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....
Newly published in paperback: Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian Nail and Jeffrey Ellsworth, eds., Routledge, 2019). This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice...
Itamar Mann, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, is publishing Attack by Design: Australia’s Offshore Detention System and the Literature of Atrocity in the European Journal of International Law (2021). Here is the abstract....
James Fishman, Pace University School of Law, has published A Random Stroll Amongst Anthony Trollope’s Lawyers. Here is the abstract. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) resides in the pantheon of nineteenth century English literature. Overcoming a...
Daniel Read, University of Warwick Business School, and Thomas Hills, University of Warwick have published A Negotiation in Middlemarch. Here is the abstract. We analyse a negotiation drawn from George Eliot’s great novel Middlemarch:...
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