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October 31, 2025
Bernick on The Opinion in Yellow
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Evan D. Bernick, Northern Illinois University College of Law, has published The Opinion in Yellow as a Northern Illinois University College...
October 29, 2025
Linarelli on The Cognitive Science of Comparative Law: An Emerging Area of Study?
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John Linarelli, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published The Cognitive Science of Comparative Law: An Emerging Area of Study? ...
October 27, 2025
Trinity College, Dublin Offers M. Phil. in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Centre at Trinity College, Dublin offers a M. Phil. in Women's Gender and Sexuality Stud...
Call For Papers: The Law of the Liturgies and the Liturgies of the Law: Finding Common Ground Between Law and Religion in Ritual Speech and Performative Action
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From Judith Hahn, University of Bonn, and Emory University, Center for the Study of Law and Religion: As scholars with an interest in the i...
October 25, 2025
Ayaz on Modernity, Mimicry, and Moksha: A Postcolonial Study of R. K. Narayan's The Guide and V. S. Naipaul's A House For Mr. Biswas
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Amreen Ayaz, University of Aberdeen, has published Modernity, Mimicry, and Moksha: A Postcolonial Study of R. K. Narayan's The Guide and...
October 23, 2025
Davies on Law Books in Caricature and Composition: Edward Thompson's Marketing in the Late 1800s
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Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag, has published Law Books in Caricature and Composition: Edward Thompson’s ...
October 19, 2025
Gales, Solan, and Tobia on Nix v. Hedden: Corpus Linguistics and the Interpretation of Statutes Over Time
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Tammy Gales, Hofstra University, Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School, and Kevin Tobia, Georgetown University Law Center, have published N...
October 16, 2025
Natelson on Virgil and the Constitution
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Robert G. Natelson, Independence Institute, has published Virgil and the Constitution . Here is the abstract. All three legends on the Gre...
Call For Interest: Empowering the Environmental Consumer: Flexibility & Harmonization in Global Legal Communication
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Call for Interest – Section 14: Empowering the Environmental Consumer I’m pleased to share the call for contributions to Section 14 – E...
October 15, 2025
2026 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars
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Call for Participation Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and th...
Lukina on Beyond Political Decisionism and Legal Normativism: Schmittian-Kelsenian Synthesis
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Anna Lukina, London School of Economics & Political Science, has published Beyond Political Decisionism and Legal Normativism: Schmittia...
Call For Interest: Legal Implications and Representations in Gaming
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Call for Interest: Legal Implications and Representations in Gaming ⚖️ Contribute to the International Handbook of Legal Language...
October 13, 2025
Bradley on Extradition in the Early Republic: International Law and Constitutional Authority
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Curtis Bradley, University of Chicago Law School, has published Extradition in the Early Republic: International Law and Constitutional Auth...
2026 LCH Conference Call For Papers
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From Simon Stern, President, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, & the Humanities Dear all, We are excited to announ...
October 10, 2025
Chauvin on Understanding Free Speech Values at the Supreme Court
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Noah Chauvin, University of Oklahoma College of Law, is publishing Understanding Free Speech Values at the Supreme Court in volume 78 of Ru...
Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique
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Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School, is publishing History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique in the ...
October 9, 2025
Handler on The Administrative Law of McCarthyism
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Nicholas Handler, Texas A&M School of Law, is publishing The Administrative Law of McCarthyism in volume 78 of the Stanford Law Review ...
October 6, 2025
Pontz on Eisenhower's Crusaders: District Court Appointments as Civil Rights Policy, 1953-1961
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Ben Pontz, Harvard Law school, has published Eisenhower's Crusaders: District Court Appointments as Civil Rights Policy, 1953-1961 at 5...
Pfander on Looking for Art in the Law Review Article
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James E. Pfander, Northwestern School of Law, has published Looking for Art in the Law Review Article at the Harvard Law Blog, September 5,...
October 1, 2025
Lehrer on Jurists as Evolutionary Engineers: Artificial Selection in Legal Doctrine
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Ignacio Adrian Lehrer has published Jurists as Evolutionary Engineers: Artificial Selection in Legal Doctrine. This study analyzes how le...
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...
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