The Law and Humanities Summer School is an intensive one-week study programme, to be held at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, from 15 to 19 June 2020. The school is co-organised by the following...
You Get What You Deserve: Joker and Criminal Justice Barbara Hughes-Moore Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar...
Did you know that Jamie, the unassuming insurance representative from the Progressive commercials, is an attorney? We certainly didn’t, and neither did his co-workers! They find out as he’s showing them his vacation photos....
Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education. Here is the abstract. Discussing federal statutes, Justice Scalia tells us...
Update: please see the below Call for Papers for updates on the Murder and True Crime in the Media conference, including further details of our keynote presenters, and our conference website. This conference is now free to attend...
Do you like your politics with music? Try out Charles Dupee Blake’s Impeachment Polka, in a delightful performance by Michael Adcock of the Washington Conservatory. He has also recorded an album of ragtime for...
A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship in law, literature, and language, Penelope J. Pether (1957-2013) was Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and former Professor of Law and Director of Legal...
Barrister Olly Jarvis maintains The Crime Hub, an interesting intersection of crime fiction, true crime, and crime fiction. Mr. Jarvis is a thriller writer himself, author of Unconvicted (2018), Death by Dangerous (2015), and...
Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published References to Movies in Judicial Opinions and Written Advocacy, Part II, at 75 Journal of the Missouri Bar 297 (Nov-Dec. 2019). Here is the abstract....
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...
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