John Leubsdorf, Rutgers, the State University of New York, Rutgers Law School, has published Shakespeare’s Staged Trials. Here is the abstract. The trials in Shakespeare’s plays are strange. There are no lawyers or professional...
Proposed Special Issue for Law and Literature (Cardozo Law School): Humor and the Law Humor in its various forms, from comedy and satire to stand-up and cartoons, is regularly at the centre of juridical...
Shulamit Almog, Professor of Law at Haifa University and Co-Director of the Law, Gender and Policy Center, has published From the Odyssey Onwards: Law’s Long and Winding Road at 32 Law & Literature 47...
Maria Ioannou has published “[O]ur legal fictions”: Law Reform, Jurisprudential Concerns and Benign Aspects of the Law in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House at 37 Dickens Quarterly 131 (June 2020). Here is a link to...
Gabriel Mendlow, University of Michigan Law School; University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy, is publishing Thoughts, Crimes, and Thought Crimes in volume 118 of the Michigan Law Review (2020). Here is the abstract. Thought...
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Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law, has published Anishinaabe Law and The Round House at 10 Albany Government Law Review 88 (2017). Here is the abstract. This paper addresses the Indian country...
Deadline Approaching: Proposals Due By May 31, 2020 Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper eds. To talk about the crime...
ICYMI: Terry White, Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller In American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature (Praeger, 2003) (Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture; 9). Here is a description of the contents of the book....
Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse mysteries, isn’t the only novelist who has set a murder in Oxford. Tara Heuze rounds up another ten for us in 10 Criminal Underrated Novelists, an essay...
David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, has published Charles Macklin and Arthur Murphy: theatre, law and an eighteenth-century London Irish diaspora in volume 13 of the Law and Humanities Journal (2019). Here is the abstract....
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