The Law and Society Association announces the call for applications for the Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop, May 26-27, 2020, in Denver, Colorado (USA). The workshop immediately precedes the LSA Annual Meeting. Apply here.
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...
ICYMI: John A. Alford and Dennis P. Seniff, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography of Scholarship (Routledge, 2019). Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a...
New from Routledge; Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian W. Nail and Jeffrey A. Ellsworth eds., Routledge, 2019). This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice...
Alexandra Kemmerer, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences; Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International law, and Doren Wohlleben, University of Marberg, have published Im Kalten Krieg der Geschlechter. Mythos...
The excellent site The Conversation offers Jordan Kistler’s essay on the BBC and Netflix’s update on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which will make its debut in early 2020. Writes Professor Kistler, Gothic fiction has always had...
The Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University together with Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. Our aim is to...
From Professors Maria Drakopoulou and Connal Parsley of the University of Kent Law School, news of the launch of the AHRC-sponsored Law and the Human Network. Below is their announcement. We are pleased to...
Paul Salmon, a professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, discusses the image of robots at work in the Star Wars universe and the extent to which those images reflect the actual uses...
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, is publishing Character is a Sacred Bond in volume 24 of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (August 2019). Here is the abstract. Law clings to rules to stabilize...