February 27, 2018

Didikin on Law as a Linguistic Phenomenon

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Anton Didkin, Higher School of Economics, has published Law as a Linguistic Phenomenon as Law and Language Special Workshop IVR Congress 2...

Art and Conflict Workshop, June 25-26, 2018, Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Law School @thomgiddens @MelbLawSchool @unimelb

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Art and Conflict Workshop 25-26 June 2018 VCA and Melbourne Law School University of Melbourne ​ Works of art speak truths...

Colloquium: Law In/And/As Performance, March 24, 2018, University of Warwick @warwickuni @thomgiddens

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Law In / And / As Performance Colloquium March 24th 2018, 9.45am-4.15pm Law In/And/As Performance  is a one-day interdisciplina...
February 22, 2018

The Campus Mystery Novel: Try One! @hbll

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Courtesy of Brigham Young University Library, a lovely annotated bibliography of the campus mystery novel from 1920 to 2000.   Maybe I'...

Filmmaker Shawn Rech Making a Follow-Up To "Making a Murderer"

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Documentary filmmaker Shawn Rech is moving ahead with Convicting a Murderer,  a follow-up to the Netflix hit Making a Murderer , the story ...

Bellanova and González Fuster on Thinking Surveillance With/Again Netflix @ikkibop @FusterGloria @routledgebooks

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Rocco Bellanova, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, and Gloria González Fuster, Vrije Universiteit B...
February 21, 2018

Counter Exhibitions: Opening March 6, University of London @thomgiddens @GoldsmithsUofL

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COUNTER INVESTIGATIONS: FORENSIC ARCHIT...

Solan on the Interpretation of Legal Language @brooklynlaw

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Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School, has published The Interpretation of Legal Language at 4 Annual Review of Linguistics 337 (2018). H...
February 20, 2018

Baldy Center For Law and Social Policy Now Accepting Applications For Fellowships (Deadline Extended) @baldycenter

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Reminder: Baldy Center For Law & Social Policy is accepting applications for fellowships until March 9, 2018 (deadline extended) The ...
February 19, 2018

Hohmann on the Treaty 8 Typewriter: Tracing the Roles of Material Things in Imagining, Realising, and Resisting Colonial Worlds @DrJessieHohmann

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Jessie M. Hohmann, Queen Mary, University of London, has published The Treaty 8 Typewriter: Tracing the Roles of Material Things in Imagini...

Bastias Saavedra on Possession, Ownership, and Land Sales on the Chilean Frontier (1790-1830)

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Manual Bastias Saavedra, University of Bremen, Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP), has published The Lived Space: Possession, Owner...
February 18, 2018

The Serial Killer in Popular Culture @bucketorange

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Bucket Orange magazine discusses how television portrays serial killers and criminal profiling. Here's the link. More about serial ki...
February 17, 2018

ICYMI: Soucek on Not Representing Justice: Ellsworth Kelly's Abstraction in the Boston Courthouse @BRSoucek

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ICYMI: Brian Soucek, University of California, Davis, School of Law, has published Not Representing Justice: Ellsworth Kelly's Abstrac...
February 16, 2018

Tranter on Envisioning and Programming Digital Legality From SyFy's Caprica @GriffLawSchool

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Kieran Mark Tranter, Griffith Law School, is publishing I, Archive: Envisioning and Programming Digital Legality from SyFy's Caprica i...

Just Rawling Along: A Theory of Justice: The Musical! @JusticeMusical

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Proving that one can set anything to music, John Rawls is coming to the London stage. Well, sort of. (It has already played at the Edinburg...

A Series on Law and the Arts at the University of Malaga Faculty of Law @jcalvo11

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Beginning March 9, the University of Malaga School of Law is hosting a series of seminars on Art and Law. The March 9th lecture features P...
February 15, 2018

Jeff Daniels To Star in To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway Later This Year @Jeff_Daniels

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Jeff Daniels ( The Newsroom,   The Martian,   Godless ) is starring as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's i...

Thornton and Roberts on Women Judges, Private Lives: (In)Visibilities in Fact and Fiction @ANU_Law @hj_roberts_ @GenderANU

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Margaret Thornton and Heather Roberts, both of the Australian National University College of Law, have published Women Judges, Private Live...
February 14, 2018

Kramer on Hart and the Metaphysics and Semantics of Legal Normativity @cambridgelaw

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Matthew H. Kramer, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, has published Hart and the Metaphysics and Semantics of Legal Normativity as U...
February 13, 2018

Call For Nominations: Julien Mezey Dissertation Award @Law_Cult_Huma

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The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites submissions for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual p...
February 12, 2018

Hawk on English Competition Law Before 1900

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Barry E. Hawk, Fordham University School of Law, has published English Competition Law Before 1900 as a Fordham Law Legal Studies Research...

"Let's Hear It For Dear Leader!" On Tyrants Writing Poetry @ArsScripta @CEUPress

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A new book from Central European University Press explores why dictators are so drawn to expressing themselves in verse, and what that attr...

Calling Alan Smithee @mental_floss

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Courtesy of Stacy Conradt, here are some stories of "non-existent" writers who received credit for scripts they didn't actua...
February 11, 2018

Spy/Not Spy @saltpublishing

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From novelist Guy Ware , at Salt Publishing's blog: Ten spies who weren't actually spies . Discussion ranges from Leonard Mosley...
February 10, 2018

Bilbo Baggins, Defendant: Law In Tolkien @MizzouLaw

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HATTS (Historical and Theatrical Trial Society) of the University of Missouri School of Law has announced the trial of Bilbo Baggins of Ba...
February 9, 2018

Gendered Emotions in History: Website and Conference @thomgiddens, @maksdelmar

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The launch of a new website devoted to the study of gendered emotions in history, and a conference on the subject, June 29, 2018, at the Un...

Speaking of America's Most Wanted...@mental_floss

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It's Friday evening. Time for some interesting facts about America's Most Wanted, courtesy of Mental Floss! You're welcome. C...

"Till the One Day When the Lady Met This Fellow" @Slate @craigtimes

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Craig Pittman floats a theory explaining exactly how they "all became the Brady Bunch," here for Slate.  It's straight out of...
February 8, 2018

"The Good Place"'s Good Profs--Philosophically Speaking @chronicle @CQuintanaDC @UCLA @ClemsonUniv

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From the Chronicle of Higher Education, a discussion of the profs who help the TV series The Good Place find its philosophical footing. 

New From Jonathan Abrams: All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of "The Wire" @Jpdabrams @ringer

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New from Jonathan Abrams: All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of "The Wire" (Random House, 2018) The definitive oral his...
February 7, 2018

Island and Mainland: Perspectives on Law and Humanities, Conference at St. Mary's University, February 27, 2018 @thomgiddens

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Via @thomgiddens: Registration now open:  Perspectives on Law and Humanities, February 27, 2018: St. Mary's University, London. Isl...

Call for Papers: Law, Comics, Justice: Graphic Justice Research Alliance Annual Conference, St. Francis College, October 20, 2018 @thomgiddens @LexComica

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CFP and announcement of the Law, Comics, Justice Graphic Justice Research Alliance Annual Conference, St. Francis College, October 20, 2018...

Cooking With the Legal Humanities, Via @dphourigan @thomgiddens

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Via Thom Giddens's wonderful blog, Law, etc, a law and humanities related recipe. From the Land of Oz, it's Spaghetti Carbonara à l...

Call for Papers: Graphic Justice: Law, Comics, and Related Visual Media, SLSA Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2018, University of Bristol Law School @thomgiddens

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Via @thomgiddens: Graphic Justice: Law, Comics, and Related Visual Media This stream invites submissions exploring the intersections...
February 5, 2018

Carey Young Presents "Performing the Law," March 6, 2018 @SladeSchool @BirkbeckLaw @thomgiddens

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Carey Young, Artist, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, and Honorary Research Fellow, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, wi...

ICYMI: Herz on The Art of Justice: The Judge's Perspective @hartpublishing

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ICYMI: Ruth Herz, Research Associate, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, The Art of Justice: The Judge's Perspective (Hart ...

ICYMI: Heritage, Culture, and Rights (Andrew Durbach and Lucas Lixinski, eds., Hart Publishing, 2017) @hartpublishing

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ICYMI: Heritage, Culture, and Rights (Andrea Durbach and Lucas Lixinski, eds., Hart Publishing, 2017). Cultural heritage law and its re...

Lynch on the Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of United States Law in the Early Republic @hartpublishing

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New from Hart Publishing: David Lynch, English Circuit Judge (ret.), Honorary Fellow and Visiting Research Fellow of Liverpool John Moores...

A Competition To Illustrate a New Edition of Sherlock Holmes' Adventures and Memoirs

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The Guardian publishes the finalists in its competition to illustrate a new edition of The Selected Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holm...

Muller on What's Old Is New Again: The Nineteenth Century Vote Registration Debates and Lessons About Voter Identification Disputes @derektmuller

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Derek T. Muller, Pepperdine School of Law; University of Iowa College of Law, has published What's Old is New Again: The Nineteenth Cen...

Lesaffer on The Lore and Laws of Peace-Making in Early-Modern and 19th-Century European Peace Treaties @TilburgLawNews

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Randall Lesaffer, Tilburg Law Schoo; KU Leuven Faculty of Law, has published The Lore and Laws of Peace-Making in Early-Modern and 19th-Cen...
February 2, 2018

Neelam and Zaidi on a Postmodern Study of Environmental Conversion from Natural to Technological in Neuromancer Through the Lens of Ecocide @GreatDismal

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Asma Neelam, National University of Modern Languages, and Saba Zaidi, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University, Department of English, ha...
February 1, 2018

Schlegel on Teaching Law in a Bureaucratic Age @UBSchoolofLaw

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John Henry Schlegel, University of Buffalo School of Law, is publishing To Dress for Dinner: Teaching Law in a Bureaucratic Age in volume ...

Call For Chapter Abstracts: Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland @routledgebooks @thomgiddens

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From the mailbox: via @thomgiddens and sheinz@austin.utexas.edu Call for Chapter Abstracts Deadline for 750-word proposals: March ...