Law & Humanities Blog

Meghan O'Gieblyn discusses how we are currently debating the potential governing of Mars, now that colonizing that planet is a real pos...

Brian Z. Tamanaha, Washington University, St. Louis, School of Law, is publishing Sociological Jurisprudence Past and Present in Law and S...

PEN America is accepting applications for its Writing For Justice Fellowships. These fellowships support emerging or established writers in...

Stephen R. Alton, Texas A & M School of Law, has published Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Holmes: A Tale of Two Testaments as a Texas A& M U...

Some news on storytelling and legal education via AALS and Cision.  BYU Law held its first storytelling initiative on March 18. Ten invited...

Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, University of Missouri, Kansas City, is published Scènes à Faire As Identity Trait Stereotyping in volume 2 of the B...

Here ICYMI:  More from Julia Laite, Reader in Modern History, University of London: Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial...

April Anderson, Independent Scholar, has published Peremptory Challenges at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Development of Modern Jury ...

ICYMI: Julia A. Laite, Taking Nellie Johnson's Fingerprints: Prostitutes and Legal Identity in Early Twentieth Century London , 65 Hi...

Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, is publishing An Anti-Liberal Defense of Free Speech: Foundations of Democracy...

Elizabeth Sepper, Washington University School of Law, is publishing Sex in Public in volume 129 of the Yale Law Journal. Here is the abst...

David Clarke, Cardiff University, is publishing Tourists As Post-Witnesses in Documentary Film: Sergei Loznitsa's Austerlitz (2016) and...

James M. McGoldrick, Pepperdine University School of Law, is publishing The Dormant Commerce Clause: The Origin Story and the 'Consider...

Thomas Mohr, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, has published Leo Kohn and the Law of the British Empire as UCD Working ...

Desmond Manderson, Australian National University, is publishing Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts (Cambridge Univers...

Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice, in partnership with the  Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Austral...

Law Text Culture: Call for Proposals for Volume 24 (2020), due May 1, 2019  The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals ...

Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published References to Television Shows in Judicial Opinions and Written Advo...

From the mailbox: Call For Proposals: Persons in Poetry and Law Proposed Panel for MLA 2020 January 9-12, 2020 Seattle, WA   What rel...

Brian Sawers, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing Race and Property After the Civil War: Creating the Right to Exclude in volu...

Curtis Bradley and Neil Siegel, both of Duke University School of Law, have published Historical Gloss, Madisonian Liquidation, and the Ori...

New from McGill-Queen's University Press: Thierry Nootens, Genre, patrimoine et droit civil: Les femmes mariées de la bourgeoisie qué...

Matthew H. Birkhold, Assistant Professor of German and Assistant Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, is publishing  Characters Bef...

From the mailbox: The second edition of the  summer   school   Humor  and  Satire  in Contemporary Europe: Cultural, Political an...

From the mailbox: Via Barbara Fister, Gustavus Adolphus College Sisters in Crime is offering a grant for up to $500 to buy books to ...

Proposed Working Group, Modern Languages Association, Annual Convention, January 9-20, 2020 Embodied Reading Proposed working group, M...

From the mailbox: Call for Papers:  Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention,  Seattle, January 9-12, 2020 Law, Li...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Literary Analysis of Law: Reorienting the Connections Between Law and Lite...

Call For Papers: A Critical Guide to Civil Procedure Call for Papers Boston University School of Law (host; co-sponsors Seattle...

Randolph Hollingsworth has published Power of African-American Women Voters in Lexington's School Suffrage, 1895-1902: Race and the His...

James E. Pfander, Northwestern University School of Law, is publishing Dicey's Nightmare: An Essay on the Rule of Law in the Californi...

Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University College of Law, and Jesse Egbert, Northern Arizona University, have published Scientific Meth...

Reminder: The deadline for registration for the ASLCH Conference in Ottawa this year (March 22-23) at the early bird rate is Wednesday, F...

Nathan S. Chapman, University of Georgia School of Law, has published Money for Missionaries: Rethinking Establishment Clause History as Un...

Michael J. Cedrone, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing On the Values of Words in volume 23 of the Journal of the Legal Writin...

ICYMI: Geraldine Heng, University of Texas, Austin, has published The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge University P...

ICYMI: Celso Thomas Castilho has published The Press and Brazilian Narratives of Uncle Tom's Cabin: Slavery and the Public Sphere in R...

From Variety: NBC is casting a pilot for a new legal drama, Bluff City Law.  The show centers on a civil rights lawyer and his daughter (...

Volume 38, issue 1 (April 2017) is devoted to the topic "Reimagining Justice: Aesthetics and Law." It includes a number of fascin...

From the mailbox: The American Society for Legal History announces a call for nominations for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award. The AS...

ICYMI: Patricia Branco, Exploring Justitia Through Éowyn and Niobe: On Gender, Race and the Legal , 38 Liverpool Law Review 63 (2017). Her...

From the mailbox: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Law and Humanities Spring School 15-18 April 2019 RomaTre University Department of Law,...