It’s Dracula Day!
It’s Dracula Day (May 26!) In honor of the day, here’s a short bibliography of secondary sources discussing legal themes and issues related to Bram Stoker’s best known work, Dracula (1897). Carpi, Daniela, A...
Law and Film
Shubha Ghosh, Love and Dead Hand Control At the Border @ShubhaGhosh @bfastallday
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...
ICYMI: Nielsen, Patel, and Rosner on “Ahead of the Lawmen”: Law and Morality in Disney Animated Films 1960-1998
ICYMI: L. B. Nielsen, Nehal Patel, and J. Rosner published ‘Ahead of the Lawmen’: Law and Morality in Disney Animated Films 1960-1998 at 13 Law, Culture and the Humanities 104 (2017). This article examines...
Pop Culture Presidents @VanityFair
Jeffrey Engel on popular culture Presidents (from Vanity Fair, October 29, 2020).
Call For Abstracts: The Godfather and Philosophy
The Godfather and Philosophy: We’re Gonna Make ‘em an Argument they can’t Refute Call for Abstracts! Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene Abstracts are sought for a collection of essays on any philosophical...
The Origins of the Film “12 Angry Men” @ABAJournal @Lee_Rawles @IMD_Bschool @philrosenzweig
ABA web producer Lee Rawles discusses the real life inspiration for the iconic film 12 Angry Men with Phil Rosenzweig, author of Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men (Empire State Editions,...
Casey and Kenny on How Liberty Dies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars, Democratic Decay, and Weak Executives @Caseyco231 @dkennytcd
Conor Casey, University of Liverpool School of Law & Social Justice, and David Kenny, Trinity College Dublin School of LW, are publishing How Liberty Dies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars, Democratic...
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...
Treuthart on Marriage Story: A Tale of Divorce, Love…and the Law @GonzagaLaw
Mary Pat Treuthart, Gonzaga University School of Law, has published Marriage Story: A Tale of Divorce, Love…and the Law at 45 J. Legal Pro. 65 (2020). Here is the abstract. Noah Baumbach’s 2019 narrative...
Dramatization of “The Staircase” Will Star Colin Firth
From The Hollywood Reporter: HBO Max’s docudrama The Staircase, based on the true crime series of the same name, will star Colin Firth. The eight episode series has been planned since 2019 and Harrison Ford...