November 13, 2017

Schauer on Preferences For Law? @UVALaw

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Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing Preferences for Law? in volume 42 of Law and Social Inquiry (2017)....
November 10, 2017

A Series Devoted To Law and Literature From Mare & Martin @Mare_et_Martin

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In the series Droit et littérature, published by Mare et Martin:  Anatole France : leçons de droit (Nicolas Dissaux, ed.) (2016).  Cath...

University of Wollongong Position Open: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Humanities, and the Arts @UOW

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The University of Wollongong is advertising for an Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Humanities, and the Arts. See the listing here. V...

Postgraduate Research Studentships at University of East Anglia: Applications Being Considered Now Through January 21, 2018 @UEA

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The University of East Anglia, Faculty of Social Sciences, is advertising Postgraduate Research Studentships in the Social Sciences. School...
November 9, 2017

Maks del Mar on Law and the Legal Imagination @maksdelmar @aeonmag

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Maks del Mar writes about why imagination is a necessity for judges and lawyers. A brilliant essay.  Here, for Aeon. 

Kovvali on Confederate Statute Removal

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Aneil Kovvali, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz, has published Confederate Statute Removal at 70 Stanford Law Review Online 82 (2017). ...
November 8, 2017

Call For Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award 2017

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From the mailbox via Keith J. Bybee, Syracuse University College of Law Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Schola...

A New Issue of Amerikastudies/American Studies Devoted to Law and Poetry

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Newly published: Amerikastudien/American Studies, 2017, issue 2. This issue is devoted to Legal Poetics. It includes an introduction by...
November 7, 2017

Hudson on Emotions in the Early Common Law (c. 1166-1215)

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ICYMI: John Hudson, University of St. Andrews, has published Emotions in the Early Common Law (c. 1166-1215) at 38 Journal of Legal Histo...

Kha on the Spectacle of Divorce Law in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust and A. P. Herbert's Holy Deadlock @tandfonline

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Henry Kha has published The Spectacle of Divorce Law in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust  and A. P. Herbert's Holy Deadlock  in Law...

Offer, Skead, and Seen on Humor in the Law Classroom @UWALawSchool @tandfonline

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Kate Offer, Natalie Skead, and Angelyn Seen have published  "You Must Be Joking": The Role of Humour in the Law Classroom,"...
November 6, 2017

Bouclin on Women in Prison Movies as Feminist Jurisprudence @sbouclin @utpjournals

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ICYMI: Suzanne Bouclin, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, has published Women in Prison Movies as Feminist Jurisprudence , at 21 ...
November 5, 2017

ICYMI: A Survey of the Legal Thriller From Lars Ole Sauerberg @Palgrave_

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Lars Ole Sauerberg, University of Southern Denmark, has published The Legal Thriller From Gardner to Grisham (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). H...
November 2, 2017

Theilen on Philip Allott's Legal Utopianism @jtthei @ChloeJSKennedy

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Jens T. Theilen, Walther Schücking Institute, University of Kiel, has published Of Wonder and Changing the World: Philip Allott's Legal...
November 1, 2017

New From OUP: Handbook of Imagination and Culture, Edited by Tania Zittoun and Vlad Glaveanu @OxUniPress

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Newly published: Handbook of Imagination and Culture (Tania Zittoun and Vlad Glaveanu, eds., Oxford University Press 2017) (Frontiers in C...

CFP December 10, 2017: Legality/Illegality: Rules, Regulations, and Resistance @DMUHeadLMS @dmuleicester

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News of an interesting event, March 1, 2018: ABSTRACTS of 250 words can be sent to  lms18conference@gmail.com   by 10th December 2017 ...

Tourkochoriti on Comparative Rights Jurisprudence: A Essay on Methodologies @IoannaTourkocho @HarvardLaw

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Ioanna Tourkochoriti, Harvard Law School; National University of Ireland, Galway, School of Law, is publishing Comparative Rights Jurisprud...
October 31, 2017

ICYMI: Christine Grogan, Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) @fdu_press @RLPGBooks @penn_state

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ICYMI: Christine Grogan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Department of English, has published Father-Daughter Incest in T...

Rose on Raisin, Race, and the Real Estate Revolution of the Early 20th Century @uarizonalaw

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Carol M. Rose, University of Arizona College of Law, is publishing Raisin, Race, and the Real Estate Revolution of the Early 20th Century i...
October 30, 2017

Distinguished Indian Jurist Gives Lecture On Law and Literature

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From the Hindu: Justice A. P. Shah, former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, gave the second annual Hindu Lit for Life Lecture on th...

Workshop On Making Sociolegal Research Visible and Tangible @ThomGiddens @aperrykessaris @KentLawSchool @IALS_law

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News about a workshop taking place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, March 9, 2018, organized by Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Professor...

Sean Coyle, Modern Jurisprudence: A Philosophical Guide, 2nd Edition, Now Available in Paperback @hartpublishing

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Newly published: Sean Coyle, Modern Jurisprudence: A Philosophical Guide, 2d edition (Hart Publishing, 2017). Paperback. The second ed...

Newly Published: The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law, Edited by Jean d'Aspremont and Samantha Besson @JdA_IntLaw @OxUniPress

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Newly published: The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law (Jean d'Aspremont and Samantha Besson, eds., Oxford Universi...
October 26, 2017

Reminder: ASLCH Annual Meeting To Take Place at Georgetown Law Center March 16-17, 2018 @Law_Cult_Huma

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Reminder: The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is pleased to announce that its Twenty-First Annual Meeting wi...

ASLCH Graduate Student Workshop To Be Held March 15, 2018 @Law_Cult_Huma

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GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP The Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held...
October 25, 2017

Curran on Comparative Law and Language Revisited @PittLaw @pittlawfaculty @OxUniPress

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Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is publishing Comparative Law and Language Revisited in the Oxford Handboo...

d'Aspremont on What Was Not Meant To Be: General Principles of Law As a Source of International Law @JdA_IntLaw ‏

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Jean d'Aspremont, University of Manchester, School of Law, and Sciences Po Law School, is publishing What Was Not Meant to Be: General ...

Conference on Philosophy of Customary Law, May 14-16, 2018, Nice, France

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From the mailbox: The Centre de recherche en histoire des idées is organizing a conference on the philosophy of customary law, to take pl...
October 24, 2017

Mosvick on Courtroom Wars: Pennsylvania Judges and Popular Constitutional Discourse in the Civil War North @nmosvick

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Nicholas M. Mosvick, University of Mississippi School of Law, has published Courtroom Wars: Pennsylvania Judges and Popular Constitutional ...

Tilburg Law Review, Special issue: Translating Law, Now Available @TilburgLaw @tilburglawrev

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From the mailbox: The Tilburg Law Review, volume 22 (2017), is now available. It is a double issue, on the theme of Translating Law. Th...
October 23, 2017

A New Collection of John William Corrington's Writings, Edited by Allen Mendenhall @allenmendenhall @UnivPressNG

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Newly published: The Southern Philosopher: Collected Essays of John William Corrington (Allen Mendenhall, ed., University of North Georgia ...

Schlag on Reason as a Fundamental Concept in International Law @ColoLaw

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Pierre Schlag, University of Colorado Law School, is publishing Reason in Fundamental Concepts for International Law (Jean d'Aspremont ...
October 20, 2017

Narrative and Metaphor in the Law, Edited by Michael Hanne and Robert Weisberg, Due in 2018 From Cambridge University Press @Stanford @AucklandUni

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Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2018: Narrative and Metaphor in the Law, edited by Michael Hanne, University of Auckland, ...

The Rights of the Undead, and Some Related Issues

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It's Halloween, and naturally our thoughts turn to the rights of ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties. Some clarification he...
October 19, 2017

Sugarman on Promoting Dialogue Between History and Socio-Legal Studies: The Contribution of Christopher W. Brooks and "Legal Turn" in Early Modern English History @LancasterUni

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David Sugarman, Lancaster University Law School, has published Promoting Dialogue between History and Socio-Legal Studies: The Contribution...

Biggs on Jousting at Windmills: Cervantes and the Quixotic Fight for Authorial Control

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Henry Parkman Biggs, Washington University, St. Louis, has published Jousting at Windmills: Cervantes and the Quixotic Fight for Authorial ...
October 18, 2017

Stewart on Australian Stories of Tax and Fairness: A Feminist Reading of Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector @AusTaxProf

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ICYMI: Miranda Stewart, Australian stories of tax and fairness: a feminist reading of Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector, at 18 Australi...

Gries and Slocum on Ordinary Meaning and Corpus Linguistics @McGeorgeLaw

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Stefan Th. Gries, Deoartment of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Brian G. Slocum, University of the Pacific, McGeo...

Solan and Gales on Corpus Linguistics as a Tool in Legal Interpretation @brooklynlaw @HofstraU

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Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School, and Tammy A. Gales, Hofstra University, are publishing Corpus Linguistics as a Tool in Legal Interp...

Rosenberg on Contract and Freedom: Constrained Existence in Middlemarch and The Mayor of Casterbridge @AnatRosenberg

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Anat Rosenberg, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliyah-Radzyner School of Law, is publishing Chapter 4: Contract and Freedom(?): Constrained Ex...

Agha on Un-Doing Law: Public Art as Contest Over Meanings @CharlesUniPRG

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Petr Agha, Charles University in Prague, Law Faculty, has published Un-Doing Law – Public Art as Contest Over Meanings as Charles Universi...

Vaughn on Michael Crichton's View of Lawyers

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ICYMI: Lea B. Vaughn, University of Washington School of Law, has published A Few Inconvenient Truths About Michael Crichton’s State of F...

Vaughn on Susanna Blumenthal, Law and the Modern Mind

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Lea B. Vaughn, University of Washington School of Law, is publishing Book Review - (Of Susanna L. Blumenthal, Law and the Modern Mind: Cons...
October 17, 2017

Acosta Arcarazo on Open Borders in the Nineteenth Century: Constructing the National, the Citizen, and the Foreigner in South America @BristolUni

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Diego Acosta Arcarazo, University of Bristol, has published Open Borders in the Nineteenth Century: Constructing the National, the Citizen ...
October 16, 2017

Lloyd on Why Originalism Cannot Work @LloydEsq

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ICYMI: Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published Why Originalism Cannot Work: Lessons from Logic, Scriptur...

Ricca on How To Make Space and Law Interplay Horizonally

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ICYMI: Mario Ricca, University of Parma, has published How to Make Space and Law Interplay Horizontally: From Legal Geography to Legal Ch...

Selkälä and Rajavuori on Traditions, Myths, and Utopias of Personhood @TSelkl @Ger_Law_Journal @UniTurku

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Toni Selkälä and Mikko Rajavuori, both of the University of Turku Faculty of Law, have published Traditions, Myths, and Utopias of Personho...
October 15, 2017

Hollander-Blumoff on Novel Negotiation

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ICYMI: Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff, Washinton University, St. Louis, School of Law, is publishing Novel Negotiation in the Journal of Dis...
October 14, 2017

Woman With a Mission: Frances Glessner Lee and Her Crime Dioramas

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Frances Glessner Lee, a woman with a fortune, was also a woman with a mission--to convince law enforcement and others involved in the justi...
October 8, 2017

Human Rights Lawyers in Films

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Corallina Lopez-Curzi created this short list of human rights lawyers on film for Rights Info.  While it includes Joe Miller from Philadelp...