Law and Culture / Law and Society / Law and Society Association / LSA Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop / Workshops
The Law and Society Association announces the call for applications for the Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop, May 26-27, 2020, in Denver, Colorado (USA). The workshop immediately precedes the LSA Annual Meeting. Apply here.
From Professors Maria Drakopoulou and Connal Parsley of the University of Kent Law School, news of the launch of the AHRC-sponsored Law and the Human Network. Below is their announcement. We are pleased to...
Paul Salmon, a professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, discusses the image of robots at work in the Star Wars universe and the extent to which those images reflect the actual uses...
For Vulture, Rebecca Lavoie offers a list of true-crime podcasts that have had a outsized influence on the medium. Here is her roll call. Serial. In the Dark. Criminal. My Favorite Murder. Up and...
J. Oliver Conroy interviews journalist Rachel Monroe (Savage Appetites) about the popularity of true crime writing among women readers. Says Ms. Monroe in part, One common, overarching explanation is that true crime stories allow...
Special Issue Volume 24 (2020) “The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound” Guest Editors: Mehera San Roque (University of New South Wales Law) Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Canada) James Parker...
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...
Law and Art / Law and Culture / Law and History / Law and Society / Law and Visual Culture / Legal History
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.
More