Law & Humanities Blog

Alli Orr Larsen and Thomas McSweeney, both of William & Mary Law School, are publishing Medieval Treatises and the Judicial Search for a...

  The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is currently accepting submissions for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Awar...

Michael L. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Law, has published Holistic Constitutional Interpretation . Here is the abstract. This...

Jacob D. Charles, Pepperdine University School of Law, and Jonah B. Gelbach, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, have publish...

Megan T. Stevenson, University of Virginia School of Law, and Robynn Cox, UC Riverside, University of Southern California, Schaeffer Center ...

Jed H. Shugerman, Boston University School of Law, and Zach S. Handelsman, McGill University, Department of Political Science, have publishe...

Nina Varsava, University of Wisconsin Law School, and Bill Watson, University of Illinois College of Law, have published Originalism's G...

Kent McNeil, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published T he Intertemporal Law Doctrine’s Application to the Acquisition of Colonies in the Amer...

Nicholas Stump, West Virginia College of Law, has published Historical Beginnings: Appalachian Coal and the Coming of Industrial Capitalism ...

Daniel B. Yeager, California Western School of Law, has published Discursive Footnotes . Here is the abstract. This essay offers a comprehe...

From Peter Schneck, Director, OSI (Osnabrueck Summer Institute) Announcing the 2026 International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultura...

Alessandro Volpi, Max Planck Institute fr the Study of Crime, Security and Law, has published Legal and Political Constitutionalism from Sch...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag; has published One Complicated Hou in Regulation and Imagination: Legal, ...

Dan E. Stigall, George Washington University Law School; U. S. Department of Justice, has published The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French L...

 Forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press: Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University, Frederick Douglass's Newspapers (2026).  Here...

Newly published: Paul Mitchell, University College London, Faculty of Laws, has published Gaskell and the Law (Hart Publishing, 2025). ...

Matthew W. Perry and Kimberley Brownlee, both of the University of British Columbia Department of Philosophy, have published The Socially Fr...

Imelda Maher, University College Dublin School of Law, has published Teaching Hope: An Interdisciplinary Challenge as LSE Legal Studies Wor...

Tola Amodu, University of East Anglia, Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics Law School, Jill Marshall, Royal Holloway University of Lond...

Elen Stokes, University of Bristol, has published Hope as an Object of Legal Scholarship as LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 31/2025. He...

ICYMI: Cynthia D. Bond, UIC School of Law, has published Representations of Law and Race Revisited: An Updated Survey of Recent American Fi...

Tanzil Chowdhury, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, is publishing Toward a Historical Materialist Account of British Constitut...

From Laura Little, Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law: The International Society for Humor Studies is soliciting abstracts ...

Alexander Walker, Columbia University Law School, has published Vagueness' Three Faces as a Columbia Public Law Research Paper. Here is...

Mary Anne Franks, George Washington University Law School, is publishing Little Fascists Everywhere: The National Socialist Playbook of Trum...

Ignacio Adrian Lerer has published Law as Language: From Scandinavian Realism to Evolutionary Jurisprudence . Here is the abstract. This p...

Francisco Fabiany Molina Bustos and Jenny Alejandra Pérez Páez, both of the Social Sciences Observatory and Human Resources in  Ibagué/  Edu...

Xuantong Cai, Abbey Park High School, has published The Crime of a Show Girl: An analysis of the common law underpinnings behind the Taylor ...

 From Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and PResident,  ASLCH: This is a reminder that...

 Reminder from Yvonne Lindgren, Professor, UMKC School of Law: Dear all, This is a reminder about and deadlines related to the upc...

ICYMI: Elizabeth Berenguer, Lucy Jewel, and Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb have published Critical and Comparative Rhetoric Unmasking Privilege and ...

  Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award 2025  A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship ...

Steven Arrigg Koh, Boston University School of Law, is publishing Communicative Legitimacy: The Supreme Court's Hidden Cultural Binaries...

Emerson Wright, Stetson University College of Law, has published Gender Affirming Rhetoric . Here is the abstract. During the runup to the...

Andrei Marmor, Cornell University Law School, has published The Ontology of Legal Facts as Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-35. ...

Joe Hemleben, Appellate Advocate, Mississippi Office of State Public Defender; Independent Research & Author, has published Law as Mirro...

Ryan Snyder, University of Missouri School of Law, has published Historical Practice at the Founding as University of Missouri School of La...

Kathryn Boling, Seattle University School of Law, is publishing What Is 'The Rule'? Quotation Marks And The Role Of Courts And Lawye...

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

Beau J. Baumann, Yale Law School, and Jed H. Shugerman, Boston University School of Law, have published Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradit...

Medieval Murder Maps  is a digital resource that allows researchers and others interested in the period to check out the history of violence...

Matthew J. Baker, University of Mississippi School of Law, has published Medieval Roots, Modern Insights: The Origins Of Common Law Contract...