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:...
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, is publishing Escalus’ Dream: Re-Imagining Shakespeare’s States in Law and Poetics (Palgrave, 2020). Here is the abstract. Law and theater, like law and literature, and indeed like...
Linda C. McClain, Boston University School of Law, is publishing A “Woman’s Best Right” – To a Husband or the Ballot?: Political and Household Governance in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels in volume 100 of...
New from Cornell University Press: Arne Hoecker, The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives From Goethe to Kafka (Cornell University Press, 2020) (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought). In The Case of...
Stephanie Elsky, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, has published Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (Oxford University Press, 2020). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents....
David Kenny, Trinity College Dublin School of Law, has published The Human Pared Away: Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell as an Archetype of Legal Pragmatism, forthcoming in Law and Literature. Here is the abstract. Hilary...
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...
Call For Papers / Law and Humor / Law and Literature
by · Published June 30, 2020 · Last modified September 23, 2020
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...
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