Family Connections On Game of Thrones
Do you need help following who’s who on Game of Thrones (GoT)? Time Magazine has published a genealogy of the GoT characters. Check it out here.
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2019 Critical Legal Studies Conference, September 12-14, 2019: Call For Papers
The University of Perugia invites streams and papers for the 2019 Critical Legal Conference. The event will take place between September 12 and 14, 2019. The deadline for submission of abstracts is July 15th....
Why the April Fool’s Joke? There Are Lots of Theories @librarycongress
Stephen Winick writes about the origins of the April Fools joke, here, for Folklife Today. He says in part, But where do we get the strange custom of playing pranks on April 1? The short...
PEN America Writing For Justice Fellowships: Call For Applications @PENAmerican
PEN America is accepting applications for its Writing For Justice Fellowships. These fellowships support emerging or established writers in creating written works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and...
Law and Society Association Conference Takes Place May 30-June 2, 2019, Washington, DC @law_soc
The Law and Society Association Conference is scheduled for May 30-June 2, 2019 in Washington DC at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. Here’s a link to the Association’s website, which has links...
A Quick Look at Vinny Gambini in the Legal System
Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit started a recently issued opinion with a citation to the popular film My Cousin Vinny. “In 1992, Vincent Gambini taught a...
Call For Abstracts: JurisApocalypse Now: Law in End Times 2019: LLHAA Conference
Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice, in partnership with the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia (LLHAA), is proud to convene and organise the 2019 LLHAA conference titled JurisApocalypse Now! Law in End Times, which will...
Law Text Culture Vol 24 (2020) CFP
Call for Proposals by Guest Editors Due 1 May 2019 The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2020 edition of the Journal (Volume 24), due for publication in December 2020. Law...
Shades of Rashomon
NBC has green-lit the legal drama Prism, which tells the story of a murder trial from a several different viewpoints. It will star Mykelti Williamson, Malin Akerman, and Sara Rue, as well as Ramon Rodriguez,...
“Deserve Got Nothin’ To Do With It” The Value of Homicide Victims In “The Wire” @ABFResearch
Janice Nadler, Northwestern University School of Law; American Bar Foundation, is publishing ‘Deserve Got Nothin’ to Do with It’: The Value of Homicide Victims in The Wire in the University of Chicago Legal Forum. Here is...