Law & Humanities Blog

Geoffrey Baker, Division of Humanities, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, has published Legal Others: The Knowledge of National Community in Nin...

Kristine S. Knaplund, Pepperdine University School of Law, has published Women and Wills: An Empirical Analysis of the Married Women's ...

Volume 6, issue 1, March 2018 of the London Review of International Law is devoted to issues of international law and justice on film.  T...

Paul H. Robinson, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Sarah Robinson, are publishing Crimes That Changed Our World: Tragedy, Outrage...

Kevin Crosby, Newcastle Law School, has published R v Shipley (1784): The Dean of St Asaph's Case in Landmark Cases in Criminal Law (P...

Hannah van Geffen has published Gender and Racial Identity in Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Discovery (Master...

Jessica Victoria Hidalgo, Loyola (NOLA) Law School, has published “Accio Due Process!” Solving the Due Process Crisis in the Wizarding Worl...

Michelle Farrell, University of Liverpool, School of Law and Social Justice, and Edel Hughes, University of Limerick, are publishing Magna ...

James R. Alexander, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, has published Publishing Peter Pindar: Production, Profits and Piracy in Georgian ...

Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), is publishing Editing the Wiktionary Entry for 'Female' in the Berkeley Journal...

Susan A. Bandes, DePaul University College of Law, is publishing Video, Popular Culture, and Police Excessive Force: The Elusive Narrative ...

Are films featuring lawyer-heroes out? Thane Rosenbaum thinks so. In a new essay for the ABA Journal, he says in part, When it comes to m...

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School, is publishing Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature a...

Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law, has published British Impeachments (1376 – 1787) & the Present American Cons...

Ziv Bohrer, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, is publishing The ‘Jolly Roger’ (Pirate Flag) in International Law's Objects (Jessie H...

Newly published: Jason Boatright, Texas Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, The History, Meaning and Use of the Words Justice and Judge, 49 S...

At the University of Utah's S. J. Quinney's College of Law, students can join   many interesting organizations, including the Jac...

New from Palgrave Macmillan: Judges, Judging and Humour (Jessica Milner Davis and Sharyn Roach Anleu, eds., 2018). Here is the descripti...

John W. F. Allison, Cambridge University Faculty of Law, has published The Westminster Parliament's Formal Sovereignty in Britain and E...

Contemporary Aesthetics Special Volume on “Aesthetics and Terrorism” NEW deadline: October 31, 2018 Contact: emmareto@enl.uoa.gr . T...

Call for Papers Surveillance, Social Media, & Identity  24th - 25th October 2018  De Montfort University, Clephan Building,...

Barak Orbach, University of Arizona, and Lindsey Huang, Perkins Coie, LLP, are publishing Con Men and Their Enablers: The Anatomy of Confid...

Mario Chacon and Jeff I. Jensen, both of New York University Abu Dhabi, have published Direct Democracy, Constitutional Reform, and Politic...

Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky College of Law, is publishing The Ballad of Harry James Tompkins in the Akron Law Review. Here is th...

New from Hart Publishing: Stephen Sedley, Law and the Whirligig of Time (Hart Publishing, 2018). For over 30 years, first as a QC, then ...

New from Hart Publishing: Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Dominus Mundi: Political Sublime and the World Order (Hart Publishing (2018). This mon...

New from Hart Publishing: Blackstone and His Critics (Anthony Page and Wilfrid Prest, eds., 2018). William Blackstone's Commentaries...

The 11th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory has issued its CFP. This year the theme is Facts, Law, and Critique. The Forum will take ...

From the ABA Journal: The 25 Greatest Legal Movies: Expanding the Boundaries . This story follows on 2008's The 25 Greatest Legal Movie...

New from Oxford University Press: The Oxford Handbook of Legal History (Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins, 2018) (Oxford Handbooks ...

Felice Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law, has published Deja Vu and the Gendered Origins of the Practice of Immigration Law, 1907-1940. ...

Richard Weisberg, Cardozo School of Law, has published Cardozo's 'Law and Literature': A Guide to His Judicial Writing Style at...

Barbara Rich explains how she became a lawyer, not a poet. Here, for Medium.

Call For Papers: ‘Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis, 1890-1950’, University of Sheffield, 11-13 April, 2019. Keynotes: Ravit R...

New from Routledge: Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters (Ashley Pearson,...

Rafael Domingo, Emory University School of Law; University of Navarra School of Law, is publishing Contardo Ferrini (1859–1902): A Contempl...