November 27, 2017

Tranter on Law, the Digital, and Time: The Legal Emblems of Doctor Who @GriffLawSchool

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Kieran Mark Tranter, Griffith University Law School, is publishing Law, the Digital and Time: The Legal Emblems of Doctor Who in volume 30...
November 22, 2017

Via @maksdelmar: Conversation In Law and Society, a Project from the Center for the Study of Law and Society @CSLSatBerkeley

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Of interest: Conversations in Law and Society, a project from the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berke...
November 21, 2017

A New Book From Edward Elgar Publishing: Negotiating Cultural Rights, Edited by Lucky Belder and Helle Potsdam @ElgarPublishing

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New from Edward Elgar Publishing: Negotiating Cultural Rights: Issues at Stake, Challenges and Recommendations (Lucky Belder and Helle Pot...
November 20, 2017

A New Book From Thomas Giddens: On Comics and Legal Aesthetics @ThomGiddens @routledgebooks

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Forthcoming from Routledge: Thomas Giddens, St. Mary's University, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask ...

Meyn on Why Civil and Criminal Procedure Are So Different: A Forgotten History @WisconsinLaw

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Ion Meyn, University of Wisconsin Law School, has published Why Civil and Criminal Procedure Are So Different: A Forgotten History at 86 F...

Howlin on Maamtransna: The Trial of Miles Joyce in 1882 @N_Howlin

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Niamh Howlin, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, has published Maamtrasna: The Trial of Myles Joyce in 1882 as UCD Worki...

Richards on an Expressive Theory of Tax @CornellLaw

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Kitty Richards, Independent, is publishing An Expressive Theory of Tax in volume 26 of the the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy (2...

Soucek on Aesthetic Judgment in Law @BRSoucek @UCDavisLaw

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Brian Soucek, University of California, Davis, School of Law, has published Aesthetic Judgment in Law at 69 Alabama Law Review 381 (2017). ...
November 17, 2017

Palombella on Interlegality and Justice

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Gianluigi Palombella, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa; University of Parma, has published Interlegality and Justice. Here is the abs...

Mulcahy on Eyes of the Law: A Visual Turn in Socio-Legal Studies? @LindaMulcahy2

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Linda Mulcahy, London School of Economics, Law Department, has published Eyes of the Law: A Visual Turn in Socio‐Legal Studies? at 44 Jour...
November 15, 2017

Wesson on The Chow: Depictions of the Criminal Justice System as a Character In Crime Fiction @ColoLaw @alafairburke

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Marianne Mimi Wesson, University of Colorado Law School, has published The Chow: Depictions of the Criminal Justice System as a Character i...

Call for Applications: War and Society: Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Haverford College, 2018-2020 @haverfordedu @haverfordcah

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From the mailbox: War and Society: Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Haverford College, 2018-2020 Location: Haverford, PA ...
November 14, 2017

Comics, Taxes, and Civil Rights

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Winnipeg high school student Elly Hooker has won a national award for the comic she created which tells the story of Nova Scotian Viola Des...

John Kerrigan on Shakespeare's Binding Language (OUP, 2016) @Canbridge_Uni

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ICYMI: John Kerrigan, Professor of English, Cambridge University, has published Shakespeare's Binding Language (Oxford University Pre...

Call For Papers: Workshop: The Othered Senses: Law, Regulation, Sensorium

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From the mailbox: CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP The Othered Senses: Law, Regulation, Sensorium May 1-2, 2018 Montreal, Quebe...

Tucker on Writing Labor Law History: A Reconnaissance @OsgoodeNews

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Eric Tucker, York University, Osgoode Hall; Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Visiting), has published On Writing Labour Law History: A Re...

Finchett-Maddock on Outsider Poesis in Street Art and Graffiti @Palgrave_

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Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Sussex School of Legal Studies, is publishing In Vacuums of Law We Find: Outsider Poiesis in Street Art and Graffiti...
November 13, 2017

Schauer on Oliver Wendell Holmes's Interpretation of the First Amendment @UVALaw

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Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing Every Possible Use of Language? i n an Oxford University Press volum...

CFP: University of Detroit Mercy Law Review: The Return of Sanctuary Cities @UDMLawReview @DetroitMercyLaw

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Call For Proposals: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY LAW REVIEW C ALL FOR P ROPOSALS The Return of Sanctuary Cities: The Muslim...

Steven Gerrard on The Modern British Horror Film (New From Rutgers University Press) @RutgersUPress @leedsbeckett

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New from Rutgers University Press: Steven Gerrard, Northern Film School, Leeds-Beckett University,  The Modern British Horror Film (Rutge...

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 ...