Happy Birthday, Harper Lee!
Writer Harper Lee (died 2016) was born on this day in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. Below: a very selective bibliography of works on law in her most famous fictional work, To Kill a Mockingbird....
Law and Literature
Newly Published in Paperback: Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian Nail and Jeffrey Ellsworth, eds., Routledge) @BrianWNail @routledgebooks
Newly published in paperback: Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian Nail and Jeffrey Ellsworth, eds., Routledge, 2019). This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice...
Mann on Attack By Design: Australia’s Offshore Detention System and the Literature of Atrocity @itamann
Itamar Mann, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, is publishing Attack by Design: Australia’s Offshore Detention System and the Literature of Atrocity in the European Journal of International Law (2021). Here is the abstract....
Fishman on A Random Stroll Amongst Anthony Trollope’s Lawyers
James Fishman, Pace University School of Law, has published A Random Stroll Amongst Anthony Trollope’s Lawyers. Here is the abstract. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) resides in the pantheon of nineteenth century English literature. Overcoming a...
Read and Hills on A Negotiation in Middlemarch
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:...
Sherwin on Escalus’ Dream: Re-Imagining Shakespeare’s States @RKSherwin @Palgrave @NYLawSchool
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...
McClain on Political and Household Governance in Trollope’s Palliser Novels @ProfLMcClain
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 @CornellPress
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, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (Oxford University Press, 2020) @srelsky @OUPAcademic
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....
Kenny on The Human Pared Away: Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell as an Archetype of Legal Pragmatism @dkennytcd
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...