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...
Sam Williams, University of Idaho College of Law, is publishing What We Grow Beyond: How The Last Jedi, Go Set a Watchman, and the Notorious R.B.G. Can Help Attorneys Be the Heroes They Want...
Professor Amardeep Singh developed this open-access reader and guide to the poetry of African-American women with the assistance of one of his students, Sarah Thompson. Here’s the link to the work. Sections include The...
Check out this discussion of Star Wars politics and security with David Priess and guest Chris Kempshall.
According to Variety, Halle Berry, Glenn Close, and Kim Kardashian will all star in the Hulu legal drama All’s Fair, about an all-woman law firm. Close previously starred in the well-received tv show Damages. Berry is...
The Legal Humanities Association (LHA) is a UK-based learned society that is ready to launch soon. According to its website, The Legal Humanities Association (LHA) is a new learned society. It aims to foster...
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