Alfred Binet, born (as Alfredo Binetti) on this day in 1857 (died October 18, 1911), was the co-originator of the first generally used intelligence test, the Binet-Simon test. He earned a degree in law...
From the Atlas Obscura Podcast: The Manhattan Well: How Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton United to Solve a Murder Mystery. Dylan Thuras, the host of the podcast, discusses with Lauren Willig how Aaron Burr,...
Franz Kakfa, born on this day in 1883. Kafka took a degree in law at the University of Prague in 1906 and thereafter pursued a career working in insurance, but really disliked it, because...
Christoph Koenig, Humboldt University of Berlin; BSP Business & Law School; Universitaet Innsbruck, has published Eleonore Mann, née Ehrlich (1907 – 1980) – ”A Genuine Trailblazer“. Here is the abstract. This chapter explores the...
Paul Laurence Dunbar, the gifted poet, was born on this day in 1872 to formerly enslaved parents in Dayton, OH. He died on February 9, 1906. He wrote poetry, novels, short stories, and the...
Joseph Hummel, UNT Dallas College of Law, has published Music of the Law: A Wigmorian Playlist for a Modern Era at 59 Tulsa L. Rev. 301 (2024). Here is the abstract. Within the field...
Alex Green, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, has published Towards a Wagnerian Jurisprudence: Legal Symbolism in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Here is the abstract. The libretto and score of Richard Wagner’s...
Frederick Forsyth, novelist best known for The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, who also worked for MI6 and later for Reuters as a war correspondent, has died at the age of...
Roger Cotterrell, Roger, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, is publishing The Craft of Writing in Legal Scholarship in volume 76 of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. Here is the abstract. This...
Jacob Ware, a nonresident fellow at the Illiberalism Studies Program at the George Washington Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses fascism in...