March 31, 2018

ICYMI: Trials, Edited by Martha M. Umphrey (Taylor and Francis, 2017) @tandfonline

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ICYMI: Trials (Martha Merrill Umphrey, ed., Taylor and Francis, 2017). This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays writ...
March 30, 2018

Forthcoming From DeGruyter: As You Law It: Negotiating Shakespeare, edited by Daniela Carpi and François Ost @degruyter_lit

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Forthcoming from DeGruyter: As You Law It: Negotiating Shakespeare ( Daniela Carpi and François Ost, eds., 2018) (Law and Literature; 15...

Poetry and the Federal Rules @RuleHaiku

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Are the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure just a little too much in their unvarnished form? Try them out in seventeen syllables each, courte...

Bricker on After the Golden Age: Libel, Caricature, and the Deverbalization of Satire

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Andrew Bricker, Ghent University of Belgium, has published After the Golden Age: Libel, Caricature, and the Deverbalization of Satire, at 5...

Burset on Why the Common Law Didn't Follow the Flag

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Christian Burset, NYU School of Law; Yale University Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Department of History (PhD candidate), is publishing W...

Lloyd on Why Legal Writing Is Doctrinal and More Importantly Profound @LloydEsq

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Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest School of Law, has published Why Legal Writing is 'Doctrinal' and More Importantly Profound . Her...

Amy Werbel's New Book on Anthony Comstock and Censorship in the Gilded and Progressive Periods; "Lust on Trial" @awerbel @LustonTrial @ColumbiaUP

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Amy Werbel, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, is publishing Lust on Trial:Censorship and the Rise of American...
March 29, 2018

Maryland Appellate Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling, Retrial, in Syed Case, Featured On "Serial" @serial

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The Maryland Special Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling overturning Adnan Syed's conviction for murder and ordering a ne...
March 28, 2018

ICYMI: Sobecki on A Southwark Tale: Gower, the 1381 Poll Tax, and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales @SebSobecki

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ICYMI: Sebastian Sobecki, University of Groningen, has published  A Southwark Tale: Gower, the 1381 Poll Tax, and Chaucer’s The Canterbury ...

ICYMI: Stern on Law and Narrative: A Bibliography of Recent Work @ArsScripta

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ICYMI: Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Law and Narrative: A Bibliography of Recent Work. Here is the abs...

Henderson on The Intersectional Life and Times of Lutie A Lytle @ProfTajaNia

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Taja-Nia Y. Henderson, Rutgers School of Law, Newark, has published ‘I Shall Talk to My Own People’: The Intersectional Life and Times of L...
March 27, 2018

Twenty-Five Classic Crime Novels, Twenty-Five Evenings @CrimeReads

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From Crime Reads, a list of 25 classic crime novels that you can read quickly or savor for hours or days. The list includes well-known wo...
March 26, 2018

Leary on the First Woman To Graduate From the University of Michigan Law School, First To Pass the Bar @LawPals

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ICYMI: Margaret A. Leary published Michigan 's First Woman Lawyer: Sarah Killgore Wertman at 48 Law Quad. Notes 8 (2006). Link to the...

Appleman on Deviancy, Disability, and Dependency: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration @lawandlitprof

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Laura I. Appleman, Willamette University College of Law, is publishing Deviancy, Disability, and Dependency: The Forgotten History of Eugen...

Newman on John Sherman, Russell Alger, and the Origins of the Sherman Act

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Patrick Newman, Florida Southern College, is publishing Revenge: John Sherman, Russell Alger and the Origins of the Sherman Act in volume ...

Ruskola on Corporation Law in Late Imperial China

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Teemu Ruskola, Emory University School of Law, is publishing Corporation Law in Late Imperial China in Research Handbook on the History of...
March 23, 2018

Mignanelli on John Grisham's Appearances in Judicial Opinions @nmignanelli

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Nicholas Mignanelli, University of Miami School of Law, is publishing The Runaway Judge: John Grisham's Appearance in Judicial Opinions...
March 22, 2018

Immortalize Those Peeps! Enter the ABA's Peeps in Law Contest @ABAJournal @Molly_McDonough @Stranger_Things

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ICYMI: They're not just for eating: use those marshmallow peeps to express your legal connection to the Upside Down. Enter the ABA...

Stark on A Death of One's Own: Literature, Law, and the Right to Die @eckerdcollege

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Jared Stark, Eckerd College, has published A Death of One's Own: Literature, Law, and the Right to Die (Northwestern University Press, ...

Cheah and Vormbaum on British War Crimes Trials in Europe and Asia, 1945-1949: A Comparative Study @Cheah_WL

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W. L. Cheah, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, and Moritz Vormbaum, Humboldt University of Berlin, are publishing British W...
March 21, 2018

Harris on Secularizing a Religious Legal System: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Early Eighteenth Century England

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Troy L. Harris, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, has published Secularizing a Religious Legal System: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction...

Unconscious States: Is There Anybody There? Dr. Andrew Hanrahan, Speaker, St. Mary's University, March 22, 2018 @CBET_StMarys @thomgiddens

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From Trevor G. Stammers, Reader in Bioethics, Director, Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies, St. Mary's University On Thur...

Ayres on Claudia Rankine's "Citizen": Documenting and Protesting America's Halting March Toward Racial Justice and Equality @TAMULawSchool

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Susan Ayres, Texas A&M University School of Law, is publishing Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen': Documenting and Protesting Amer...
March 20, 2018

Hulsebosch on Protecting Foreign Expectations in the Early United States @nyulaw

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Daniel J. Hulsebosch, New York University School of Law, is publishing From Imperial to International Law: Protecting Foreign Expectations ...

Howlin on The Trials of Peter Barrett @N_Howlin @ucddublin

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Niamh Howlin, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, has published The Trials of Peter Barrett: A Microhistory of Dysfunction...
March 16, 2018

When the Snow Hits Your Eye on a Day in---March, Itsa Lawyer @ABAesq @Kirkland_Ellis

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I thought this video  was great when the media was reporting that it was about a man in an Elsa outfit pushing a police car out of a snow b...
March 14, 2018

ABA Announces Silver Gavel Awards Winners For 2018 @ABAesq

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The American Bar Association has announced its finalists for the Silver Gavel Award for 2018.   They include BOOKS The Chickenshit Cl...

Steilen on How to Think Constitutionally About Prerogative @MJSteilen

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Matthew J. Steilen, State University of New York at Buffalo, Law School, is publishing How to Think Constitutionally About Prerogative: A S...
March 12, 2018

What You Can Do With a Law Degree: Teach Criminal Law and Write and Perform Songs @RobCurrieMusic

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Rob Currie, professor of law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, teaches Canadian and international criminal law . So far,...

Superheroes and Law Degrees @YaleLawLibrary

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ICYMI: Did Batman go to Yale Law School? See Michael Widener's discussion at the Yale Law Library's blog.

CFP: Workshop on Cultural Expertise and Litigation in the History of Law, Oxford, July 4, 2018 @thomgiddens @OxfordCSLS

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Call for papers:  Workshop on Cultural Expertise and Litigation in the History of Law, to be held at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Un...
March 11, 2018

Legalrama @TheLawMap @legalcheek @BarristerSecret

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The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret, "wears a black cape and fights crime") analyzes the law in Bananarama's "Love in...
March 8, 2018

Kerr on Aesthetic Play and Bad Intent @GeorgetownLaw

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Andrew Jensen Kerr, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing Aesthetic Play and Bad Intent in Minneosta Law Review Headnotes (2018)...

A Suits Spinoff Is in the Offing @USA_Network

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USA has greenlit the Suits spinoff which stars Gina Torres (Jessica Pearson) and will feature the character as a Chicago politician. Aaron ...
March 7, 2018

Allen on Doctrinal Reasoning as a Disruptive Practice

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Jessie Allen, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law, is publishing Doctrinal Reasoning as a Disruptive Practice in volume 6 of the Journ...

Kessler and Pozen's Response To Barzun's Response To Kessler and Pozen on the Life Cycle of Legal Theories @jeremykkessler @ColumbiaLaw @UVALaw

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Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen, both of Columbia University Law School, have published Some Legal Realism About Legal Theory as Columbia Pu...

Kar on Formal Argument That Contract Meaning Depends On Linguistic Cooperation @UIllinoisLaw

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Robin Bradley Kar, University of Illinois College of Law, has published Formal Argument that Contract Meaning Depends on Linguistic Coopera...
March 6, 2018

Call For Papers: Murder, She Tweeted: Crime Narratives and the Digital Age, August 23-24, 2018, University of Tampere, Finland @thomgiddens @tiina_mantymaki

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Murder, She Tweeted: Crime Narratives and the Digital Age August 23-24, 2018 University of Tampere, Finland Keynote speakers:...

Goodman on Nevertheless She Persisted: From Mrs. Bradwell To Annalise Keating: Gender Bias In the Courtroom

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Christine Chambers Goodman, Pepperdine University School of Law, is publishing Nevertheless She Persisted: From Mrs. Bradwell to Annalise K...
March 5, 2018

John Copenhaver on Parallels Between the Crime Novel and the Coming Out Narrative @ElectricLit @CutterStreeby @johncopenhaver

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John Copenhaver discusses similarities between the crime novel and the coming-out novel. He begins by saying, The act of coming out is a...

CFP: Law and Humanities Forum of the MLA Plans Session on Literature, Law, and Violence at Next Year's Convention @MLANews

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The Law and Humanities Forum of the Modern Language Association  is sponsoring a guaranteed session on "Literature, Law, and Violence...

Rodriguez-Navarro and Zambrano on One Myth of the Classical Natural Law Theory: Relfecting on the "Thin" View of Legal Positivism @LawatSurrey

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Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, University of Surrey, Centre for Law and Philosophy, and Pilar Zambrano, University of Navarra, have published O...
March 2, 2018

Postema on Meaning, Analysis, and Exposition: Bentham on the Technology of Thought

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Gerald J. Postema, University of North Carolina, Philosophy and Law, is publishing Meaning, Analysis, and Exposition: Bentham on the Techno...

Sykes and Tranter on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Natural Law @GriffLawSchool

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Robbie Sykes and Kieran Mark Tranter, both of Griffith University Law School, are publishing The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Natura...
March 1, 2018

Holtermann, Introduction to Alf Ross: On Law and Justice @JakovoHoHo

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Jakob v. H. Holtermann, University of Copenhagen, iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, has published Alf Ross: On Law an...

Stern on Copyright as a Property Right? Authorial Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century England @ArsScripta @UCILawReview

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Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Copyright As a Property Right? Authorial Perspectives in Eighteenth-Centur...
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...