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“Ulysses” In Court @ayeletw @simonschuster @q_michaelchabon
From the New York Review of Books, an essay by Michael Chabon on the litigation surrounding the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The essay in slightly altered form also appears in the forthcoming collection Fight...
Movies Can Lead Law Students To Legal Careers @centralparkfive @RBGmovie @saintjudymovie
The National Jurist rounds up 10 Inspiring Movies that suggest the kinds of legal careers law students can follow to do good in the world. These films include When They See Us, RBG, and Saint Judy.
Summer Stranger Danger @lenalwilson @nytimes
Lena Wilson examines home invasion movies in I Know Where You Lived Last Summer in this article for The New York Times. She says in part, The writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest nightmare is part...
Sharon Bala Wins 2019 Harper Lee Prize For Legal Fiction @ABAJournal @RandomHouse
Sharon Bala has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her first Novel The Boat People (Random House/Anchor, 2018). Before her death, Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set...
Lawyering Oops In Popular Culture
From the Writing Excuses podcast, a discussion of what writers get wrong when they write about legal procedures. Lou Perry, an attorney and writer, is the guest. As a followup, Molly Ringle published this...
ICYMI: From the Journal of Legal Education: A Symposium on Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education @TheAALS
ICYMI: Michael Asimow and Ticien Marie Sassoubre, both of the Stanford Law School, have published Introduction to the Symposium on Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education, at 68 Journal of Legal Education...
“The Simpsons” and the Trump Presidency @TheSimpsons
DId The Simpsons predict Donald Trump’s rise to the Presidency? As it turns out, yes. In an episode called “Bart to the Future,” a “vision of the future” episode first aired March 19, 2000, the show...
Women Readers and True Crime Writing @guardian
J. Oliver Conroy interviews journalist Rachel Monroe (Savage Appetites) about the popularity of true crime writing among women readers. Says Ms. Monroe in part, One common, overarching explanation is that true crime stories allow...
Newly Published: A Cultural History of Law (Gary Watt, ed., Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) (The Cultural Histories Series). Six volumes. @BloomsburyPub
Newly published: A Cultural History of Law (Gary Watt, ed., Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) (The Cultural Histories Series). Six volumes. How have legal ideas and institutions affected Western culture? And how has the law itself been...