John Lande, University of Missouri School of Law, has published The Role of Law in Legal Disputes. Here is the abstract. This article uses Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous definition of the law as “prophecies...
Warren Swain, University of Auckland Faculty of Law, has published The Laws of ‘An Old and Settled Society’? the Law of Contract in New South Wales in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Here is the abstract....
Seth Barrett Tillman, National University of Ireland, has published What Oath (if Any) Did Jacob Henry Take in 1809?: Deconstructing the Historical Myths at 61 American Journal of Legal History 349 (2021). Here is...
Emad H. Atiq, Cornell University Law School; Cornell University Sage School of Philosophy, is publishing Legal Positivism and the Moral Origins of Legal Systems in the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence. Here is...
Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Fordham Law School, is publishing Removal of Context: Blackstone, Limited Monarchy, and the Limits of Unitary Originalism in volume 22 of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (2022). Here...
The Canadian Network of Law & Humanities has launched. It brings together scholars “interested in the cultural, imaginative, and embodied aspects of law.” The CNLH tweets at @LawHumanitiesCA.
Call For Papers, Law and Literature in Europe, Muenster, October 17-19, 2022 The process of Europeanisation that has happened in political, social, cultural and especially legal form over the last decades, may duly be...
Julien Etxabe, Allard School of Law, UBC, is publishing The Dialogical Language of Law in volume 59 of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Here is the abstract. We live in a dialogical world. The...
ABA web producer Lee Rawles discusses the real life inspiration for the iconic film 12 Angry Men with Phil Rosenzweig, author of Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men (Empire State Editions,...
David Kenny, Trinity College Dublin School of Law, has published ‘Words, Words, Just Words’: Law, Language, and Magic in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy. Here is the abstract. In this paper, presented at a...
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