July 31, 2017

Georgetown Law Center to Host 2018 ASLCH Annual Meeting @GeorgetownLaw

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Just announced: Georgetown Law Center will host the 2018 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanit...

Composer/Lawyer Derrick Wang Joins the Peabody Institute To Teach Law and Music

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Composer and attorney Derrick Wang ("Scalia/Ginsburg") will join the Peabody Institute in the fall to teach law and music, both ...

Mendenhall on Jeffrey Rosen's Depiction of Louis Brandeis as the Jeffersonian Jurist @allenmendenhall

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Allen Mendenhall, Faulkner University School of Law, is publishing The Jeffersonian Jurist? a Reconsideration of Justice Louis Brandeis and...
July 30, 2017

Leading Female Detectives In Fiction

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In the Guardian, Kristin Lepionka (The Last Place You Look) lists her choices for the top ten female detectives in fiction, including Tana ...
July 27, 2017

Justin Trudeau and "The West Wing"

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From The Hill: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he watched the hit TV show "The West Wing" to prep for debates agains...

Meyer on Legal Discourse and the Contemporary Native American Novel on the Indian Removal @UniOsnabrueck

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Sabine N. Meyer, University of Osnabrueck, has published From Federal Indian Law to Indigenous Rights: Legal Discourse and the Contemporar...

Bijl on Human Rights and Anticolonial Nationalism In Sjahrir's "Indonesian Contemplations"

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Paul Bijl has published Human Rights and Anticolonial Nationalism in Sjahrir's Indonesian Contemplations at 29 Law & Literature 247...

Pope on Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Badges and Incidents of Slavery

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James Gray Pope, Rutgers Law School, Newark, is publishing Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Badges and Incidents of Slavery in...

Neti on "The Love Laws": THe Indian Penal Code and Roy's "The God of Small Things" @Occidental

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Leila Neti, Occidental College, has published "The Love Laws": Section 377 and the Politics of Queerness in Arundhati Roy's T...

Goodrich on Islands, Pirates, Sovereignty, and Jurisdiction @CardozoLaw

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Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, has published Mos Piraticus : On the Haunting and Infesting of the Seas, at 29 Law & Literature ...
July 26, 2017

Why So Many Mystery and Horror Plots Grow Up--and Out--of Small Towns

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Emily Farrelly offers five reasons that small towns are such wonderful settings for mystery and horror: 1) the illusion of closeness (every...

Merlino on Montesquieu e la scienza giurdica italiana (Montesquieu and Italian Legal Science)

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Antonio Merlino, Paris-Lodron-Universitaet Salzburg, has published Montesquieu e la scienza giuridica italiana (Montesquieu and Italian Le...

Endicott and Oliver on The Role of Theory in Canadian Constitutional Law @OxfordLawFac @PeterCOliver @OxUniPress

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Timothy A. O. Endicott, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, and Peter C. Oliver, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, are publishing ...
July 25, 2017

Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights @degruyter_lit

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New in paperback from de Gruyter: Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse (Ian W...
July 24, 2017

"Star Trek" and Revolutionary Socialism @nytimes

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A. M. Gittlitz examines Star Trek 's links to revolutionary socialism, here , for the New York Times.

Asimow on Jewish Lawyers on Television @StanfordLaw @OxfordCSLS ‏

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Michael Asimow, Stanford Law School, has published Jewish Lawyers on Television at 2017 (2) Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal S...
July 13, 2017

Mikhail on The Definition of "Emolument" In English Language and Legal Dictionaries, 1523-1806 @_John_Mikhail

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John Mikhail, Georgetown University Law Center, has published The Definition of 'Emolument' in English Language and Legal Dictionar...
July 12, 2017

Comino, Galasso, and Grasizno on The Diffusion of New Institutions: Evidence From Renassiance Venice's Patent System @AlbertoGalasso

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Stefano Comino, Università degli Studi di Udine, Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto...

Domingo on Justinian and the Corpus Iuris: An Overview @RafaelDomingoO1

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Rafael Domingo, Emory University School of Law; University of Navarra, has published Justinian and the Corpus Iuris: An Overview. Here is ...

Dubber on Colonial Criminal Law and Other Modernities @UTLaw

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Markus D. Dubber, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Colonial Criminal Law and Other Modernities: European Criminal Law i...

Reynolds on Truth and the Trial Lawyer @Oregon_Law

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Jennifer Reynolds, University of Oregon School of Law, has published Truth and the Trial Lawyer at Trial Lawyer, Summer 2017, at 13. Here ...
July 11, 2017

Alexander on Libel and Copyright in the Satire of Peter Pindar

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James R. Alexander, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, has published Libel and Copyright in the Satire of Peter Pindar . Here is the abst...

Tugendhat on Slavery and Comparative Law in Eighteenth Century England @LawLeicester

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

Simenon and Justice: A New Book By Alexandra Fabbri and Christian Guéry @BellesLettresEd

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A new book on Georges Simenon and law, available from Les Belles Lettres. The authors are judges Alexandra Fabbri and Christian Guéry, and ...

Call For Applications, Fellowships: Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne

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From the mailbox: The Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Lucerne is pleased to announce the call ...

Registration Now Open For the Central States Law Schools Association 2017 Conference

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From the mailbox: Registration is Open for the CSLSA 2017 Conference Registration is now open  for the Central States Law Scho...