Just Mercy, the 2019 Warner Brothers film centering on attorney Bryan Stevenson’s fight to free Walter McMillian from death row, is streaming free on several platforms this month. You can watch it on Amazon,...
Are you looking for more legal movies, particularly smaller films or those set in non U.S. jurisdictions? Ted Tjaden maintains a regularly updated website on law-related movies here. It includes films by substantive area and...
Giacomo Calorio, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Turin, and Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, have published Inside a frame, behind a glass. A preliminary inquiry on law...
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...
If you’re in self-quarantine because of COVID19, or even if you’re not, you might be itching for some contagion movies to watch while you wait for those fourteen days to pass. What to watch?...
You Get What You Deserve: Joker and Criminal Justice Barbara Hughes-Moore Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar...
Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published References to Movies in Judicial Opinions and Written Advocacy, Part II, at 75 Journal of the Missouri Bar 297 (Nov-Dec. 2019). Here is the abstract....
Santa Claus and law in the movies might seem to be a strange pairing. Yet several films, including The Santa Clause (a homeowner accidentally knocks off the jolly old elf and then must fill in for...
From The Hollywood Reporter: a look at some new movies that feature dynamic lawyers as role models for the profession, and the actors who play them. In the spotlight: Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, and...
David Barnett notes that we are now living in the month and year of Blade Runner‘s fictional “now,” and asks how much of it is real. In an article for BBC Culture, he writes in...
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