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...
The excellent site The Conversation offers Jordan Kistler’s essay on the BBC and Netflix’s update on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which will make its debut in early 2020. Writes Professor Kistler, Gothic fiction has always had...
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, is publishing Character is a Sacred Bond in volume 24 of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (August 2019). Here is the abstract. Law clings to rules to stabilize...
From the New York Review of Books, an essay by Michael Chabon on the litigation surrounding the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The essay in slightly altered form also appears in the forthcoming collection Fight...
Sharon Bala has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her first Novel The Boat People (Random House/Anchor, 2018). Before her death, Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set...
From the Writing Excuses podcast, a discussion of what writers get wrong when they write about legal procedures. Lou Perry, an attorney and writer, is the guest. As a followup, Molly Ringle published this...