Law & Humanities Blog

Richard A. Danner, Duke University School of Law, has published James DeWitt Andrews: Classifying the Law in the Early Twentieth Century . ...

If you like Golden Age mysteries and detective fiction, or works published in English prior to that period, check out the reprints publishe...

Colm Toíbín reviews two new books about James Joyce and the law, Joyce in Court  (Head of Zeus), and The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth...

New from Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence (George Duke, Deakin University, Victoria, Aus...

In anticipation of the new version of Murder on the Orient Express,   Entertainment Weekly 's Tina Jordan offers this guide to Agatha C...

For July 4th, take a television tour of our fifty states (and our nation's capital), courtesy of Variety, which offers us a trademark s...

Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University School of Law, is publishing  The Intellectual History of Law  in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Le...

Now published: Special issue of the Journal of Oxford Center for Socio-Legal Studies: Law and Popular Culture (Issue 3, 2017). This iss...

New from Manchester University Press: Law in Popular Belief (Anthony Amatrudo and Regina Rauxloh, eds., 2017). From the publisher's...

Roy Lee discusses international law, policy, and human rights lessons we can draw from Star Wars, here , in a column for Jurist. Mr. Lee i...

Rafael Domingo, Emory University School of Law; University of Navarra, has published The Law of Property in Ancient Roman Law . Here is the...

Geoffrey Samuel, Professor of Law, Kent Law School , has posted ten choices for films "for the comparatist," here at BACL (Briti...

Thomas Burri, University of St. Gallen, has published International Law, Infinite Jest . Here is the abstract. This short paper shows h...

Yaniv Roznai, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Radzyner School of Law; New York University, The Hauser Global Law School; Universit...

Now available from the UK Supreme Court shop and from the artist, Isobel Williams , The Supreme Court, A Guide For Bears. Paperback, 32p...

Rafael Domingo, Emory University School of Law; University of Navarra, has published The Roman Law of Succession. An Overview. Here is the...

Eric Tucker, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School; Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Visiting), is publishing When Wage Theft Was a Cr...

Eric M. Adams, University of Alberta Faculty of Law, and Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria, are publishing Promises of Law: The U...

Michael Tugendhat, Leicester Law School, has published Slavery and Comparative Law in Eighteenth Century England as University of Leiceste...

Carolyn Strange, Australian National University, is publishing Pardon and Parole in Prohibition-Era New York: Discretionary Justice in the ...

Blaine Baker, Mc Gill University, is publishing Musings and Silences of Chief Justice William Osgoode: Digest Marginalia about the Receptio...

Eyal Benvenisti, Cambridge University Faculty of Law, and Doreen Lustig, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, have published Taming Democra...

Steven Douglas Smith, University of San Diego School of Law, has published Alexander as Anarchist . Here is the abstract. This essay, wr...

Over at NPR,  Danielle Kurtzleben has an interesting discussion of Donald Trump as a "unreliable narrator," asking whether he res...

Sherlock  creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are turning to an interpretation of Bram Stoker's Dracula  as their next project. G...

Elena Falletti, Carlo Catteneo University, has published Le Nozze di Figaro and the Sunset of Ancien Régime Legacy on Modern Legal Culture....

Matthias Klatt, University of Graz, Faculty of Law, has published Legal Argumentation and the Rule of Law. Here is the abstract. Both...

Dan Priel, Osgoode Hall, has published Law and Digestion: A Brief History of an Unpalatable Idea. Here is the abstract. According to a fa...

Rachel DiCarlo Currie considers whether Better Call Saul  is the "best--and most morally sound--show on television." Her verdict-...

Now available on Google Books (before it's available for purchase): The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (Lorna...

Akiva A. Miller, New York University School of Law; Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, has published The Law of Time Travel. H...

Tonight (June 19, 2017), the Shakespeare Theatre Company held its semi-annual mock trial. Tonight the problem was derived from Macbeth, pet...

New from University of Toronto Press: Cheryl Suzack, Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law (2017). Here from the pu...

From today's ruling in If private speech could be passed off as government speech by simply affixing a government seal of approval, g...

Just published by Head of Zeus Books: Adrian Hardiman, Joyce in Court (2016). Here from the publisher's website is a description of th...

It's Bloomsday! Here are some references on the topic of James Joyce and the law. On James Joyce and censorship: A. Craig, The Bann...

Annaleigh E. Curtis, Independent, is publishing Due Process Demands As Propaganda: The Rhetoric of Title IX Opposition in volume 29 of the...

Jessie Allen, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is publishing Blackstone, Expositor and Censor of Law Both Made and Found in Blacks...

Ayun Halliday investigates the uses of inventor Alexander Graham Bell as representative of all kinds of TV spokesperson, from the obvious (...

Torben Spaak, Stockholm University, has published Legal Positivism, Conventionalism, and the Normativity of Law. Here is the abstract. ...

Ms. Mentor, channelled through Emily Toth, Professor of English and Women's Studies at LSU, offers her annual-ish list of academic list...

Here is a link to a CFP  for the International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law, Faculty of Law, Masaryk Universit...

James Shanahan, Dean of the Media School, Indiana University, and Michael Morgan, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,...

Images of pop culture professors: do real life academics see themselves on the screen? On tv? In novels? More here from Suhuana Hussain in ...

If you like to read crime fiction, check out the blog Crime Fiction Lover,  written and edited by Catherine Turnbull, Mike Parker, MarinaSo...

Ralf Poscher, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, is publishing The Hermeneutics of Law: An Analytical Model for a Complex General Account ...

Rachel DiCarlo Currie interprets the David Chase series "The Sopranos," and offers us an explanation for the mysterious ending. M...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Samuel Richardson and the Law in Samuel Richardson in Context 231-38 (Pet...

David A. Collins, The City Law School, City, University of London, has published Narrative and Lyrical Elements in International Investment...

New from Hart Publishing: Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses (Andrea Durbach and Lucas Lixinski, eds., 2017). He...