A workshop on the theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions will be held on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 July, 2023 in central London. Organisers: Victoria Barnes and Amanda Perry-Kessaris Funded by: Socio-Legal Studies Association and Kent Law School Exhibitions range widely in form,...
Etienne C. Toussaint, University of South Carolina School of Law, is publishing Tragedies of the Cultural Commons in volume 110 of the California Law Review. Here is the abstract. In the United States, Black...
Shane Chalmers, Adelaide Law School, has published Metaphoric Sovereignty and the Australian Settler Colonial State at 26 Law/Text/Culture 36 (2022). Here is the abstract. There is a pronounced anxiety within Australian jurisprudence at the...
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Love and Dead Hand Control at the Border Shubha Ghosh Lone Star (1995) is one of my favorite movies, and I was lucky to have the chance to talk about it briefly with...
Livia Gershon discusses the origins of the zombie movie here for JSTOR Daily. She notes: George Romero created the modern zombie as metaphor for contagious disease and consumerism. But, as film scholar Jennifer Fay writes, the first feature-length zombie movie emerged...
Ira P. Robbins, American University College of Law, is publishing Explaining Florida Man in the Florida State University Law Review. Here is the abstract. “Florida Man” is a popular cultural phenomenon in which journalists report on...
Gregory Bigler is publishing Foundations of Tribal Society: Art, Dreams, and the Last Old Woman in volume 7 of the Indigenous People’s Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance (2022). Here is the abstract. The...
Forthcoming: The Criminal Law’s Person (Claes Lernestedt and Matt Matravers, eds., Hart/Bloomsbury, 2022). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. The state’s use of the threat, and imposition, of...
Robert Brauneis, George Washington University Law School, is publishing Understanding Copyright’s First Encounter With the Fine Arts: A Look at the Legislative History of the Copyright Act of 1870 in volume 71 of the...
ICYMI: Joshua David Michael Shaw, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published The Spatio-Legal Production of Bodies Through the Legal Fiction of Death, at 32 Law and Critique 69-90 (2021). Here is the abstract....
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