October 17, 2016

Pye on African-American Lawyers and the Civil Rights Movement Before Brown v. Board of Education

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David Kenneth Pye has published Before Civil Rights Was in Vogue: The Black Lawyer Before Brown. Here is the abstract. Scholars ...
October 16, 2016

Upcoming: A Lecture on "Comics and Human Rights: at the Radcliffe Humanities Building, Oxford, March 2, 2017 @TORCHOxford

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The TORCH  Fiction and Human Rights  and  Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form  networks are co-hosting a lecture on 'Comi...
October 14, 2016

2017 Constitutional Law Symposium at Drake University Law School, April 8, 2017 @DrakeLawSchool

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From the mailbox: Save the Date The 2017 Constitutional Law Symposium, “President Obama’s Constitutional Law Legacy” will be held...

Graduate Student Workshop at ASLCH, March 30, 2017 @Law_Cult_Huma

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From the mailbox: The 20 th  annual meeting of the Association for the study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held on March 31...
October 13, 2016

New Poetry From Monica Youn @GraywolfPress

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Via Concurring Opinions: Lawyer-poet Monica Youn has published  Blackacre  (Graywolf Press, 2016), which contains some "vaguely le...

Call For Nominations: Penny Pether Law and Language Scholarship Award 2016

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From the mailbox: Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law and Language Scholarship Award 2016   A passionate advocate for interdiscip...
October 11, 2016

Warburg Institute, University of London, Accepting Applications for Long-Term Research Fellowships in Cultural and Intellectual History

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From the mailbox: LONG-TERM RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY The Warburg Institute is the premier institut...
October 10, 2016

Law & Order: SVU, False Confessions, and Pop Culture: Analysis From @robsoncrim and Jurisculture

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A post providing analysis of false confessions in popular culture through a discussion of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . Posted to...

Webb on Slave Narratives and the Sentencing Court

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Lindsey Webb, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, is publishing Slave Narratives and the Sentencing Court in the NYU Review of Law ...

TIlburg University Establishes Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities

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From the mailbox: Tilburg University has established the annual  Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities  in order to commem...

Civil Liberties In a Time of Fear: The Japanese American Incarceration and the Threat To Muslim Americans: Panel Discussion Oct. 27, 2016 at the Japanese American National Museum

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From the mailbox: The Harvard Law School Association of Los Angeles, the Japanese American National Museum, and the Japanese American B...
October 9, 2016

A Website Devoted To Judicial Images

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Via Maks Del Mar @maksdelmar: A terrific website devoted to judicial images: Judicial Images: Production, Management, & Consumption.  ...

A Pop Culture Election: Entertainment Weekly @EW Asks Us To Vote For the Best Pop Culture U.S. President

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Entertainment Weekly offers a round robin for you to decide the "best pop culture U.S. President." There are an amazing number of...
October 8, 2016

Paul Raffield's New Book on The Art of Law In Shakespeare, Forthcoming From @hartpublishing

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Paul Raffield, University of Warwick, is publishing The Art of Law in Shakespeare (Hart Publishing, 2017). Here is a description of the bo...
October 6, 2016

Call For Papers: Pepperdine Law Review Symposium, 2017: The Supreme Court, Politics, and Reform

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From the mailbox: The Supreme Court, Politics and Reform The 2017 Pepperdine Law Review Symposium Malibu, California—April 8, 201...
October 4, 2016

Stern @ArsScripta on Coke's Institutes and the Epistemology of the String Cite

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Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Margins of Authority: Coke's Institutes and the Epistemology of the St...

Crocker on Dystopian Constitutionalism

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Thomas P. Crocker, University of South Carolina School of Law, is publishing Dystopian Constitutionalism in volume 18 of the University of...

Reid on Alexander Hamilton's Bank of the United States as the United States' First Great Constitutional Controversy

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Charles J. Reid, Jr., University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published America's First Great Constitutional Controvers...

Tamanaha on How History Bears on Jurisprudence

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Brian Z. Tamanaha, Washington University, Saint Louis, School of Law, is publishing How History Bears on Jurisprudence in Law in Theory an...
October 3, 2016

A New Book on Conan Doyle and His Most Famous Literary Creation

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Via @MichaelSimsBook and @pastoffences Michael Sims is publishing Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes (Bloomsb...
October 2, 2016

Call For Essays: Special Issue of The Space Between

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From the mailbox: The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945                         Special Issue Call for Essays ...

Call For Papers For a Special Issue of The Black Scholar

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From the mailbox: Black Liberation: From Political Thought to Political Power A Special Issue of The Black Scholar In the past 15 ...
October 1, 2016

A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on Television (Hart Publishing @hartpublishing) Will Be Available in November

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Forthcoming from Hart Publishing: A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on Television (Peter Robson and Jennifer Schulz, eds.; 201...
September 30, 2016

Berger-Walliser, Barton, and Haapio on Visualization and Legal Design

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Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, University of Connecticut, Thomas D. Barton, California Western School of Law, and Helena Haapio, University of V...

Manko on Fantasies of Selfhood in Legal Texts

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Rafał Mańko, University of Amsterdam, Centre for the Study of European Contract law (CSECL); European Parliamentary Research Service, has p...

Adler on the Pleasures of Punishment: Complicity, Spectatorship, and Abu Ghraib

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Amy Adler, New York University School of Law, has published The Pleasures of Punishment: Complicity, Spectatorship, and Abu Ghraib, in Pho...
September 28, 2016

An Early Review of the New Legal Drama "Conviction"

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Tim Goodman reviews the new ABC legal drama Conviction for The Hollywood Reporter. For him  this law procedural is derivative and repetit...

Bandes @BandesSusan on What Executioners Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Death Penalty

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Susan A. Bandes, DePaul University College of Law, is publishing What Executioners Can -- And Cannot -- Teach Us About the Death Penalty in...

Edwards on The Humanities in the Law School Curriculum

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Linda H. Edwards, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law, is publishing The Humanities in the Law School Curriculum: Courtship and ...

The Toothsome Delights of Vampires

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The Telegraph discusses a new edition of Christopher Frayling's landmark Vampyres , and notes that the belief in vampires has been wit...

Nicolas Dissaux's New Book on Law, Literature, and Anatole France

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Via Arnaud Coutant, Professor of Law, University of Rheims: Nicolas Dissaux, Professor, Université de Lille, has published Anatole France,...

Rosenbury @UFLawDean on Mary Jo Frug's Life, Work, and Scholarly Impact

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Laura A. Rosenbury, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, is publishing Channeling Mary Joe Frug in volume 50 of the New England La...

Kramer on Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine

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Matthew H. Kramer, Churchill College, Cambridge University; University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, has published There's Nothing Qua...
September 27, 2016

Munzer on Secularization, Anti-MInority Sentiment, and Cultural Norms in the German Circumcision Controversy

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Stephen R. Munzer, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, has published Secularization, Anti-Minority Sentiment, and Cultura...

Dennis @ProfALDennis on Black Contemporary Social Movements, Resource Mobilization, and Black Musical Activism

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Andrea Dennis, University of Georgia Law School, is publishing Black Contemporary Social Movements, Resource Mobilization, and Black Musica...

Klaus Stierstorfer and Daniela Carpi's New Book on Diaspora, Law, & Literature

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New in October: Diaspora, Law and Literature (Klaus Stierstorfer and Daniela Carpi, eds., DeGruyter, 2016) (Law & Literature; 12) . He...

Daniela Carpi and Marett Leiboff's New Book on Fairy Tales in a Legal Context

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New:  Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context (Daniela Carpi and Marett Leiboff, eds., DeGruyter, 2016) (Law & Literature; 13...