Matthew Seligman, musician and lawyer, has died from effects of COVID-19. Mr. Seligman was a bass player, having performed with David Bowie, Tori Amos, Thomas Dolby, and among others. He also practiced human rights...
HBO’s new series Perry Mason premieres on June 21. Set in a gritty 1932 Los Angeles, it focuses on a young Mason (played by Matthew Rhys), earning his living not as an attorney but as...
Lori D. Johnson, UNLV School of Law, and Melissa Love Koenig, Marquette Law School, have published Walk the Line: Aristotle & The Ethics of Narrative as an UNLV Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper...
Henry Sumner Maine / Legal Fictions
by · Published April 17, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Legal Fictions and Legal Fabrication at Fictional Discourse and the Law 191 (Hans Lind, ed., Routledge, 2020). This chapter examines two of the most influential theories...
Robin Dembroff, Issa Kohler-Hausmann, and Elise Sugarman, all of Yale University, are publishing What Taylor Swift and Beyonce Teach Us About Sex and Causes in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the abstract. ...
Michael Asimow, Santa Clara Law School, is publishing American Vigilantism — Popular Justice and Popular Culture in Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture: A Global Perspective. Here is the abstract. This essay on American vigilantism...
Maksymilian del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory, Queen Mary University, London, has published Is Historical Knowledge Philosophically Interesting?, a review of Paul Roth’s The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation (Northwestern University Press, 2020). Read...
Law and Culture / Law and Narrative / Law and Rhetoric
by · Published April 6, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
CALL FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE Title of the Special Issue: Law and the Janus-faced Morality of Political Correctness Concerning the possibility of juridically relevant responses, is the culture of the so-called political correctness a...
Taja-Nia Y. Henderson, Rutgers Law School, and Jamila Jefferson-Jones, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, are publishing #LivingWhileBlack: Blackness As Nuisance, in volume 69 of the American University Law Review (2020). Here...
Michael A. Millemann, University of Maryland School of Law, Elliott Rauh, and Robert Bowie, Jr., are publishing Teaching Professional Responsibility Through Theater in the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2020). Here is the...
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