Law & Humanities Blog

Philip Meyer on Alternative facts and the law: is justice a reality? (published in the ABA Journal, June 1, 2017). 

From The New York Times, published May 26, 2017. Bruce Headlam, Colin Archdeacon, and Mike Shum, Theater of War: A Warrior's Last Wor...

ICYMI: Alison Young has published Street Art World (Reaktion Books, dist. University of Chicago Press, 2016). Here from the publisher/dist...

Call For Papers:  Cities as Ill Bodies in Films and Series From  Anne Wagner Associate Professor  EIC of the International Journal...

New from the University Press of Southern Denmark/ISBS: Andreas Halskov, Twin Peaks and Modern Television Drama (2017). Here from the publ...

Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky College of Law, is publishing The Zapruder Film in A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (...

From Lapham's Quarterly, a survey of sf literature, film, and television measuring alien attitudes toward humans. 

Stephanie Beaulac, University of Montreal, Faculty of Law, is publishing Post-World War I/Quiet Revolution (1920-1970) – Through the Lenses...

If you like Shakespeare, Ghostbusters,  and parody,   Ministers of Grace  may be your cup of, er, tea.   Written in iambic pentameter by Jo...

@ABAesq notes the 40th anniversary of Star Wars  with this discussion from Legal Geeks of whether Han Solo shot first and whether it matter...

Michael Arntfield, Professor of Criminology and Forensic Writing, Western University, and Marcel Danesi, Professor of Anthropology, Univers...

Reminder: Call For Papers, AALS Section of Law and the Humanities Panel on Robots and AI in the Humanities, 2018 Annual Meeting   Remi...

Call for Papers: Dissents and Dispositions, Conference of the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia Updated CFP

The Tenth Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory will be held at Melbourne Law School, December 7-8, 2017. Here is a link to the Call for...

Stewart Macaulay, University of Wisconsin Law School, has published New Legal Realism: Unpacking a Proposed Definition at 6 UC Irvine Law ...

New publication: Culture in the Domains of Law (René Provost, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017) (Cambridge Studies in Law and Societ...

ICYMI: Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published Petit Treason in Eighteenth Century England: Women's Inequality b...

A new issue of Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science is available and includes many interesting articles,...

Otto Penzler and the mystery (from Atlas Obscura ). The legendary publisher and bookstore owner has transformed how we think and consume th...

The biennial Chaucer and the Law Conference takes place Friday 30th June - Saturday 1st July 2017, Senate House. More here.

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Narratives of Criminal Procedure from Doyle to Chandler to Burke in volum...

Gwen Jordan, University of Illinois, Springfield, has published ‘A Woman of Strange, Unfathomable Presence’: Ida Platt's Lived Experien...

Over at SyFyWire/Bad Astronomy, astronomer Phil Plait alerts us to an easter egg buried in the "Imperfection" episode of Star Tre...

Some law and film recommendations  published at Vox. com on the subject of Richard Nixon and Watergate from Robert Reich, Labor Secretary i...

From Open Culture: an animation of Franz Kafka's parable Before the Law  (from The Trial).

Kathryn Harkup writes about Chilean arsenic eaters and the plot of Dorothy Sayers's mystery novel Strong Poison here, for the Science ...

Pierre Schlag, University of Colorado Law School, has published The American Road to Fascism . Here is the abstract. The U.S. President...

Barbara Lauriat, King's College London, Dickson Poon School of Law, is publishing Literary and Dramatic Disputes in Shakespeare's T...

Anne E. Linton, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Boston College, has published Hermaphrodite Outlaws: Ambiguous Sex and the Civil Co...

Lauri Mälksoo, University of Tartu, is publishing Sources of International Law in the 19th Century European Tradition: Insights from Practi...

Erin Braatz, New York University, is publishing The Eighth Amendment's Milieu: Penal Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century in volume 10...

Anders Kaye, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has published Why Pornography is Not Prostitution: Folk Theories of Sexuality in the Law of Vi...

In this article for the Washington Post, David Bushman and Mark Givens track the origins of the  cult tv classic Twin Peaks  to an unsolved...

Lawrence B. Solum, Georgetown University Law Center, has published The Fixation Thesis: The Role of Historical Fact in Original Meaning at...

A list of best crime novels of 2017, from The Booklist Reader. (via @DSimpsonAuthor) Included are works such as Carl Hiassen's Razon G...

Newly published: Narration as Argument (Paula Olmos, ed., Springer, 2017). This book presents reflections on the relationship between ...

The American Bar Association today announced its selections for the 2017 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts , which recognize out...

George M. Pike, Northwestern University School of Law, has published Legal Issues: Abbott and Costello Explain Copyright Law. Here is the ...

Gregory S. Gordon, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, is publishing The Propaganda Prosecutions at Nuremberg: The Origin ...

From the mailbox: Stream Call for Papers: Public Art, Public Law? At: "Dissents and Dispositions" Law, Literature and Humani...

From the mailbox: Call for Papers: Dissents and Dispositions Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia,  Melbourne, 12...

From Thom Giddens:  Reminder: Law and Culture Conference 2017 7th to  8th September 2017   Call for papers What does it mean to break t...