In a new post for the great website Crime Reads, novelist (and law professor) Alafair Burke puts the spotlight on legal novels which turn on domestic relations issues, including the classic To Kill a...
PBS is bringing the Belgian crime thriller “Professor T” to U.S. audiences on May 2. This hit show features an eccentric academic as the sleuth who helps law enforcement solve mysterious cases. More...
Mare & Martin, the French publisher, has released a new volume in its collection of law and popular culture works. The new book, Du droit dans Game of Thrones (The Law in Game of...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Law Schools: Deconstructing Meaning In Popular Culture Images of Legal Education[1] Introduction Films, television, and novels often send us very specific messages about law schools and...
The Code, a CBS series focusing on JAG lawyers, premieres tonight (April 9th), at 9 p.m., 8 Central time. After tonight, its regular time will be Mondays at 9, 8 Central time. Here’s more
HBO will air a limited series featuring Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason, but a Perry Mason as we haven’t seen him before. This drama featuring the Erle Stanley Gardner character is set in 1930s...
Do you need help following who’s who on Game of Thrones (GoT)? Time Magazine has published a genealogy of the GoT characters. Check it out here.
The University of Perugia invites streams and papers for the 2019 Critical Legal Conference. The event will take place between September 12 and 14, 2019. The deadline for submission of abstracts is July 15th....
Stephen Winick writes about the origins of the April Fools joke, here, for Folklife Today. He says in part, But where do we get the strange custom of playing pranks on April 1? The short...
PEN America is accepting applications for its Writing For Justice Fellowships. These fellowships support emerging or established writers in creating written works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and...