Born January 24, 1776, Ernest Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (later Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), in Koenigsberg, Prussia, to Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann, a lawyer, and Lovisa Doerffer. Hoffmann became a lawyer as well, in government service...
What can you do with a law degree? Make people laugh intentionally as Liz Glazer does. She went from tenured law professor (at Hofstra) to stand up comedian. Well, maybe not such a leap...
Happy birthday to Edgar Allan Poe, born OTD in 1809 in Boston, MA. Here’s a short bibliography of secondary works on law and literature in Poe. Cleman, John, Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe...
Mary Ziegler, University of California, Davis, School of Law, is publishing The History of Neutrality: Dobbs and the Social Movement Politics of History and Tradition in the Yale Law Journal Forum. Here is the...
ICYMI: Russell Sandberg, A Historical Introduction To English Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. There are some stories that need to be told...
From Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, a post at the Privacy & Security Blog: Kafka in the Age of AI and the Futility of Privacy as Control. It announces Professors Solove and Hartzog’s forthcoming article...
ICYMI: Michael Asimow, A Genre Study of Prosecutors and Criminal Defense Lawyers in American Film and Television, in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, July 2017. Requires subscription.
From JSTORDAILY, a true crime syllabus. It begins: In the world of true crime media, a good rule-of-thumb is that “runners” are rescuers and “joggers” get jabbed or jailed. But how did we become...
The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence A Review by Pupul Dutta Prasad Crime stories focusing on unravelling the suspense and mystery surrounding criminal acts and their...
The Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center (BWLC) at NYU School of Law invites applications for Visiting Fellows-in-Residence for the 2024-25 academic year. Ideal candidates are legal scholars with sabbatical funding who seek to undertake research...
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