Law & Humanities Blog

Now available: The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First ...

Call For Submissions The South African Society for Critical Theory (SASCT) invites abstract submissions of up to 500 words for its 3rd A...

Via @ThomGiddens: CfP: Law, Power, and Justice in Game of Thrones:  HBO’s award-winning adaptation of George Martin’s A Song of Ice an...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason Univesrity Law School; The Green Bag, is publishing Sailors and Rum, at Sea and Ashore in Deadly Harpoon: A F...

Debra S. Austin, University of Denver College of Law, is publishing Windmills of Your Mind: Understanding the Neurobiology of Emotion in t...

Via Shannon Kilpatrick: news of a blog devoted to law and Game of Thrones:   Laws of Fire and Ice . The author is attorney Clint Woods.   A...

ICYMI: Joseph Jenkins, Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton (Routledge, 2016). Reading God...

Scott D. Gerber, Ohio Northern University College of Law, is publishing Law and Liberty of Conscience in Colonial Pennsylvania in volume 1...

Doug Magendanz, Independent Scholar, has published Church Power, Sovereignty and Freedom of Religion in Thomas Hobbes . Here is the abstrac...

The online site Hedgehogs and Foxes ( https://hedgehogsandfoxes.org/ ) is seeking essays, book reviews, articles, teaching materials, and o...

Law/Text/Culture is seeking proposals and a guest editor for its special issue of volume 24 (2020). The issue is due for publication in Dec...

ICYMI: Sameer Boray, NALSAR University of Law, has published Depiction of Disabilities in Movies: Disability Portrayal in the Media Throu...

Via ABA Publishing and Yahoo News: Norwegian law enforcement has captured the Night King.  Lots of pictures, including a mug shot. More her...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag, is publishing Sherlock Holmes: Expert Witness in Canon Law: Lawyers, La...

Sherally Munshi, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing White Slavery and the Crisis of Will in the Age of Contract in volume 30 ...

Michael D. Murray, University of Kentucky College of Law, is publishing Mise en Scène and the Decisive Moment of Visual Legal Rhetoric in ...

A new edition of the Memoires of Herve de Tocqueville, now available: Tocqueville, Hervé de Tocqueville, Les Mémoires d’Hervé de Tocquev...

New from University of Westminster Press: Law and the Senses (Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, and Andreas Philippoulos-Mih...

George A. Rutherglen, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Reconstruction in Legal Theory as Virginia Public Law and Legal ...

From the emailbox: An announcement of a fascinating conference on Law and Opera, taking place on May 6th, at the University of Turin. The...

New from Mare & Martin: Du droit dans Game of Thrones (Quentin Le Pluard and Péran Plouhinec, eds., 2019). Here is the description ...

David P. Weber, Creighton University School of Law, is publishing Legal Structures in a Game of Thrones: The Laws of the First Men and Thos...

Kim Kardashian West is apparently starting on a new career. According to this article in Vogue, she's apprenticing to become a lawyer. ...

L. Joe Dunman, Morehead State University, is publishing The Devil in Recent American Law in the Pace Law Review (forthcoming). Here is the...

Neal Goldfarb, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation: When Is It (In)appropriate? Her...

Northeastern University School of Law parodies "The Office" with this video. What you can do with that law degree!

Alan Calnan, Southwestern Law School, has published Law's Coevolution . Here is the abstract. One of most pervasive maxims of Americ...

The International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law (Argumentation Conference Brno) will take place October 18th, 2...

S. I. Strong, University of Missouri School of Law, is publishing Past As Prologue: Arbitration as an Early Common Law Court in volume 57 ...

From the emailbox: The University of Perugia invites streams and papers for the 2019 Critical Legal Conference. The event will take place...

From the emailbox: On April 25 and April 26, 2019, the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (U...

An announcement from Max Houghton regarding the launch of Visible Justice, the Exhibition: David Birkin and I have been working since Ja...

From the mailbox: Reader on Cultural Expertise - Call for Chapters   Cultural expertise is an emergent concept defined as special knowl...

John Mikhail, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing James Wilson, Early American Land Companies, and the Original Meaning of ...

Jane Manners, New York Historical Society, has published Congress and the Problem of Legislative Discretion, 1790-1870  (Dissertation, Prin...

John Felipe Acevedo, University of Alabama School of Law, has published Witch-Hunts and Crime Panics in America . Here is the abstract. ...

Dmitry Polknikov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, has published Two Divergent Approaches to Comparative Legal Stud...

Reminder: the journal Noesis has issued a CFP for its Spring 2020 issue, The Philosophy of Customary Law. The deadline is June 1st, 2019. Y...