Just published: the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by Robert Spoo, University of Tulsa, and Simon Stern, University of Toronto. Here, from the publisher’s website, is a description of the book’s...
Born January 24, 1776, Ernest Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (later Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), in Koenigsberg, Prussia, to Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann, a lawyer, and Lovisa Doerffer. Hoffmann became a lawyer as well, in government service...
From Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, a post at the Privacy & Security Blog: Kafka in the Age of AI and the Futility of Privacy as Control. It announces Professors Solove and Hartzog’s forthcoming article...
Patrick Murphree is publishing Moreau, Dumas, and the Authority to Interpret the French Civil Code in the Tulane Journal of International & Comparative Law. Here is the abstract. This article explores a nineteenth-century legal...
CFP: Judicial Rhetoric: A Symposium April 5, 2024 University of Virginia School of Law In collaboration with Case Western Reserve University Judicial writing is a genre in flux. While court opinions remain both potent...
Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln, IV, University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, has published A Homeric Analysis of the US Constitution. Here is the abstract. This article offers an interpretation of the United States’ structure...
Joanna L. Grossman, Southern Methodist University School of Law, has published Thoroughly Modern Motherhood at 74 SMU Law Review 277 (2021). Here is the abstract. As explored in Lawrence Friedman’s introductory essay in this...
Predrag Dojcinovic, University of Connecticut, Human Rights Institute; International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1998-2017), is publishing The Forensification of Propaganda in Epic Poetry and Serb Leadership Cases at the ICTY in N....
Melissa J. Ganz, Marquette University Department of English, has published ‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent at 56 Eighteenth-Century Studies 53 (Fall 2022). Here is the abstract. Criminal...
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée (Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert Levine, eds., Fordham University Press, 2022). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of...
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