Law & Humanities Blog

Steven F. Friedell, Rutgers Law School, has published Judge William Marvin and the Law of Salvage at 12 British Journal of American Legal S...

D. Brock Hornby and Emma Akrawi have published History Lessons: Instructive Legal Episodes from Maine's Early Years — Episode 3: An Ensl...

Risa L. Goluboff, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing “Charlottesville” as Legal History in volume 1 of the Journal of Amer...

David B. Kopel, Independence Institute; Denver University College of Law; Cato Institute, and Joseph Greenlee, The Heartland Institute; Fire...

Joanna Brown, Columbia Law School, is publishing Laughing All the Way to the Bench: The Role of Humor in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings...

Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University College of Law, and Ute Roemer, Georgia State University, are publishing Can a President Be Im...

F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico; University of Central Florida, has published Adam Smith and the Balliol C...

Robin Paul Malloy, Syracuse University College of Law, has published Adam Smith's Market Jurisprudence at 73 Syracuse Law Review 159 (2...

Lawrence Rosenthal, Chapman University School of Law, is publishing Nonoriginalist Laws in an Originalist World: Litigating Original Meaning...

From Professor Timothy Peters, University of the Sunshine Coast, the CFP for the 2023 LLHAA Conference: It is our delight to share the call ...

Reva Siegel, Yale University Law School, is publishing How "History and Tradition" Perpetuates Inequality: Dobbs on Abortion's...

James E. Pfander, Northwestern University School of Law, is publishing Public Law Litigation in Eighteenth Century America: Diffuse Law Enfo...

Francesca Laguardia, Montclair State University, has published Pain That Only She Must Bear: On the Invisibility of Women in Judicial Aborti...

Newly published: Haiyan Lee, A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2023) . Her...

 Forthcoming from Oxford University Press: Stephen Bogle, Contract Before the Enlightenment: The Ideas of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, 1...

James Caton, North Dakota State University, Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics; American Institute for Economic Research; Nort...

Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press: Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago, Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron (2023)....

Jennifer Elisa Chapman, University of Maryland School of Law, University of Maryland Thurgood Marshall Law Library, has published Slave Case...

Vasiliy Glushak, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), has published The Status of Loanwords in German . Here is the ab...

David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy, and Thomas M. Poole, London School of Economics, Law Sch...

Andrew Jensen Kerr, Peking University School of Transnational Law, is publishing When To Admit Art as Evidence in the Washington Universit...

Christoph B. Graber, University of Zurich Faculty of Law, is publishing Copyright Insight Out: A Legal Sociologist's Perspective in Kri...

Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern University School of Law, is publishing Madison's Non Sequitur: A Comment on Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Relig...

Richard Albert, University of Texas at Austin, School of Law, Department of Government; Yale University; University of Toronto, Faculty of L...

Peter Grajzl, Washington and Lee University, Department of Economics; CESifo, and Peter Murrell, Department of Economics, have published A M...

Alan Coffee, King's College London, The Dickson Poon School of Law, is publishing Catharine Macaulay and Edmund Burke in Reconsidering ...

Alan J. Meese, William & Mary Law School, has published The Constitutional Moment that Wasn't: 1912-1914 and the Meaning of the Sher...

Kellyn O. McGee has published From Clair to Annalise: how to get away with being a black woman lawyer on television in International Journal...

Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing #Metoo and the Corporation in Popular Culture in the Seattle University...

Newly published: Paul Raffield, University of Warwick, Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2023). Here from th...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Defining Obscenity before Hicklin: Corrupting Texts in the Seventeenth and...

Nimer Sultany, University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies, School of Law, is publishing 'Revolution' , in The Ca...

Bill Watson, Harvard Law School, is publishing Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech in Law & Philosophy. Here is the abstract. ...

A workshop on the theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions will be held on   Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 July, 2023   in central London. Organise...

Daniel B. Yeager, California Western School of Law, has published A History of Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (1916-1942) . Here is the abstrac...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School, and W. Tanner Allread, Stanford University, Department of History, have published We the (Native) Peo...

Imogen Gould, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, and Catherine Kelly, University of Bristol, have published Who’s Afraid of Imaginary Cla...

Newly Published: Kathleen Brown, Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)...

Guest Post from Christian Fritz, Emeritus Professor, University of New Mexico School of Law: On the origins of his new book, Monitoring Amer...

Benjamin Eidelson and Matthew Stephenson, both of Harvard Law School, are pusblishing  The Incompatibility of Substantive Canons and Textual...

Kevin Tobia, Georgetown University Law Center; Department of Philosophy, is publishing We're Not All Textualists Now in the NYU Annual ...