New from Routledge; Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian W. Nail and Jeffrey A. Ellsworth eds., Routledge, 2019). This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice...
Alexandra Kemmerer, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences; Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International law, and Doren Wohlleben, University of Marberg, have published Im Kalten Krieg der Geschlechter. Mythos...
The excellent site The Conversation offers Jordan Kistler’s essay on the BBC and Netflix’s update on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which will make its debut in early 2020. Writes Professor Kistler, Gothic fiction has always had...
The Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University together with Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. Our aim is to...
Jurisprudence / Law and Culture / Law and the Human
by · Published October 29, 2019 · Last modified September 24, 2020
From Professors Maria Drakopoulou and Connal Parsley of the University of Kent Law School, news of the launch of the AHRC-sponsored Law and the Human Network. Below is their announcement. We are pleased to...
Law and Culture / Law and Film / Law and Robotics / Law and Science Fiction
by · Published October 27, 2019 · Last modified September 24, 2020
Paul Salmon, a professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, discusses the image of robots at work in the Star Wars universe and the extent to which those images reflect the actual uses...
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, is publishing Character is a Sacred Bond in volume 24 of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (August 2019). Here is the abstract. Law clings to rules to stabilize...
Philadelphia’s Alycia Kinchloe has launched the Blazer Beauty Bar . Meanwhile, she continues to run her law firm, Kinchloe Law (@KinchloeLaw) and host her podcast, The Growth Goal.
ICYMI: Monash Law School sponsors the podcast Just Cases, which features the stories behind obscure Australian cases. The podcast’s producer, James Pattison, says, “At Monash Law School, so many juicy and really important court...
On occasion of the launch of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) hosts best-selling author Tara Moss in conversation with Dr. Barbara Pezzotti, reading from and discussing her latest novel Dead Man Switch (release...
More