Clarendon Reconsidered: Law, Loyalty, Literature, 1640-1674 (Philip Major, ed., Routledge, 2019). Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century British politics, constitutional history and literature. Despite his influence in these and other...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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