Newly published: A Cultural History of Law (Gary Watt, ed., Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) (The Cultural Histories Series). Six volumes. How have legal ideas and institutions affected Western culture? And how has the law itself been...
What are the collective nouns (nouns of venery) for hedgehogs and foxes? Depending on the source you consult, for “foxes” you might find “earth,” “leash,” “skulk,” and “sounder.” For “hedgehogs,” you could find “array” and...
Art as Judgment Shubha Ghosh Florian Donnersmarck´s 2018 film, “Never Look Away,” takes us through three periods of German history.[1] This journey is marked by the personal tragedy and rebirth of an...
Why So Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile?: A review of Netflix’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Teri McMurtry-Chubb One year at Halloween there were two sisters, one pre-pubescent and one a teenager,...
Brittany Vincent reviews Sega and Ryu ga Gotoku Studio’s crime drama spinoff game Judgment for The Hollywood Reporter. She says in part, There are multiple meaty layers to Judgment that continue to reveal more and more...
Newly published from EnrickBEditions: Valère Ndior and Nicolas Rousseau, Le Droit dans la Saga Harry Potter (2019). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. Le serment inviolable est-il...
Via Metro News, a story about an albino fox trotting around an Islington parking lot. There’s video accompanying the story. More here.
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law invites entry-level and experienced applicants for a visiting professorship in the school’s nationally ranked Legal Communication and Analysis Program. The visitor position is a full-time...
Lucy A. Jewel , University of Tennessee College of Law, and Mary Campbell are publishing Death in the Shadows in Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2019). Here is the abstract. This paper is...
Clarendon Reconsidered: Law, Loyalty, Literature, 1640-1674 (Philip Major, ed., Routledge, 2019). Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century British politics, constitutional history and literature. Despite his influence in these and other...