The Center For the Study of the Public Domain @DukeCSPD
Today we’d like to highlight the Duke Law School site, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. There’s a lot to look at and enjoy here. The “About Us” page at the...
Law and Popular Culture
Simpson-Wood on The Precarious Position of the Fourth Estate in Trumptopia: The Role of Popular Culture and the Law in Protecting Media Freedom @Barry_Law
Taylor Simpson-Wood, Barry University School of Law, is publishing The Precarious Position of the Fourth Estate in Trumptopia: The Role of Popular Culture and the Law in Protecting Media Freedom in volume 49 of...
The Broadside Ballad as Newspaper @Ipkat @NeilWilkof
An interesting post from Neil Wilkof at the IPKat on The broadside ballad as newspaper: When the melody of “Greensleeves” met the latest public hanging in the City of London. Mr. Wilkof writes in part:...
Forthcoming from Cornell University Press: Hamilton and the Law @DrexelUniv @HamiltonMusical @CornellPress @rtushnet
Forthcoming: Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues Through the Hit Musical (Lisa A. Tucker, ed., Cornell University Press, 2020). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the...
Call For Proposals: May 31, 2020: Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives @DetectH2020
Deadline Approaching: Proposals Due By May 31, 2020 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 the crime...
Asimow on American Vigilantism: Popular Justice and Popular Culture @santaclaralaw
Michael Asimow, Santa Clara Law School, is publishing American Vigilantism — Popular Justice and Popular Culture in Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture: A Global Perspective. Here is the abstract. This essay on American vigilantism...
CFP: The Female Detective on TV: MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @AnnaMisiakFal
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture (maifeminism.com) invites academic authors with expertise in television studies and other related disciplines to contribute to our upcoming special issue on female detectives on TV. For decades now, the...
Lawyering Oops In Popular Culture
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...