Erin L. Sheley, California Western School of Law, and Zvi S. Rosen, Southern Illinois University School of Law, are publishing The Purloined Debtor: Edgar Allan Poe’s Bankruptcy in Law and Letters in the Yale...
Rebecca Lemon reviews Stephanie Elsky’s Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (Oxford University Press, 2020) here for the New Rambler. Lemon says in part, Custom, Elsky writes, “does not...
Newly published: Regulation & Imagination: Legal & Literary Perspectives on Fox-Hunting, featuring Arthur Conan Doyle’s The King of the Foxes (Ross E. Davies, ed., The Green Bag, 2022).
Jack Michael Beermann, Boston University School of Law, has published The 1876 Election: A Fictionalized Account. Here is the abstract. After the 1985 death of Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith extinguished the Lincoln line a...
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, INSEAD, has published In Praise of Dictators: A Swiftian Perspective as INSEAD Working Paper No. 2022/22/EFE, 2022. Here is the abstract. This article takes a ‘Swiftian perspective’ to...
ICYMI: Gary Watt, University of Warwick, has published The Law of Dress in “Lord of the Flies,” at 8 Law and Humanities 171 (2015).
Marco Wan reviews Robert Spoo, Modernism and the Law (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), for The New Rambler (link here). More about the book here.
ICYMI: Robert Spoo, University of Tulsa College of Law, has published Modernism and the Law (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. Exploring critical legal issues...
Call For Papers, Law and Literature in Europe, Muenster, October 17-19, 2022 The process of Europeanisation that has happened in political, social, cultural and especially legal form over the last decades, may duly be...
David Kenny, Trinity College Dublin School of Law, has published ‘Words, Words, Just Words’: Law, Language, and Magic in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy. Here is the abstract. In this paper, presented at a...
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