Paul Laurence Dunbar: Born OTD 1872
Paul Laurence Dunbar, the gifted poet, was born on this day in 1872 to formerly enslaved parents in Dayton, OH. He died on February 9, 1906. He wrote poetry, novels, short stories, and the...
Law and Literature
It’s Dracula Day!
It’s Dracula Day (May 26!) In honor of the day, here’s a short bibliography of secondary sources discussing legal themes and issues related to Bram Stoker’s best known work, Dracula (1897). Carpi, Daniela, A...
Newly Published: The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature (Robert Spoo and Simon Stern, eds., 2025)
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...
Happy Birthday, E. T. A Hoffmann!
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...
Solove and Hartzog on Kafka in the Age of AI and the Futility of Privacy as Control @DanielSolove @hartzog @BU_Law
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...
Murphree on Moreau, Dumas, and the Authority to Interpret the French Civil Code
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
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...
Lincoln on A Homeric Analysis of the US Constitution @cealiv @univgroningen
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...
Grossman on Thoroughly Modern Motherhood @SMULawSchool @SMULawReview
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...
Dojcinovic on The Forensification of Propaganda in Epic Poetry and Serb Leadership Cases at the ICTY @UConn
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....