The AALS Section on Law & Religion seeks nominations for the 2022 Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. This annual award recognizes a paper that “has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the...
Do you follow HBO’s show Succession? You might enjoy episode 36 of the podcast The Politics of Everything, hosted by Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene. It’s devoted to discussing the show, and a special...
Kirk Ludwig, Indiana University, has published The Social Construction of Legal Norms at Social Ontology, Normativity and Law 179-208 (M. Garcia-Godinez, R. Mellin, and R. Tuomela, eds., De Gruyter, 2020). Here is the abstract....
Law, Gender & Popular Culture: Representations of Female Legal Professionals in Contemporary Arab Popular Culture A hybrid round-table discussion by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities By bringing together perspectives from legal,...
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School, has published “Get Drunk”!: Baudelaire’s Defiant Liberalism. Here is the abstract. We live in a period in which liberalism is under considerable pressure.Can poems be...
Evan D. Bernick, Northern Illinois University College of Law, has published Do Hobocops Dream of the Rule of Law?. Here is the abstract. There is little law and even less law enforcement in Martinaise—a...
Devin Humphreys, University of Notre Dame Law School, has published Excerpts from the Model Rules of Dating Procedure. Here is the abstract. Nearly thirty years have passed since the first major attempt at defining...
Forthcoming: Laura F. Edwards, Only the Clothes On Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford University Press, 2022). Here from the publisher’s website is a description...
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Alexandra J. Roberts Myriad was first to find the gene’s location, reserve its knowledge, tie up women and their certain mutations. But isolation creates precisely nothing...
Najmadeen Ahmed Muhamad, University of Birmingham Law School, is publishing The Legal Philosophy of Lon L. Fuller: Profile in The Social Contract Journal SCJ (2020). Here is the abstract. This study addresses how Lon...
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