Newly published: A Cultural History of Law (Gary Watt, ed., Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) (The Cultural Histories Series). Six volumes. How have legal ideas and institutions affected Western culture? And how has the law itself been...
Brittany Vincent reviews Sega and Ryu ga Gotoku Studio’s crime drama spinoff game Judgment for The Hollywood Reporter. She says in part, There are multiple meaty layers to Judgment that continue to reveal more and more...
Lucy A. Jewel , University of Tennessee College of Law, and Mary Campbell are publishing Death in the Shadows in Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2019). Here is the abstract. This paper is...
This article from Lapham’s Quarterly features some symbols of law and justice from around the world, including Shamash, the Babylonian sun god, and Durga, the Hindu warrior goddess.
Writer Zac O’Yeah (Tropical Detective, A Hero For Hire) discusses Indian cultural elements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories for The Hindu. He notes that while a major pleasure of the stories is...
Newly published: James Boyd White, Keep Law Alive (Carolina Academic Press, 2019). How should we respond to the fact that law and democracy are under real threat in our world? In Keep Law...
The University of Perugia invites streams and papers for the 2019 Critical Legal Conference. The event will take place between September 12 and 14, 2019. The deadline for submission of abstracts is July 15th....
Opening day is still a few weeks away, but we can certainly take a look at the intersection of America’s game, the law, and pop culture with an examination of some of these writings....
New publication (due out February 28, 2019): Jose Calvo Gonzalez, Criminologia Visual (Tirant Brasil, 2019) (Series Ciencias Criminals 3) More here at Iurisdictio-Lex Malacitana.
From the American Society of International Law’s Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group (CHAIG) and Fordham University School of Law’s Urban Center, in collaboration with the Quebec Society of International Law (SQDI), a...