William Cowper, The Cause Won
William Cowper (1731-1800) The Cause Won Two neighbours furiously dispute; A field–the subject of the suit. Trivial the spot, yet such the rage With which the combatants engage, ‘Twere hard to tell who covets most...
Carl Sandburg, The Lawyers Know Too Much
The Lawyers Know Too Much Carl Sandburg 1878-1967 THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much. They are chums of the books of the old John Marshall. They know it all, what a dead hand wrote,...
Kielbowicz on Women as Common Scolds in Law and Popular Culture: Pennsylvania, 1824-1972 @UWComm
Richard Kielbowicz, University of Washington, is publishing Women as Common Scolds in Law and Popular Culture: Pennsylvania, 1824-1972 in Gender & History. Here is the abstract. Women faced prosecution as common scolds for their...
Perry on The Messy History of Michigan’s Purity Clause @Jaryehperry @michlawreview
Joshua Perry is publishing The Messy History of Michigan’s Purity Clause in the Michigan Law Review Online. Here is the abstract. Since 1850, Michigan’s constitution has authorized the state legislature to pass laws protecting...
Call For Papers: GTR22: Trento Days on Rhetoric, May 23-24 2022
GTR22 – TRENTO DAYS ON RHETORIC MAY 23th-24th, 2022 CALL FOR PAPERS The Call for papers is open! We invite you to send your contribution and participate in GTR22 – TRENTO DAYS...
Call for Papers: 23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law: IRSL 2023 @AnneWag26082949
Call for Papers: 23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023 23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023 24-27 May 2023 – Roma (Italy) Organizer: Mario Ricca...
Where Law Meets the Humanities: A Special Issue of Talking Humanities
Where Law Meets The Humanities. The contributors to this special issue of Talking Humanities provide an important sample of how the humanities provide a vital sensibility for cutting edge legal scholarship today. In his contribution (The humanities...
Stone on Constance Baker Motley’s Forgotten Housing Legacy @UtahLawReview
Donovan Stone, Duke Law School, is publishing Constance Baker Motley’s Forgotten Housing Legacy in the 2021 volume of the Utah Law Review. Here is the abstract. Constance Baker Motley led the legal assault on...
Call For Papers: International Conference on Law and Art in the Nineteenth Century: Power in Images, Verona October 19-21, 2022
Call for Papers: International conference on Law and Art in the 19th Century: Power in Images Verona 19-21 October 2022 The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David; the courthouse of the Court of Cassation...
Ah, the Crime In Our Songs! @CriFiLover
Crime Fiction Lover (@CriFiLover) offers a list of top twenty songs for crime fiction lovers, including Long Black Veil (The Band), Colors (Ice-T), Desperado (The Eagles), Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi), Smooth Criminal...