Law & Humanities Blog

Helen J. Knowles, SUNY Oswego, has published Learning the Law in 1830s Massachusetts: The Contrasting Experiences of Wendell Phillips and Ly...

Mark William Osler, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), is publishing Review Essay: Theaters of Pardoning in Criminal Justi...

Jacqueline D. Lipton, University of Pittsburgh Law School, has published Law and Authors: A Legal Handbook For Authors (University of Calif...

 A plethora of attorneys on the Hallmark Mystery Movie mini-series Darrow & Darrow . Lawyer characters include Joanna Darrow (Wendie Mal...

 Via Sam Brunson at Loyola Chicago Law, this piece by Leandra Lederman, Indiana University School of Law, about Superman and his tax problem...

Newly published: Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights (M. C. Mirow and Howard W. Wasserman, eds....

  New from Katharina Isabel Schmidt of Yale Law School and Princeton University: Theodor Sternberg and the Closet of Conceptualism  at the b...

From Professor Thom Giddens, Dundee Law School: For the first 2021 InterLaw Guest Lecture, Dundee Law School will be hosting Professor Kat...

ICYMI: Cassandra Sharp, Law School, University of Wollongong, has published #Vulnerability – Expectations of Justice through Accounts of Te...

Michael D. Murray, University of Kentucky College of Law, has published A New Methodology for the Analysis of Visuals in Legal Works . Here ...

David V. Snyder, American University College of Law, has published Metamorphoses in the Law of Contract: Mythological Reflections . Here is ...

Mario Ricca, University of Parma, is publishing Perpetually Astride Eden’s Boundaries: The Limits to the ‘Limits of Law’ and the Semiotic In...

Charles J. Reid, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Thomas Aquinas on Tyrannicide as U of St. Thomas (Minnes...

James Fishman, Pace University School of Law, has published A Random Stroll Amongst Anthony Trollope’s Lawyers . Here is the abstract. Ant...

Valentin Jeutner, Lund University Faculty of Law, is publishing Law's Image of the Human in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2020)....

François Ost, Saint-Louis University, Brussels, and Thomas Schultz, King's College London, have published Literary Inspirations for Int...

  Tressie McMillan Cottom has published  The Black Ton: From Bridgerton to Love & Hip-Hop at Medium. Here's an excerpt. The Blac...

Emily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Beckett University, has published American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit (Rowman & Littlefiel...

Newly published: Monsters, Law, Crime: Explorations in Gothic Criminology (Caroline Joan S. Picart, ed., Rowman & Littlefield for Fair...

Frederic R. Kellogg, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; George Washington University, has published Pragmatism, Logic, and Law (Lexington...

Fleur Johns, University of New South wales Faculty of Law, has published Songs and Static: Legalities of White Noise . Here is the abstract....

Mark Leeming, University of Sydney Law School, has published Lawyers' Uses of History, from Entick v Carrington to Smethurst v Commissio...

ICYMI: Robert N. Strassfeld, Case Western Reserve School of Law, has published Vietnam War on Trial: The Court-Martial of Dr. Howard B. Lev...

Laura T. Kessler, University of Utah College of Law, is publishing Family Law by the Numbers: The Story That Casebooks Tell in volume 62 of...

Michaela Serban, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and Monica Ciobanu have published Law, History, and Justice in Romania: New Directions in Law...

Brian Bix, University of Minnesota Law School, has published Reflections on Truth in Law in 8 Cosmos + Taxis (2020). Here is the abstract. ...

Aaron Haviland is publishing Misreading the History of Presidential War Power, 1789-1860 in volume 24 of the Texas Review of Law & Poli...

Phil Crockett Thomas, University of Glasgow, is publishing Crime as an Assemblage in the Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Crimino...

Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published References to Children's Stories and Fairy Tales in Judicial Opin...

Lesley Wexler, University of Illinois College of Law, is publishing #MeToo and Law Talk in volume 29 of the University of Chicago Law Forum...

Victoria Barnes, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, has published Inte...

John Acevedo,  University of Alabama School of Law, has published Law's Gaze as University of Alabam Legal Studies Research Paper No. ...

John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law, Robert H. Jackson Center, has published Some Alexander Hamilton, But Not So Much H...

Mark Cooney, Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, has published Larry Potter and the Deathly Canon at 99 Mich. B. J. 48 (Sept. 20...

Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing Constructing Interpretation in the Boston University Law Review. Her...

Mary Whisner, University of Washington School of Law, has published Douglas Hires a Woman to Clerk 2020 Green Bag Almanac and Reader 297–310...

ICYMI: Ediberto Roman, Florida International University College of Law, has published LatCrit VI, Outsider Jurisprudence and Looking Beyond...

  The Law and Society Association has issued a Call For Submissions for its 2021 Meeting in Chicago and virtually. The dates are May 27-30, ...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Proximate Causation in Legal Historiography in History and Theory (2020). ...

Manuela Bragagnolo, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, is publishing C...

Neil James Foster, Newcastle Law School, has published Statutory Construction and Biblical Hermeneutics- Law in the Service of the Gospel? ...

A piece by my former student, Danielle Maddox Kinchen: Only the Best and the Brightest: No Room for the Average Female Lawyer in the 21st-C...

Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School, is publishing Lawyers and Historians Argue About the Constitution in volume 35 of Constitutional Commentar...

  The UCLA School of Law is accepting applications for a FRONTLINE Fellow for the Documentary Film Legal Clinic. The Fellow will support t...

Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School, has published Textualism and the Duck-Rabbit Illusion . Here is the abstract. Textualists insist th...

Oren Perez, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, is publishing Tolerance of Incoherence in Law, Graded Speech Acts and Illocutionary Pluralis...

ICYMI: The late Peter Tiersma, Loyola Marymount, University, published The Origins of Legal Language in The Oxford Handbook on Language an...

Helge Dedek, McGill University Faculty of Law, is publishing Out of Site: Transnational Legal Culture(s) in The Oxford Handbook of Transnat...

  This is a reminder that the call for papers for Graphic Justice Discussions 2020, the annual conference of the Graphic Justice Research Al...

Craig Green, Temple University School of Law, is publishing Erie and Constitutional Structure: An Intellectual History in the Akron Law Revi...