A piece by my former student, Danielle Maddox Kinchen: Only the Best and the Brightest: No Room for the Average Female Lawyer in the 21st-Century Cinematic Legal Profession, 21 Tex. Rev. Ent. & Sports...
The UCLA School of Law is accepting applications for a FRONTLINE Fellow for the Documentary Film Legal Clinic. The Fellow will support the Clinic’s activities and supervise the work of the student-clinicians. This is...
New from director Nancy Buirski: A Crime on the Bayou (Augusta Films). A Crime on the Bayou presents the story of Gary Duncan, a young African American man in Louisiana convicted of assault and...
Just Mercy, the 2019 Warner Brothers film centering on attorney Bryan Stevenson’s fight to free Walter McMillian from death row, is streaming free on several platforms this month. You can watch it on Amazon,...
Are you looking for more legal movies, particularly smaller films or those set in non U.S. jurisdictions? Ted Tjaden maintains a regularly updated website on law-related movies here. It includes films by substantive area and...
Giacomo Calorio, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Turin, and Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, have published Inside a frame, behind a glass. A preliminary inquiry on law...
If you’re in self-quarantine because of COVID19, or even if you’re not, you might be itching for some contagion movies to watch while you wait for those fourteen days to pass. What to watch?...
Batman (Character) / Joker (Character) / Law and Film
by · Published January 28, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
You Get What You Deserve: Joker and Criminal Justice Barbara Hughes-Moore Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar...
Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published References to Movies in Judicial Opinions and Written Advocacy, Part II, at 75 Journal of the Missouri Bar 297 (Nov-Dec. 2019). Here is the abstract....
Holidays / Law and Film / Miracle on 34th Street (Film)
by · Published December 20, 2019 · Last modified November 16, 2020
Santa Claus and law in the movies might seem to be a strange pairing. Yet several films, including The Santa Clause (a homeowner accidentally knocks off the jolly old elf and then must fill in for...
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