Symbols of Law and Justice @laphamsquart
This article from Lapham’s Quarterly features some symbols of law and justice from around the world, including Shamash, the Babylonian sun god, and Durga, the Hindu warrior goddess.
New From NYU Press: Kathryn D. Temple, Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England (NYU Press, 2019) @NYUpress
Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. William Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into...
Zac O’Yeah on Indian Culture in the Sherlock Holmes Stories @the_hindu
Writer Zac O’Yeah (Tropical Detective, A Hero For Hire) discusses Indian cultural elements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories for The Hindu. He notes that while a major pleasure of the stories is...
Why We Should Read Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
From TedEx: An animated explanation for why we should read Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, by Iseult Gillespie of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A short bibliography on Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, and law. J. Gordon...
Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman
It’s Walt Whitman’s Birthday! He was born OTD in 1819. Below is a short bibliography on law and politics and the works of the distinguished poet. Askin, Denise T., Whitman and the Law: A Prophetic...
Fellowship Posting: Kate Hamburger Center For Advanced Study “Law as Culture”
The Kate Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” Fellowship Posting Announcing a Fellowship Posting by the Kate Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” for the research period from April 1,...
AALS Section on Legal History Posts CFP for Section Program, 2020 Annual Meeting
The AALS Section on Legal History is pleased to announce a call for papers for its section program, which will be held during the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The program is...
A Short Bibliography on Dracula and the Law For World Dracula Day
It’s World Dracula Day! Here’s a short bibliography on Bram Stoker’s famous work and the law. Gary Day, The State of Dracula: Bureaucracy and the Vampire, in Re-Reading Victorian Fiction 81 (2000). Peter J....
Forthcoming: Bernadette Meyler on Theaters of Pardoning (Cornell UP, 2019) @CornellPress
Bernadette Meyler, Professor of Law, Stanford University, is publishing Theaters of Pardoning (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) (September, 2019) (Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law). Here, from the publisher’s website, is a description...
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2019 To Be Held June 29 at the University of Warwick @ThomGiddens @routledgebooks
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2019 29 June, University of Warwick The interdisciplinary arena of law and humanities is a rich and developing area of scholarship, with an international and diverse field of academics and...