Law & Humanities Blog

Thomas McSweeney, William & Mary Law School, is publishing Fiction in the Code in volume 34 of the Georgia State University Law Review...

Of interest from Rutgers University Pres s: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture Blair Davis, Comic Book Movies (Rutgers University Pr...

Steven J. Macias, Southern Illinois University School of Law, is publishing Utilitarian Constitutionalism: A Comparison of Bentham & Ma...

Margaret E. McGuinness, St. John's University, School of Law, is publishing Presidential Human Rights Talk in volume 56 of the Washburn...

You can once again watch the wonderful Mr. and Mrs. Loving, with Timothy Hutton and Lela Rochon (made for television, 1996), and not availa...

New in paperback: Allen Mendenhall, Faulkner University School of Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Ag...

The Supreme Court has denied cert in the "Making a Murderer" case , which gained traction after it because the basis for a popula...

Via Pop Culture Detective (@PopDetective), a video essay discussing the way pop culture (often film) depicts the relentless way that a man ...

Carlton Patrick, University of Central Florida, is publishing Evocative Advocates and Stirring Statesmen: Law, Politics, and the Weaponizat...

Andra Matei has published Art on Trial. Freedom of Artistic Expression and the European Court of Human Rights . Here is the abstract. Th...

Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing Law as a Malleable Artifact in Law as an Artifact (Lukas Burazin, K...

Giovanny Panginda and Gene Luen Yang explore the ethnic origins of comic book superheroes for inheritancemag.com.  Such characters come to...

Anthony J. Gaughan, Drake University Law School, has published D-Day, Collateral Damage, and the 1923 Hague Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare....

ICYMI: Merridee L. Bailey and Kimberley-Joy Knight, Writing Histories of Law and Emotion, 38 Journal of Legal History 117 (2017). Here i...

Daniel B. Klein and Erik Matson, both of George Mason University, Department of Economics, are publishing Mere-Liberty in David Hume in A ...

Thom Brooks, Durham University, and Diana Sankey, Liverpool John Moores University, have published Beyond Reason: The Legal Importance of E...

Forthcoming from Hart Publishing: Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating 100 Years of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland (Erika Rackley...

Via Benjamin Woodring, news that Judge Michael Baylson went literary in his ruling in favor of the City of Philadelphia, finding that the f...

Jessica Owley, University at Buffalo Law School, and Jess R. Phelps, Dinse, Knapp, & McAndrew, have published Understanding the Complic...

Forthcoming: Pierre Legendre, Lessons III: God in the Mirror: A Study of the Institution of Images (Translated by P. G. Young (Routledge, ...

Via the National Law Journal: Noted civil right attorney Ben Crump is launching Evidence of Innocence,  a new television show devoted to ...

José Calvo González, University of Malaga, has published La destreza de Judith: Estudios de Cultura literaria del Derecho (Granada: Editori...

Lee J. Strang, University of Toledo College of Law, has published An Evaluation of Historical Evidence for Constitutional Construction From...

Norman Ho, Peking University School of Transnational Law, is publishing Chinese Legal Thought in the Han-Tang Transition: Liu Song's (D...

The remarkable 8 part 2005 documentary The Staircase, which first aired in 2005, has gotten an update and has returned to Netflix as a 13 p...

The seventh season of Death in Paradise is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime. This very popular series now features a new D.I., ...

Bryan H. Wildenthal, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, is publishing Reflections on Spelling and the Shakespeare Authorship Question: 'Wh...

ICYMI: Julia Shaw, De Montfort University, has published Law and the Passions: A Discrete History (Routledge Publishing, 2016). Here fro...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School, has published Ranking the Olympians Before U.S. News: When Vanity Fair and The Bookman ...

David Marrani, Dean, Institute of Law, Jersey, has published Space, Time, Justice: From Archaic Rituals to Contemporary Perspectives (Rout...

From the emailbox: Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond,  2–4 July 2018, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Law a...

Kelsey Grammer will co-star in the new Fox legal drama Proven Innocent. He will take on the role of D. A. Gore Bellows . The series focuses...

Newly published by Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales (Chicoutimi, Quebec): Mémoires d’Hervé Clérel,Comte de Tocqueville, 1772-1856 (J...

Ulrich Bindseil, European Central Bank, has published Some Pre-1800 French and German Central Bank Charters and Regulations. Here is the a...

The Law Library has sent me up a copy of the new publication Fatal Fictions: Crime and Investigations in Law and Literature  (Alison L. LaC...

Claire A. Hill, University of Minnesota Law School, is publishing Cheap Sentiment in volume 81 of Law and Contemporary Problems (2018). He...

In this article for Variety,  Danielle Turchiano examines the popular culture image of the CIA on the hit FX television series The American...

Marcia Coyle examines the uses of Dickensian quotes in legal opinions in this piece for The National Law Journal, pointing out that Justi...

Timothy G. Kearley, University of Wyoming College of Law, has published Roman Law Scholarship and Translation in Early Twentieth-Century A...

Bart Wauters and Marco de Benito, both Professors of Law, IE University (Spain), have published The History of Law in Europe: An Introducti...

Jennifer Wilson, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses Feodor Dostoyevsky's relationship to today's e...

Nicholas Zinos, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, is publishing Fundamental Rights in Early American Case Law: 1789-1859 in volume 7 of the ...

M. C. Mirow, Florida International University, College of Law, is publishing Spanish Law and Its Expansion in the Oxford Handbook of Europ...

Daniel Shaviro, New York University School of Law, has published Gilded Age Literature and Inequality . Here is the abstract. We are an i...

Janne Elisabeth Nijman, T. M. C. Asser Institut, Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam, has published Seeking Cha...

The American Bar Association has announced the winners of the 2018 Silver Gavel Awards  for Media and the Arts. BOOKS Silver Gavel :  ...

Kevin Noble Maillard, Syracuse University College of Law, is publishing Hollywood Loving in volume 86 of the Fordham Law Review (2018). He...

Patrick Russell Goold, Harvard Law School, is publishing The Lost Tort of Moral Rights Invasion in the Akron Law review. Here is the abstr...

Scott L. Cummings, UCLA School of Law, is publishing Law and Social Movements: Reimagining the Progressive Canon in the Wisconsin Law Revi...

Bryan H. Wildenthal, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, is publishing Shapiro 'On the Media': Name-Calling and Bullying Students and D...