Newly published: A Cultural History of Law (Gary Watt, ed., Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) (The Cultural Histories Series). Six volumes. How have legal ideas and institutions affected Western culture? And how has the law itself been...
Via Metro News, a story about an albino fox trotting around an Islington parking lot. There’s video accompanying the story. More here.
It’s Walt Whitman’s Birthday! He was born OTD in 1819. Below is a short bibliography on law and politics and the works of the distinguished poet. Askin, Denise T., Whitman and the Law: A Prophetic...
The Kate Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” Fellowship Posting Announcing a Fellowship Posting by the Kate Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” for the research period from April 1,...
It’s World Dracula Day! Here’s a short bibliography on Bram Stoker’s famous work and the law. Gary Day, The State of Dracula: Bureaucracy and the Vampire, in Re-Reading Victorian Fiction 81 (2000). Peter J....
Check out this Valentine’s Day hashtag: #IPHaiku. The USPTO, the Global IP Law Center, Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada, various U.S. state governments, non-profits, and practicing attorneys have joined in to create...
Angela Englert examines the deceit and deception that underlies the sunny and placid world of The Andy Griffith Show “Sheriff Andy Taylor Is the Prince of Lies”, an essay for The Cultural Gutter. She points out...
The new biopic of Ted Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, has dropped on Netflix. Are you interested in doing a review for Hedgehogs and Foxes? If so, please contact a member of the Board...
Via @ThomGiddens: CfP: Law, Power, and Justice in Game of Thrones: HBO’s award-winning adaptation of George Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels has become one of the most watched televisions shows...
Newly published: Daniel Wollenberg, Medieval Imagery in Today’s Politics (ArcHumanities Press, 2019). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. The election of fringe political parties on the far and...
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