Forthcoming from Carolina Academic Press in July 2025: Jennifer Sheppard Beardsley, Building Character: A Legal Storytelling Primer on Character and Character Development.
From the Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference: The deadline to submit applications for the 2025 LCH Annual Conference and Graduate Student Workshop has been extended to February 5, 2025. Information on how to...
Emily Kidd White, Osgoode Hall Law School; New York University School of Law, has published An International Law of the Emotions as Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 5051600. Here is the abstract. Talk...
Just published: the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by Robert Spoo, University of Tulsa, and Simon Stern, University of Toronto. Here, from the publisher’s website, is a description of the book’s...
Ryan H. Nelson, South Texas College of Law, Houston, has published San[d]ford at 27 Green Bag 3d 323 (2024). Here is the abstract. Prevailing sentiment within the legal academy is that the U.S. Supreme...
Out now from Routledge: The Routledge History of Crime in America, edited by James Campbell and Vivien Miller. Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. Covering a broad...
Kellen Funk, Columbia University Law School, has published Sect and Superstition: The Protestant Framework of American Codification in the American Journal of Legal History (2024). Here is the abstract. Elite lawyers who debated codification...
Michael L. Smith, St. Mary’s University School of Law, is publishing History as Precedent: Common Law Reasoning in Historical Investigation in volume 27 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2025). Here is...
Jorge L. Contreras, University of Utah College of Law, has published True Law as Genre: Narrative Nonfiction and the Law. Here is the abstract. The Genome Defense, which offers a book-length narrative nonfiction account...
Michael L. Smith, St. Mary’s University School of Law, is publishing Do Not Read in volume 70 of the South Dakota Law Review (2025). Here is the abstract. Law professors enjoy marking up drafts...
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