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September 29, 2025

Workshop for Junior Scholars, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, June 8-9, 2026

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 Workshop for Junior Scholars Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Penns...
September 24, 2025

New From Hart Publishing: Picart on Countering Jihadi Cool: Narrative, Law, and Philosophy Against Global Jihad (2025)

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New from Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart, Countering Jihadi Cool: Narrative, Law, and Philosophy Against Global Jihad (Hart Publishi...

Cultures of Legality in Weimar Germany: Next Series of Lectures at the University of Lucerne

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From Dr. Stephen Howe, Senior Research and Lecturer, Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Iucernaiuris, ...
September 23, 2025

Call For Papers: Socio-Legal Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference, Dance/Law Current Topic

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From Dr. Sean Mulcahy,  Research Officer,  Gender, Law and Drugs Program, LaTrobe University: The call for papers for the Socio-Legal Studie...
September 22, 2025

ICYMI: Barbas on The Story of Beauharnais v. Illinois

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ICYMI: Samantha Barbas, University of Iowa Collee of Law, has published The Story Of Beauharnais v. Illinois at 2 Journal of Free Speech Law...

Wieboldt on Ideas With(out) Consequences?: The Natural Law Institute and the Making of Conservative Constitutionalism During the Cold War, 1947-1951

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Dennis J. Wieboldt, III, is publishing Ideas With(out) Consequences?: The Natural Law Institute and the Making of Conservative Constitutiona...

Monopoli on A "New" New Departure

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Paula A. Monopoli, University of Maryland School of Law, has pulished A "New" New Departure at 102 Washington University Law Revi...

Katz on "May It Please Her Honor": The United States' First Women Juges, 1870-1930

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Elizabeth D. Katz, University of Florida College of Law, has published "May It Please Her Honor": The United States' First Wom...
September 19, 2025

Priel on The Political Theories of the Legal Realists

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Dan Priel, City University of Hong Kong School of Law; York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published The Political Theories of the...

LCH 2026 Conference Scheduled for June 17-18, 2026 at DePaul College of Law

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The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will hold its 2026 conference June 17-18, 2026 at the DePaul University Co...
September 18, 2025

Rhodes on A Silence after Slaughter-House: Nineteenth-Century State Constitutional Substantive Rights, Liberties, and Privileges

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Charles W. (Rocky) Rhodes, University of Missouri (Columbia) Law School, has published A Silence after Slaughter-House: Nineteenth-Century S...
September 17, 2025

Vasconcelos Vilaça on Law as a Semiotic Time Machine

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Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Law School, has published "Law as a Semiotic Time Machin...

Davies on Sherlock Holmes: Real or Imagined? Living or Dying?

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Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag, has published Sherlock Holmes: Real or Imagined? Living or Dying? at 202...
September 16, 2025

Balkin and Levinson on Casebooks, Canons, and Constitutional Memory

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Jack M. Balkin, Yale University Law School, and Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School, are publishing Casebooks, Canons, and Cons...
September 12, 2025

Pasker on "Which History has Condescended to Notice": Black Testimony in Antebellum Courts

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Robert B. Pasker, CUNY Department of History, has published "Which History has Condescended to Notice": Black Testimony in Antebel...
September 10, 2025

Bond on Representations of Law and Race Revisited: An Updated Survey of Recent American Film

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Cynthia D. Bond, UIC School of Law, has published Representations of Law and Race Revisited: An Updated Survey of Recent American Film at 3...
September 8, 2025

Call For Expressions of Interest: International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication: From Text to Semiotics; Section 3: Justice in the Media Age-- Law, Communication, and Public Perception

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Call For Expressions of Interest International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication (IHLLC): From Text to Semiotics Editor-in-Chief...
September 2, 2025

Call for Applications: National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2026-2027

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National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2026-27  The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or semeste...
September 1, 2025

Mitchell on The Narrative Fragmentation of International Legal History

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Ryan Mitchell, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, has published The Narrative Fragmentation of International Legal History ...
August 28, 2025

Sharma and Pareek on Colonial Constructs and Legal Myths: The Erasure of Hindi Jurisprudence and Dicta on Criminal Law Under the Shadow of English Legal Superiority

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Prakash Sharma, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, and Animesh Pareek, IIT Kharagpur, have published Colonial Constructs and ...
August 25, 2025

Johnson on Frederick Douglass: D.C. Recorder of Deeds

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Randall K. Johnson, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, is publishing Frederick Douglass: D.C. Recorder of Deeds in volume ...
August 20, 2025

Seong-Hak Kim on Legal Pluralism That Wasn't: State and the Plurality of Law in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht", has published Legal Pluralism That Wasn't: State a...
August 19, 2025

Call For Applications, Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities, Tilburg Law School

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From Michel Bot,  Associate Professor of Law and Humanities Department of Public Law and Governance, Tilburg Law School Program Director, Ma...
August 17, 2025

Call for Applications: Law/Justice/Ethics Positions, Haverford College

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  Call For Applications: Interdisciplinary Positions at Haverford College Two tenure-track interdisciplinary law/justice/ethics jo...
August 15, 2025

Serafin on The Corruption of Blood as Metaphor

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Nicholas Serafin, Santa Clara University School of Law, has published The Corruption of Blood as Metaphor . Here is the abstract. Article...
August 11, 2025

Molina Bustos on Cultural Analysis of the Legend of the Alligator Man

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Francisco Fabiany Molina Bustos, EDUKIVOTOS, has published Cultural Analysis of the Legend of the Alligator Man. Here is the abstract. Th...
August 7, 2025

Molina Bustos on Cultural Analysis of the Legend of the Whistler

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Francisco Fabiany Molina Bustos, EDUKIVOTOS, has published Cultural Analysis of the Legend of the Whistler . Here is the abstract. This aca...
August 6, 2025

Rocheton: Among the Voices of the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges' Political and Legal Pamphlets

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Julie Rocheton, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, has published Among the Voices of the French Revolution: Olympe de ...
August 5, 2025

Concepcion on The First American Law Libraries

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Cattleya M. Concepcion, Georgetown University Law Library, has published The First American Law Libraries at The Green Bag Almanac and Read...

Upcoming Conference: Melville's Legacy For Law and the Humanities, University of Cincinnati Law School, October 24-25, 2025

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Upcoming Conference at the University of Cincinnati Law School, October 24-25, 2025 Melville's Legacy for Law and the Humanities Co-spon...
August 1, 2025

Paradise on Agape and Law in Byzantium

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Brandon L. Paradise, Rutgers Law School, Newardk, has published Agape and Law in Byzantium . Here is the abstract. This study focuses on a...
July 30, 2025

Muñoz on The American Revolutions of 1776

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, University of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science, has published The American Revolutions of 1776 . Here is t...
July 28, 2025

Bilder on Hater of Kings: Catharine Macaulay's Constitutional Regicide and the Declaration of Independence

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Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School, has published Hater of Kings: Catharine Macaulay’s Constitutional Regicide and the Declaration...
July 27, 2025

McKoski on David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge

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Ray McKoski, University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Law, has published David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge (University of ...
July 26, 2025

Muñoz on History and Tradition in the Trump Justices' Church-State Jurisprudence

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, University of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science, has published History and Tradition in the Trump Justices’...
July 25, 2025

Hrdy and Brean on Testing the Gernsback Hypothesis: Science Fiction's Influence on Patents and Innovation

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Camilla Alexandra Hrdy, Rutgers Law School; Yale University Information Society Project, and Daniel Harris Brean, Senior In-House Intellectu...

Murray on Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice

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Brian Murray, Seton Hall Law School, is publishing Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice in volume 101 of the Notre Dame ...
July 21, 2025

Werner on The Physics of Law

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Swen Werner, My Digital Truth, has published The Physics Of Law . Here is the abstract. This paper interrogates the structural precondition...
July 19, 2025

Dojcinovic on War Crimes: Definition, History, Practice

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Predrag Dojcinovic, University of Connecticut, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute; International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugos...
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