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FEMINIST FOOD STUDIES: EXPLORING INTERSECTIONALITY Canadian Scholars is consid...

Lindy Grant, University of Reading, has published Blanche of Castile, Queen of France (Yale University Press, 2017) . Here is a description...

ICYMI: James Q. Whitman, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial (Yale University Press, 2008). To be c...

ICYMI: Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, University of London, Zombies: A Cultural History (Reaktion Books, dist. University of Chicago,...

Yale University Law School's Library presented a special exhibit for the holidays: Charles Dickens as Herald of Christmas and Victorian...

ICYMI: Alexander Gillespie, The Causes of War (Hart Publishing). Volume I: 3000 BCE to 1000 CE (2013). Here is a description of the bo...

The British Legal History Conference will take place from July 5, 2017 to July 8, 2017 at University College, London, Faculty of Law. The t...

Lucy Jewel, University of Tennessee School of Law, examines how pop culture women lawyers dress, in an essay for Massachusetts Lawyers Wee...

An interesting new journal devoted to art and law: The Santander Art & Culture Law Review.   The journal is open access.  Current CFP h...

 Via @BauerStefan Shakespeare and the Pedagogies of Justice – Call For Papers Shakespeare and the Pedagogies of Justice Sha...

Have you ever wondered why those Star Trek spaceships seem to have so many malfunctions? This subreddit thread explores that question and p...

Alan Jacobs on the Inspector Morse television series, its spinoffs, and "Murder in Paradise," from The American Conservative.  Vi...

Via Marco Wan, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Editor, Law & Literature: Applications are invited for a joint appointment as ...

For The Guardian, Max Décharné, musician (Gallon Drunk, The Flaming Stars) and author (the forthcoming  Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative Hist...

Tom Lambert, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, is publishing Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 2017) . Here from the publisher...

Discovery's series Killing Fields focuses on the unsolved 1997 murder of Eugenie Boisfontaine . The series returns January 3, 2017.   ...

Thomas Mohr, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, has published The Irish Question and the Evolution of British Imperial La...

The  two AALS Law & Film selections at this year's meeting  in San Francisco are  Anatomy of a Murder,  Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.,a...

Forthcoming from Routledge Press:  The Secret Origins of Comics Studies (Matthew Smith and Randy Duncan, eds., 2017).  Here from the publis...

According to Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, Dick Wolf and NBCU are in talks with Oxygen to rebrand the network as all crime, all the ...

Harper Lee's attorney, Tonja Sheets, wants to turn Monroeville, Alabama, Ms. Lee's home town, into even more of a tourist attractio...

From the mailbox, news of a new LLM in Law and the Humanities: The Kent LLM is a one-year program that offers a chance to study law from ...

ICYMI: Julia Sun-Joo Lee has published The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel (Oxford University Press, 2012). Here from th...

ICYMI: American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature (Saul Levmore and Martha C. Nussbaum eds., Oxford University Press, 2014)....

Michael Douma, Georgetown University, is publishing How the First Ten Amendments Became the Bill of Rights in the Georgetown Journal of Law...

Federica Carugati, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ostrom Workshop, and Department of Political Science, and School of Law, and Barry R. W...

If you are interested in the podcast Serial, check out the twitter feed Serially Obsessed @SerialObsessPod and its companion podcast Seria...

The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 invites submissions for a special issue, International Intrigue:Plotting Espionage as ...

Albany Law School is hosting a Conference in Law and the Humanities March 31-April 1, 2017. The theme is The Politics of Difference and the...

Erin Blakemore writes about the obscenity trial of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary  for JSTOR Daily., discussing Christine Haynes'...

Explore the legal issues raised on the new Hulu series Shut Eye  by dipping into some of the essays and articles listed below: In Law and...

Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia, has published Law, Settler Colonialism, and 'The Forgotten Space' of Maritime Worlds...

Mauricio Garcia-Villegas, Sr., University of Wisconsin, Platteville, has published A Comparison of Sociopolitical Legal Studies at 12 Annu...

The ethics of the Death Star . Discussion at BoingBoing, from  SciFi Policy.

Via Legal History Blog CFP: History, Law and Politics in Brazil The editors of the journal,   Prima Facie ,  in conjunction with the...

Some info about The Good Wife  spinoff, The Good Fight , from Entertainment Weekly.  It will feature Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski)...

Check out this podcast from true crime writers  Rebecca Lavoie, Kevin Flynn, Toby Ball, Lara Bricker, and others. It's called Crime Wri...

Via @christianbok The nice thing about fiction is that it allows you to imagine in your mind's eye what characters look like, even th...

Via Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens Call for Papers: Captivating Criminality 4 Crime Fiction: Detection, Public and Private, Past and Pre...

Joshua E. Kastenberg, University of New Mexico School of Law, has published War Time Hysteria, 1917: Senator Miles Poindexter, 'America...

Brian G. Slocum, McGeorge School of Law, is publishing Introduction: The Nature of Legal Interpretation: What Jurists Can Learn about Legal...