Deadline Approaching: Proposals Due By May 31, 2020 Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper eds. To talk about the crime...
ICYMI: Terry White, Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller In American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature (Praeger, 2003) (Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture; 9). Here is a description of the contents of the book....
David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, has published Charles Macklin and Arthur Murphy: theatre, law and an eighteenth-century London Irish diaspora in volume 13 of the Law and Humanities Journal (2019). Here is the abstract....
ICYMI: The Law In Shakespeare (Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, eds., 2005). Here’s a description of the book from the publisher’s website. Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare’s plays to...
ICYMI: Jonathan H. Grossman, Department of England, UCLA published The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2002. Here’s a description of the book’s contents from...
Book Review: Nicole Mansfield Wright, Defending Privilege Barbara Hughes-Moore In Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel, Nicole Mansfield Wright impressively critiques the ways in which conservative writers have...
ICYMI: Mark Twain wrote this imaginary prosecution of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper for “literary offenses.” You can find it published at (among other places) 24 Litigation 72 (Winter 1998) as well as here...
Via @rogueclassicist, here’s the Moot Trial of Lysistrata, presented by Classics for All. Mary Howarth Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, presides. Lysistrata (text) Aristophanes
If your reading tastes run to the odd, the eccentric, the Gothic, the off-beat (in literature or history), the pop culture-ish, or the feline, check out Undine’s blog Strange Company. Among her recent psots,...
Newly published: Katherine Isobel Baxter, Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature, and the Humanities). Examines representations of the law in colonial and...
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