Law & Humanities Blog

Jonathan Crowe, Bond University School of Law, has published Natural Law and the Nature of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Here is...

Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published What We Talk About When We Talk About Law Schools: Deconstructing...

The AALS Section on Legal History is pleased to announce a call for papers for its section program, which will be held during the 2020 ...

Ashutosh Avinash Bhagwat, University of California, Davis, School of Law, is publishing Judge Johnson and the Kaleidoscopic First Amendment...

Scott Ingram, High Point University, is publishing George Washington's Attorneys: The Political Selection of United States Attorneys at...

Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School, and Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center, have published On Being Old Codgers: A Conve...

Norman Otto Stockmeyer, Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, has published Trailblazing Women Chief Justices , at The Mentor, Spr...

Michele LaVigne, University of Wisconsin Law School, and Sally Miles, Independent, are publishing Under the Hood: Brendan Dassey, Language ...

Call for Papers 4IR: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal Dimensions The conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of ...

The latest issue of the Journal of Legal Education (v. 68. no. 1), a symposium, is devoted to the topic of Visual Images and Popular Cultur...

Michael L. Perlin, New York Law School, has published 'You That Build the Death Planes': Bob Dylan, War and International Affairs ....

Babatunde Ajani Adeyemi, Babcock University, has published Modern Trends in Legal Thoughts: A Jurisprudential Outline . Here is the abstrac...

Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University School of Law, has published The Outcome of Influence: Hitler’s American Model and Transnational Legal Hi...

Political Theology Network Conference Columbia University & Union Theological Seminary New York City October 17-19, 2019 ***Ca...

ICYMI: Eugene Garver, Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Here from the publisher's website i...

Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, and Danielle Celermaier, University of Sydney, are published Introduction to 'A Cultural Histo...

From the email box: Law and Humanities Roundtable 2019 29 June, University of Warwick The interdisciplinary arena of law and hum...

The deadline to apply for a Writing for Justice Fellowship is now June 3, 2019. PEN America sponsors these fellowships, which "aim......

Herman Wouk has died at the age of 103 . The acclaimed author of The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War,   and many other works died at his Pal...

Elizabeth Rosenblatt, University of California Davis, is publishing  'What One Man Can Invent Another Can Discover:' The British Pa...

The ABA has announced the Silver Gavel Award winners for 2019.  BOOKS Silver Gavel: The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, ...

Mae C. Quinn, University of Florida College of Law, has published  Fallen Woman (Re)framed: Judge Jean Hortense Norris, New York City - 19...

The Call for Papers for the ESIL Interest Group History of International Law event on 12 September 2019 "New Histories of Sovereigns a...

Peter Brooks, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, is publishing Dying Declarations in Fictional Discourse and the Law (Hans J. ...

From the email box: Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global Mass incarceration and overcr...

Elaine Craig, Dalhousie University School of Law, is publishing Judicial Audiences: A Case Study of Justice David Watt's Literary Judgm...

Newly published: Trial Films on Trial: Law, Justice, and Popular Culture (Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, eds., ...

ICYMI: From the July, 2014, issue of the ABA Journal, Barry Malone's interview with attorney Charles Soule, who writes the She-Hulk com...

ICYMI: Paul McGrath, People v. Croswell: Alexander Hamilton and the Transformation of the Common Law of Libel, 7 Judicial Notice 5 (2011)...

Brian F. Haara has published  Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America  (Potomac Books, dist. by the University of Nebraska Press, 2...

Ilan Wurman, Arizona State University College of Law, is publishing The Origins of Substantive Due Process in the University of Chicago La...

Samuel J. Levine, Touro College Law Center, has published The Constitution as Poetry 49 Seton Hall L. Rev. 737 (2019). Here is the abstrac...

Zsolt Kortvelyesi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, has published Game of Norms: Law...

Or Bassok, University of Nottingham, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, has published The Mysterious Meeting between Carl Schmitt and Jose...

Imer B. Flores, Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), has published Law as an Artefact. H...

Now available from Cambridge University Press: Jonathan Crowe, Bond University, has published Natural Law and the Nature of Law (2019). H...

Nora Stappert, University of Copenhagen, iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, has published A New Influence of Legal Sch...

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...