Newly published: James Boyd White, Keep Law Alive (Carolina Academic Press, 2019). How should we respond to the fact that law and democracy are under real threat in our world? In Keep Law...
Opening day is still a few weeks away, but we can certainly take a look at the intersection of America’s game, the law, and pop culture with an examination of some of these writings....
Review of “The Negligents” by Kate Smith The Negligents is a thought-provoking tale about the intricacies of life stories that are woven through the fabric of time. In this debut novel from Kate Smith,...
Kyle Bailey The World of Batman: Justice, Natural Law, and the Power of Stories INTRODUCTION The fictional character of Batman was created in 1939 by Bob Kaine and Bill Finger and first...
Introduction Bodyguard is a six-part BBC television series written by Jed Mercurio. Broadcast in 2018, the show marries tensely plotted and compellingly shot action sequences with bureaucratic turf wars and political intrigue taking...
The Center for Humanities and Information at The Pennsylvania State University has issued a call for applications for its visiting fellows program for the Fall 2019/20 academic year. Below is the call. The...
From the American Society of International Law’s Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group (CHAIG) and Fordham University School of Law’s Urban Center, in collaboration with the Quebec Society of International Law (SQDI), a...
Law’s Pop, Justice’s Fizzle Review of Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture (Ashley Pearson, et al., Routledge 2018) Law & Culture, as a discipline, offers a challenge to legal theory. With all...
The Wake Forest Law Review is sponsoring a symposium on Cognitive Emotion and the Law, Friday, February 22, 2019. It will include many eminent speakers and cover a number of interesting topics. Here’s a...
Stuart Eizenstat on President Carter’s Morality: Episodes From an Administration Leslie C. Griffin* Stuart Eizenstat’s 999-page book, President Carter: The White House Years, promises to “redeem his presidency from the lingering memories.”[1] The book...
Law, Literature, and Identity Marc L. Roark* My first exposure to Law and Literature was as a grad student at Duke where Jamie Boyle taught the course. It was, for lack of a...
The Centre for Law, Arts, and the Humanities is presenting a day-long seminar on Vertigo, December 12, 2018. Here’s a description of the event. The ANU contemporary critical theory group is hosting a one-day...
Louisianans! Do you wonder why it seems as though at every election you find you must make decisions about some constitutional amendment or other? Professor John Devlin of the Louisiana State University Law Center...
Framing the Law Review of Thomas Giddens, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics (Routledge 2018) Thomas Giddens is lecturer in law, University of Dundee, and the founder of Graphic Justice Research Alliance. So I...
Did you know that Jamie, the unassuming insurance representative from the Progressive commercials, is an attorney? We certainly didn’t, and neither did his co-workers! They find out as he’s showing them his vacation photos....
Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education. Here is the abstract. Discussing federal statutes, Justice Scalia tells us...
Update: please see the below Call for Papers for updates on the Murder and True Crime in the Media conference, including further details of our keynote presenters, and our conference website. This conference is now free to attend...
Do you like your politics with music? Try out Charles Dupee Blake’s Impeachment Polka, in a delightful performance by Michael Adcock of the Washington Conservatory. He has also recorded an album of ragtime for...
A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship in law, literature, and language, Penelope J. Pether (1957-2013) was Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and former Professor of Law and Director of Legal...
Barrister Olly Jarvis maintains The Crime Hub, an interesting intersection of crime fiction, true crime, and crime fiction. Mr. Jarvis is a thriller writer himself, author of Unconvicted (2018), Death by Dangerous (2015), and...
Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published References to Movies in Judicial Opinions and Written Advocacy, Part II, at 75 Journal of the Missouri Bar 297 (Nov-Dec. 2019). Here is the abstract....
ICYMI: Mark Twain wrote this imaginary prosecution of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper for “literary offenses.” You can find it published at (among other places) 24 Litigation 72 (Winter 1998) as well as here...
Via @rogueclassicist, here’s the Moot Trial of Lysistrata, presented by Classics for All. Mary Howarth Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, presides. Lysistrata (text) Aristophanes
Santa Claus and law in the movies might seem to be a strange pairing. Yet several films, including The Santa Clause (a homeowner accidentally knocks off the jolly old elf and then must fill in for...
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