J. Oliver Conroy interviews journalist Rachel Monroe (Savage Appetites) about the popularity of true crime writing among women readers. Says Ms. Monroe in part, One common, overarching explanation is that true crime stories allow...
Special Issue Volume 24 (2020) “The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound” Guest Editors: Mehera San Roque (University of New South Wales Law) Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Canada) James Parker...
Another law and pop culture post from David Kluft at Foley & Hoag, this time on Frankenstein and Copyright. Great information about Mary Shelley’s sale of the copyright of the novel for only thirty...
For the BBC, Nicholas Barber discusses the meanings that we might miss in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz,” released in 1939. Those meanings include the dangers of following a popular but incompetent...
The popular FX series American Crime Story plans to turn its attention to former President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky next when its fall 2020 season premieres. Even more interesting: Ms. Lewinsky will produce...
Newly available: Democracy in America, an interactive digital edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic text, prepared and edited by Alan Keely, Associate Director for Collection Services, Wake Forest Law Library. We have some Tocqueville...
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...
What are the collective nouns (nouns of venery) for hedgehogs and foxes? Depending on the source you consult, for “foxes” you might find “earth,” “leash,” “skulk,” and “sounder.” For “hedgehogs,” you could find “array” and...
Art as Judgment Shubha Ghosh Florian Donnersmarck´s 2018 film, “Never Look Away,” takes us through three periods of German history.[1] This journey is marked by the personal tragedy and rebirth of an...
Why So Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile?: A review of Netflix’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Teri McMurtry-Chubb One year at Halloween there were two sisters, one pre-pubescent and one a teenager,...