ICYMI: The Law In Shakespeare (Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, eds., 2005). Here’s a description of the book from the publisher’s website. Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare’s plays to...
ICYMI: Jonathan H. Grossman, Department of England, UCLA published The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2002. Here’s a description of the book’s contents from...
Book Review: Nicole Mansfield Wright, Defending Privilege Barbara Hughes-Moore In Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel, Nicole Mansfield Wright impressively critiques the ways in which conservative writers have...
Call for Proposals / Law and Crime Fiction / Law and Detective Fiction / Law and Fiction / Law and Humanities / Law and Literature
by · Published February 18, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
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...
James Fenimore Cooper / Law and Literature / Mark Twain / Samuel Langhorne Clemens
by · Published January 7, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
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
Blogs / Law and History / Law and Literature
by · Published December 16, 2019 · Last modified December 17, 2019
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...
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