Law & Humanities Blog

Scott D. Gerber, Ohio Northern University College of Law, has published Law and Catholicism in Colonial Maryland at 103 Catholic Historica...

Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law School, has published Inside the 'Constitutional Revolution' of 1937 at 2016 Supreme Court Law Revie...

Shaunnagh Dorsett, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law, has published Metropolitan Theorising: Legal Frameworks, Protectorates ...

Lukas van den Berge, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Erasmus School of Law, has published Sophocles’ Antigone and the Promise of Ethica...

Michael D. Murray, University of Massachusetts School of Law, has published The Sharpest Tool in the Toolbox: Visual Legal Rhetoric and Nar...

James Cleith Phillips, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Students), and Sara White, Brigham Young University, Law School; ...

Steven J. Heyman, Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT, is publishing The Light of Nature: John Locke, Natural Rights, and the Origins of Ameri...

New from Hart Publishing: Nahel Asfour, Wrongful Enrichment: A Study in Comparative Law and Culture (2017)(International Studies in the T...

From Michiel Bot, Tilburg University: In 2014, Tilburg University established the annual Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanit...

Mark Somos, Harvard University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School, has published George Ticknor’s Progress of Politicks...

Luka Burazin, University of Zagreb Faculty of Law, is publishing Brian Leiter and the Naturalisation of the Philosophy of Law in The Provin...

More of Sarah Lynch's musings on chargeable crimes for tv characters here  for Bucket Orange. This time she considers what Rick Grimes ...

By Sarah Lynch, for  Bucket Orange Magazine , a discussion of possible crimes Dracula could be charged with under Australian law. They incl...

New from Beacon Press: Sheryll Cashin, Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat To White Supremacy (2017). Here is a descrip...

Doug Magendanz, University of Queensland, has published The Structure of Religious Violence: Hugo Grotius on Property and Pious War . Here ...

Robin L. West, Georgetown University Law Center, has published The New Legal Criticism at 117 Columbia Law Review Online 144 (2017). Here ...

Robin L. West, Georgetown University Law Center, has published In Praise of Richard Weisberg's Intransigence at 29 Law & Literatur...

Sherally K. Munski, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Comparative Law and Decolonizing Critique . Here is the abstract. Thi...

Via Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens: FiLiA announces a conference at the Institute of Education, London, October 14-15, 2017, on Feminism in Lo...

Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell Law School, has published Objects of Art; Objects of Property as Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17...

Morris Silver, City College of New York, Economics Department, has published Serfdom by Contract in the Late Roman Empire. Here is the abs...

Via Simon Stern (ArsScripta) New from McGill University Press: Matthew Fellion, Independent Scholar, and Katherine Inglis, Department...

Alison Pert, University of Sydney Law School, has published The Development of Australia's International Legal Personality at 34 Austra...

New from Oxford University Press: New Directions in Law and Literature (Elizabeth S. Anker and Bernadette Meyler, 2017). Here is a des...

Elizabeth Anker, Department of English, Cornell University, announces a new book series with Cornell University Press called "Corpus J...

Stanley L. Paulson, Washington University Law School (Emeritus), has published Metamorphosis in Hans Kelsen's Legal Philosophy  at 80 T...

From the Strand Magazine, a post highlighting how forensic artists help solve crimes.  Among their talents, the ability to interview witnes...

From the blog Interesting Literature, a list of ten literary detectives for those who like Sherlock Holmes . It includes such clever sleuth...

The UK's Channel 4 is making history: it will begin broadcasting Chile's crime series Fugitives (Prófugos) on September 20th. The ...

Anne Peters, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, is publishing The Rise and Decline of the International...

Via Thom Giddens, St. Mary's University, news of this exhibition at neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin: Curator Ag...

Sonia Katyal, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, is publishing Technoheritage in the California Law Review. Here is the ab...

From the mailbox:  Call for Papers from the Law and Society Association for its 2018 Annual Meeting June 7 - 10, 2018 in Toronto, Canada ...

ABC is rebooting the show "The Greatest American Hero" with a woman in the lead as the character with the task of righting wrongs...

James Grippando, lawyer (Boies, Schiller, Flexner) and novelist (HarperCollins), has won the seventh annual Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fic...

Rebecca Ruth Gould, Unviersity of Birmingham; Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, is publishing Punishing Vio...

Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published Vico's Providence Today . Here is the abstract. According to Vico, it is piet...

Neal Hoopes (Independent) has published Reclaiming the Primary Significance Test: Dictionaries, Corpus Linguistics, and Trademark Genericid...

Lorenzo Zucca, Professor of Law and Philosophy, King's College, London, and Igor Judge, Lord Judge, Visiting Professor, King's Coll...

Eoin Daly, Lecturer in Law, National University of Ireland, has published Rousseau's Constitutionalism (Hart Publishing, 2017). Here is...

Shiri Krebs, Deakin Law School; Stanford Center on International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), is publishing The Legalization of Truth ...

Lawrence Solum, Brooklyn Law School, has published Patterns in Language and Law at 6 International Journal of Language & Law 46 (2017)...

Caroline Mala Corbin, University of Miami School of Law, is publishing 'Terrorists are Always Muslim But Never White': At the Inter...

Michael Diamond, Georgetown University Law Center, has published The Transposition of Power: Law, Lawyers and Social Movements at 24 Georg...

Andrew Jensen Kerr, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing The Law According to the Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time in...

New from Elgar Publishing: Niels van Dijk, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Group on Law, Science, Technology, and Society, Vrije Universite...

From Rebecca Zietlaw, Chair of AALLS Section on Constitutional Law, 2017-2018 Call for Papers: The AALS Sections on Consti...

Rebekka Byberg, University of Copenhagen, has published The History of Common Market Law Review 1963–1993 at 23 European Law Journal 45 (2...

Vernon V. Palmer, Tulane Law School, has published Empires as Engines of Mixed Legal Systems as Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 17-13...

Doug Kiel, Northwestern University, is publishing Bleeding Out: Histories and Legacies of 'Indian Blood' , in The Great Vanishing A...