing Book With Routledge on Law, Art, and the Commons

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Forthcoming from Routledge: Merima Bruncevic, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg, is publishing Law, Art and the Commons (Novemb...

Sharafi @mjsharafi On Parsi Legal History In Film and Fiction

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Worth a read: an interesting post on Parsi legal history in film and fiction from the website of University of Wisconsin law prof and lega...
August 31, 2016

Justin Trudeau, Marvel Comics Superhero

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Marvel Comics is introducing a new superhero: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He's the second member of his family to make an a...

Mike Pence: Cartoonist

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From the ABA Journal: discussion of Mike Pence's law school career as a cartoonist. More here from the Washington Post. Some are criti...
August 30, 2016

NBC Commissions Pilot Based On Marcia Clark's Novel "Blood Defense"

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NBC has commissioned a pilot (and very likely a series) based on former L.A. prosecutor Marcia Clark's novel Blood Defense (Thomas and...
August 29, 2016

Jensen on E. B. White As Writer

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Erik M. Jensen, Case Western Reserve School of Law, is publishing E. B. White Could Nod Too: Thoughts Occasioned by Reading 'Death of a...

Weisberg on What Remains "Real" about the Law and Literature Movement: A Global Appraisal

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Richard Weisberg, Cardozo School of Law, is publishing What Remains 'Real' About the Law and Literature Movement? A Global Appraisa...
August 27, 2016

Plagiarism on "Criminal Minds"

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Plagiarism Today discusses the issue of plagiarism as it appears in pop culture on "The Gathering," an episode of the series Crim...
August 26, 2016

Call For Papers: Art In Law In Art Conference, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, July 4-5, 2017

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From the mailbox: We are pleased to announce that The University of Western Australia Law School will host the Art in Law in Art Confe...

Call For Papers: Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Special Issue Spring 2018: Law and Literature from the Global South

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From the mailbox: Call for Papers The Journal of Commonwealth andPostcolonial Studies Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literat...
August 25, 2016

CBS, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Rauch, and a New Legal Drama

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Jennifer Lopez and Michael Rauch ( Royal Pains) are offering CBS a legal drama featuring identical twins who don't get along outside t...
August 23, 2016

Robert Durst Docudrama In the Works at Lifetime

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Lifetime is working on a tv movie about the life and crimes of Robert Durst, who was the subject of the HBO documentary Jinx . The Lifetime...

Liebowitz on the Payment of British Authors in 19th Century America

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Stan J. Liebowitz, University of Texas, Dallas, School of Management, Department of Finance & Managerial Economics, has published Parad...

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Intoxication, Discourse, and Practice, September 30-October 1, 2016, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield

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Via Legal History Blog : Interdisciplinary Workshop on Intoxication, Discourse, and Practice, Friday 30th September and Saturday 1st Octo...

Of Intellectual Disability and the Death Sentence

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From the New York Times: In Moore v. Texas, No. 15-797 , the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the question of mental capacity and whether a...

Yoon on Academic Tenure

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Albert Yoon, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Academic Tenure at 13 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 428 (2016). Here...

Spiro On Dual Citizenship

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Peter J. Spiro, Temple University School of Law, has published At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship (Introduct...
August 22, 2016

A Review Essay For the TV Show "The Wire," Courtesy of Shawn Peters @shfrpeters

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Shawn W. Peters offers a review essay devoted to the tv show  The Wire   here .

Cameron on Thomas Healy's "The Great Dissent:" Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Abrams Decision

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Jamie Cameron, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind – And Changed the Histo...

Which Famous Detective Are You?

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Above the Law has posted this quiz for you to " to find out which famous detective you are ." Note: at the end you will need to ...

A Conference on Feminist Legal Theory and Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law, March 30-31, 2017

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From the mailbox: CALL FOR PAPERS  APPLIED FEMINISM AND INTERSECTIONALITY:  EXAMINING LAW THROUGH THE LENS OF MULTIPLE IDENTITIES...
August 19, 2016

Fenster on Legal Intellectual History

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Mark Fenster, University of Florida College of Law, has published Mr. Peabody's Improbable Legal Intellectual History at 64 Buffalo La...

A New Version of "Witness for the Prosecution" May Be Headed For the Screen

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Ben Affleck may remake Witness for the Prosecution for Fox, according to the Hollywood Reporter.  Billy Wilder famously made the Agatha C...

Monti on "Interdisciplinary" Legal Studies and the Emergence of New Academic Teachings: A Research Project on Law Courses in 19th-20th Century Italy

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Annamaria Monti, Bocconi University Department of Law, has published 'Interdisciplinary' Legal Studies and the Emergence of New Aca...

Moyn @samuelmoyn on Legal Theory Among the Ruins: In Search of Contemporary Legal Thought

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Samuel Moyn, Harvard University, is publishing Legal Theory among the Ruins in In Search of Contemporary Legal Thought (Justin Desautels-S...
August 18, 2016

Of Note: A New Journal, Politics and Poetics

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From the mailbox: news of a new peer-reviewed journal, Politics and Poetics , with a focus on philosophy.  Volume 1 (2014/2015), devoted ...

Law and Society Association 2017 Annual Meeting Will Be in Mexico City, June 20-23, 2017: The Theme Is Walls, Borders, and Bridges

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The Law and Society Association has announced its theme for the 2017 meeting: Walls, Borders, and Bridges: Law and Society in an Inter-Conn...
August 17, 2016

Re-Examining the Jon-Benet Ramsey Case

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Via THR, CBS is working on a docuseries about the Jon-Benet Ramsey case . The six-year-old was found dead in the basement of her Boulder, C...

Sloan and Starger @ColinStarger on Metaphor and Legal Research

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Amy E. Sloan and Colin P. Starger, both of the University of Baltimore School of Law, are publishing New Wine in Old Wineskins: Metaphor an...
August 16, 2016

A Film About Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Electricity To Hit the Big Screen

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IP nerds take note: Graham Moore's novel The Last Days of Night,   which dramatizes Thomas Edison's battle with George Westinghouse...
August 15, 2016

Graber on State Constitutions as National Constitutions

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Mark Graber, University of Maryland School of Law, is publishing State Constitutions as National Constitutions in the Arkansas Law Review....

Cameron on Dialogue in Charter Interpretation

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Jamie Cameron, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published Collateral Thoughts on Dialogue's Legacy as Metaphor and Theory: A Favourite from...
August 11, 2016

Olree on Madison's Vision of Religious Liberty

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Andy G. Olree, Faulkner University School of Law, has published A Madisonian Vision of Religious Liberty at 7 Faulkner Law Review 19 (2015...

Galic, Timan, and Koops on Bentham, Deleuze, and Beyond: An Overview of Surveillance Theories From the Panopticon to Participation

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Maša Galič, Tjerk Timan, and Bert-Jaap Koops, all of Tilburg University, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, have published...

A New Blog Devoted To Legal History Makes Its Debut

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Three legal historians have launched a new blog devoted to, appropriately enough, legal history: Legal History Miscellany .  Sara M. Butl...

Allen on Doctrine as a Disruptive Practice.

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Jessie Allen, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Doctrine as a Disruptive Practice as University of Pittsburgh Legal St...