Look at this Call For Proposals! How interesting! 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...
ICYMI: Mark Twain wrote this imaginary prosecution of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper for “literary offenses.” You can find it published at (among other places) 24 Litigation 72 (Winter 1998) as well as here...
Via @rogueclassicist, here’s the Moot Trial of Lysistrata, presented by Classics for All. Mary Howarth Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, presides. Lysistrata (text) Aristophanes
If your reading tastes run to the odd, the eccentric, the Gothic, the off-beat (in literature or history), the pop culture-ish, or the feline, check out Undine’s blog Strange Company. Among her recent psots,...
The holiday season is upon us, and with it, lists of the “best books” in various categories. Of course, these lists help us purchase gifts for friendsandrelations who love to read (and they help...
Newly published: Katherine Isobel Baxter, Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature, and the Humanities). Examines representations of the law in colonial and...
ICYMI: Mark Fortier, University of Guelph, has published Literature and Law (Routledge, 2019). The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction...
ICYMI: John A. Alford and Dennis P. Seniff, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography of Scholarship (Routledge, 2019). Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a...
New from Routledge; Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian W. Nail and Jeffrey A. Ellsworth eds., Routledge, 2019). This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice...
Alexandra Kemmerer, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences; Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International law, and Doren Wohlleben, University of Marberg, have published Im Kalten Krieg der Geschlechter. Mythos...
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