Franz Kafka, Born July 3, 1883
Franz Kakfa, born on this day in 1883. Kafka took a degree in law at the University of Prague in 1906 and thereafter pursued a career working in insurance, but really disliked it, because...
Law and Fiction
Arth on It’s Not Lying If You Call It Fiction @BelmontLaw @kristiwilcox @tennbarjournal
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...
Manning Wolfe: Drama In the Court: A Brief History of the Legal Thriller @CrimeReads @ManningWolfe
From Manning Wolfe for CrimeReads (one of our favorite websites), a history of the legal thriller. Read it here.
How To Get Away With Murder? @ProfBrianKalt @MSULaw @atlasobscura
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...
A New Book From Stacey Abrams @mcnallyjackson @staceyabrams
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...
Lord on Law and Green Eggs and Ham @LawMcGill
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...
Joshua A. Jones, Sunday Child Exchange
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...
Daniel Best Wins ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction @GallagherSharp @ABAJournal
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.”
CFP: Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives @DetectH2020
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...
Check Out “The Crime Hub,” A Blog Dedicated To Crime Fact and Crime Fiction @ollyjarviso
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...