January 31, 2017

Joshua Tate Speaks on Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forests at LSU

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Via Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Fred H. Frey Professor of  History, LSU: The   Modern   History   Colloquium presents a lecture by Profes...

Sixth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling, Washington DC

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Via Legal Scholarship Blog : Sixth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling – Washington D.C. American University’s Washingto...

Roland Barthes Explains Donald Trump

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James McWilliams recommends Roland Barthes' classic Mythologies  to decipher Donald Trump . More here in his essay for Pacific Standar...
January 30, 2017

Forthcoming from Hart Publishing: Heritage, Culture, and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses @hartpublishing

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Forthcoming from Hart Publishing: Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses (Andrea Durbach and Lucas Lixinski, eds.; 20...

Forthcoming From Hart Publishing in Paperback: Justin O'Brien's The Triumph, Tragedy, and Lost Legacy of James M. Landis @hartpublishing

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Forthcoming in paperback from Hart Publishing: Justin O'Brien, The Triumph, Tragedy and Lost Legacy of James M Landis: A Life on Fire ...

Kamali on Law and Equity in a Medieval English Manor Court

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Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School, has published Law and Equity in a Medieval English Manor Court in Texts and Contexts in Legal H...
January 26, 2017

Riverdale, a New Archie Series, Debuts On the CW @thecw @CW_Riverdale

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The Hollywood Reporter reviews Riverdale,  an updated, reinterpreted version of Archie and his friends. In this CW series, K. J. Apa, who p...

Anka Muhlstein's New Book "The Pen and the Brush" Explores the Link Between Art and Literature

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From the New York Review of Books: February 13, 2017,  7 pm—8 pm The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Ninete...

We Were Told There'd Be Cake @plagiarismtoday @dorfonlaw

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Diane Klein, University of La Verne College of Law, discusses the interesting Case of the Copycat Cake here  (from Plagiarism Today, cross-...

Jimenez on a Borgean Theory of Constitutional Interpretation

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ICYMI: Marco Jimenez, Stetson University College of Law, published Towards a Borgean Theory of Constitutional Interpretation in volume 40 ...
January 25, 2017

Murray on Performance Artist Rafa Esparza's Work and a Legal Analysis of Police Brutality and Police Killings of People of Color

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Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, is publishing Rafa Esparza's Red Summer in the Fordham Urban Law Journal Online. Her...

Stanford Center for Law and History Now Accepting Fellowship Applications

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From the mailbox: Stanford's Center for Law and History is now accepting applications for a fellowship position.   The Center:   The ...

Thom Giddens on Crime and Comics:An Overview of the Intersection and Its History, University of Edinburgh School of Law, January 25, 2017 @ThomGiddens @ChloeJSKennedy

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Thom Giddens, St. Mary's University, London, presents a lecture on Crime and Comics: An Overview of the Intersection and its History, a...
January 24, 2017

Joe Sacco at Queen Mary University, March 21, 2017, To Discuss Law and the Humanities

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Via @maksdelmar: Inaugural Queen Mary Conversation in Law and the Humanities: Joe Sacco 21 March 2017   Time:   6:30 - 9:00pm     ...

First International Conference on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, February 8-10, 2017, St. Mary's University, London

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Centre for the Study of Modern Slavery International Conference Wednesday 8th February 2017 ...

Green on Constitutional Truthmakers @olemisslaw

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Christopher R. Green, University of Mississippi School of Law, has published Constitutional Truthmakers . Here is the abstract. Many dis...
January 23, 2017

Re-Visiting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein @FutureTenseNow @Museum_SciFi

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Future Tense has put together this event to explore and evaluate the continuing legacy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein  at New America, ...

Batman, Bane, and the Presidency

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Law, pop culture, and the Trump presidency: the Dark Knight Rises  creators discuss similarities between Bane, the Dark Knight  villain, a...
January 21, 2017

Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" In Graphic Form @ComicsGrid @nytimesbooks @

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Via @ComicsGrid From the New York Times: Agatha Christie's classic The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , distilled into a pithy graphic forma...
January 20, 2017

It's Sherlock! @WhatInTheHill @sjwilder100

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Via LSU Libraries' Special Collections Blog, a post  by scholar Kristopher Melchosky.  on what makes Sherlock Holmes so distinctive and...
January 19, 2017

Brooks on the Use of Narrative in the Interplay of Law and the Humanities

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Peter Brooks, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, is publishing Clues, Evidence, Detection: Law Stories in volume 25 of Narrati...

Newman on the Legality of the Agreement in The Merchant of Venice @WFULawSchool

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Joel S. Newman, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published If Shylock Had a Lawyer at 7 Wake Forest J. L. & Pol'y S. S. 2...
January 18, 2017

Law and Literature in Herman Meville and Heinrich von Kleist @newcriterion

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ICYMI: Martin Greenberg, The Difficult Justice of Melville & Kleist , The New Criterion, March 2005.

A New Play About Roe v. Wade Opens In Washington D.C.

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Richard Harris writes for Slate about a new play opening in Washington, D.C. that's based on the historic Roe v. Wade  decision. The pl...

Charles Dickens and Copyright Law @dkluft

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Nice piece on Charles Dickens and copyright law , from David Kluft , at JDSupra.  Mr. Kluft traces the English author's interest in cop...
January 17, 2017

Call For Papers: Litigating Women: Negotiating Justice In Courts of Law, From Around 1100 to Around 1750

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Call for papers: Litigating Women: negotiating justice in courts of law, c. 1100-c. 1750. Here is a description of the event from the webs...

Law and Star Trek: A Talk By Professor Fabrice Defferrard @FDefferrard1 @thewssociety

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Professor Fabrice Defferrard presents a talk on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at The Signet Library, Parliament Square, Edinburgh, on law an...

Call For Papers On the 60th Anniversary of Roland Barthes' "Mythologies" @PanuMinkkinen

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From Panu Minkkinen, an invitation to participate in a symposium on Roland Barthes' Mythologies  on the 60th anniversary of its publica...
January 16, 2017

Call For Papers, Association of Young Legal Historians Annual Forum, May 31-June 1, 2017

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The Association of Young Legal Historians is holding its 23rd Annual Forum May 31st-June 1st, 2017, at the Universita Degli Studi di Napoli...
January 15, 2017

Another Look at Mary Shelley's Frankenstein From @FutureTenseNow and Its Partners

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Future Tense, New America, Slate, and Arizona State University are running an interesting series of posts devoted to Mary Shelley's Fra...

Call For Papers: Mimesis on Trial @OxfordCEMS

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From the Centre for Early Modern Studies , via @ChloeJSKennedy Call for Papers: Mimesis on Trial Merton College, Oxford 20 May 2017 Wha...
January 14, 2017

Forthcoming from Oxford University Press @OxUniPress: The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature

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BOLO! via @maksdelmar The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (Lorna Hutson, ed., Oxford, forthcoming) (Oxford Handbo...
January 13, 2017

Frye on the History of Motion Pictures as Evidence @brianlfrye

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Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky College of Law, has published Reflections on Motion Picture Evidence . Here is the abstract. Courts...
January 12, 2017

Law and Literature Stream at SLSA 2017

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Law and Literature Historically, in an era of discontent characterised by political and economic uncertainty, legal scholarship has ofte...
January 11, 2017

A New Blog on Law and Language @LloydEsq

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ICYMI: a new-ish blog from Harold Anthony Lloyd, Professor of Law at Wake Forest School of Law. It's called Law & Language; Profess...

Call For Papers: Special Issue on Law and the Jewish Family, Jewish Law Association Studies

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Via Susan Sage Heinzelman: CFP: Special Issue on Law and the Jewish Family  For a special issue of  Jewish Law Association Studies  ...

Courtroom Artists and Law @ThomGiddens

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Great piece by Isobel Williams on the legal issues involved in being a courtroom artist. Via @ThomGiddens. More on the work of courtr...
January 10, 2017

Lloyd on Cognitive Emotion and the Law @LloydEsq

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ICYMI: Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law, is publishing Cognitive Emotion and the Law in the Law & Psycholog...

Koehlert-Page on Breading Bad Facts: How Intriguing Contradictions in Fiction Can Teach Lawyers to Re-Envision Harmful Evidence

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Cathren Koehlert-Page, Barry University School of Law, is publishing Breaking Bad Facts: How Intriguing Contradictions in Fiction Can Teach...