Call For Papers, Law and Literature in Europe, Muenster, October 17-19, 2022 The process of Europeanisation that has happened in political, social, cultural and especially legal form over the last decades, may duly be...
David Kenny, Trinity College Dublin School of Law, has published ‘Words, Words, Just Words’: Law, Language, and Magic in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy. Here is the abstract. In this paper, presented at a...
Martha Grace Duncan, Emory University School of Law, has published Cattle Upon a Thousand Hills at 49 Appalachian Review 38 (Winter 2021). Here is the abstract. Barn Burning Wood and hay kin burn. —William...
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School, has published “Get Drunk”!: Baudelaire’s Defiant Liberalism. Here is the abstract. We live in a period in which liberalism is under considerable pressure.Can poems be...
Robert F, Barsky, Clamouring For Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing From Persecution (Bloomsbury, 2021). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. In this...
Newly published: The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws (Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis, eds., Routledge, 2021). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. Returning to the map of the...
The ACD Society has launched! The Society is devoted to studying and enjoying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works. The Society awards prizes for the best scholarly writing about Doyle, so if you have nominations, please...
ICYMI: Katharine Villalobos has published The Crucible: Old Notions of Hysteria in Modern America at 5 Law Journal for Social Justice 202 (2015).
Two interesting books, newly published: Penelope Geng, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England (University of Toronto Press) and Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (OUP).
Writer Harper Lee (died 2016) was born on this day in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. Below: a very selective bibliography of works on law in her most famous fictional work, To Kill a Mockingbird....
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