Kristi Arth, Belmont University College of Law, has published It’s Not Lying If You Call It Fiction: The Sentence in the Tennessee Bar Journal for 2017 and as the Belmont University College of Law...
From Manning Wolfe for CrimeReads (one of our favorite websites), a history of the legal thriller. Read it here.
Atlas Obscura discusses the fifty-mile-square area in Yellowstone National Park, which is essentially a legal free-for-all. Brian Kalt, a professor of law at Michigan State University, pointed out in a 2005 law review essay...
Stacey Abrams is also a novelist (under the name Selena Montgomery), but she’s publishing her newest book, While Justice Sleeps (for McNally/Jackson), under her own name. It’s a political thriller, about a Supreme Court...
Phil Lord, McGill University Faculty of Law, is publishing Law and Green Eggs and Ham in volume 6 of Anamorphosis: International Journal of Law and Literature (2020). Here is the abstract. This paper uses...
SUNDAY CHILD EXCHANGE Joshua A. Jones Jason plopped down on his sagging mattress. The thread-bare pile of sheets and blankets slipped free from the warped pallet. Jason’s neglected pit bull overwhelmed...
ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest / American Bar Association / Law and Fiction
by · Published August 15, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
From the American Bar Association Journal: Daniel Best, an associate at Gallagher Sharp, has won the 2020 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction for his short story, “The Family Lawyer.”
Call for Proposals / Law and Crime Fiction / Law and Detective Fiction / Law and Fiction / Law and Humanities / Law and Literature
by · Published February 18, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
Look at this Call For Proposals! How interesting! Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper eds. To talk about...
Barrister Olly Jarvis maintains The Crime Hub, an interesting intersection of crime fiction, true crime, and crime fiction. Mr. Jarvis is a thriller writer himself, author of Unconvicted (2018), Death by Dangerous (2015), and...
On occasion of the launch of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) hosts best-selling author Tara Moss in conversation with Dr. Barbara Pezzotti, reading from and discussing her latest novel Dead Man Switch (release...
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