Law & Humanities Blog

Kevin P. Tobia, Yale University; ETH Zurich, has published Testing Original Public Meaning . Here is the abstract. Various interpretive t...

Jani McCutcheon, University of Western Australia Law School, is publishing Works of Fiction: The Misconception of Literary Characters as Co...

From NPR, the story of "La Bamba," and its use in law, politics, and culture. Listen here.

The Australian National University College of Law Centre for Law, Arts, and the Humanities presents a Seminar on Vertigo: Fake news/real th...

Sergey Polskoy, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, has published The Concepts of Fundamental Laws and Constitution i...

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

Erika K. Wilson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, College of Law, has published The Legal Foundations of White Supremacy, 11 DeP...

ICYMI: Etienne Madranges, Les palais de justice de France (Lexis/Nexis, 2011). Ce livre est la mémoire du patrimoine judiciaire françai...

Forthcoming from Oxford University Press: Laura Little, Temple University School of Law, Guilty Pleasures: Comedy and Law in America (2018...

The Watergate Grand Jury report is now available. It has been under seal for nearly 45 years. Here's a link to the material. A short ...

Peter Murrell, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, has published The Independence of Judges Reduced Legal Development in Engla...

Judith Resnik, Yale University Law School, is publishing On Darkness and Light in Legal Imagination and Practice: A Foreword to the Dark Si...

Chris Butler and Karen Crawley, both of Griffith University Law School, have published Forms of Authority Beyond the Neoliberal State: Sove...

Newly published: Chenxi Tang, Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Ithaca: Cornell U...

Shai Wozner, Tel Aviv University, and Gilad Abiri, Yale University Law School, have published The Tree of Knowledge and the Birth of Normat...

Marina A. Pershina, University of Alcala, has published Metaphors of Crime and Punishment in Shakespeare’s 'Macbeth' . Here is the ...

Iker Nabaskues, University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Law, is publishing Law, Crime, Morals, and Sense of Justice in 'Treasure I...

Rebecca Gould, University of Birmingham; Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, is publishing Democracy and the...

Lauren Henry Scholz, Florida State College of Law, is publishing Big Data Is Not Big Oil: On Analogical Reasoning, New Technologies, and La...

Giancarlo Frosio, Université de Strasbourg - CEIPI; Stanford University - Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, is publishin...

Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School; University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication; University of Penn...

The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Day Conference, at the University of Edinburgh Date of Event 8 th  January 2019 Last Booki...

The Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) has opened its call for papers and posters for its April 3-5, 2019 conference. Send proposals by...

Eli Rosenberg at the Washington Post points out the "life imitates art" resemblances between Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN)'s n...

Jonathan Gingerich, Washington University, St. Louis, is publishing Remixing Rawls: Constitutionalizing Cultural Liberties in volume 11 of...

Lloyd Bonfield, New York Law School, has published Farewell Downton Abbey, Adieu Primogeniture and Entail: Britain's Brief Encounter wi...

Two Faculty Positions Open, Department of Sociology and Legal Studies, St. Jerome's University The Department of Sociology and Lega...

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities: Call for Proposals Extended Deadline We are pleased to announce tha...

Lapham's Quarterly offers this selection of interesting footnotes from cases, some well-known, some obscure. Included is a Ninth Circ...

Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School Television drama, law and national identity Symposium Ann...

The Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) is currently seeking candidates for two tenure-track assi...

Karen Fairweather, University of Auckland, has published Redressing Inequality in Personal Credit Transactions: 1700-1974 in 2017 Private ...

Volodymyr Machuskyy, Kyiv National Economic Univesrity named after Vadym Hetman, has published The Right of Blood-Revenge in a Medieval Ukr...

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, has publ...

Marcus Moore, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, has published The Past, Present, and Future of Law Reform in Canada at 6 Theory and Pr...

From the e-mailbox: The Detroit Mercy Law Review will host its 2019 Symposium, Women and the Law , on Mar. 8, 2019. The deadline for p...

From Karl Shoemaker: We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture ...

Matthias Goldmann, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Goethe University Frankfurt - Research Center SAF...

Evan Kindley examines Franz Kafka's desire to have his works destroyed after his death, his literary executor Max Brod's decision t...