Miscellaneous

Bragagnolo on Crossing Temporal Boundaries: Muratori's Notetaking Practice and the Material Circulation of the Thinking on Law Between the 16th and 18th Centuries

Posted on November 03, 2020
Manuela Bragagnolo, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, is publishing Crossing Temporal Boundaries. Lodovico Antonio Muratori?s Notetaking Practice and the Material Circulation of the Thinking on Law between the 16th and 18th Centuries in Illuminismo di frontiera: riscrivere i limiti giuridici (Francesco di Chiara, Giacomo Demarchi, Elisabetta Fiocchi, Belinda Rodríguez Arrocha, eds...

Foster on Statutory Construction and Biblical Hermeneutics--Law in the Service of the Gospel? @NeilJamesFoster

Posted on November 03, 2020
Neil James Foster, Newcastle Law School, has published Statutory Construction and Biblical Hermeneutics- Law in the Service of the Gospel? at 252 St. Mark's Review 106 (2020). Here is the abstract. Explores similarities between statutory interpretation techniques used by courts, and principles of Biblical interpretation used by Bible scholars...

Women Lawyers on Film and in Television @UTexasLaw @LSULawCenter

Posted on November 02, 2020
A piece by my former student, Danielle Maddox Kinchen: Only the Best and the Brightest: No Room for the Average Female Lawyer in the 21st-Century Cinematic Legal Profession, 21 Tex. Rev. Ent. & Sports L. 55 (Fall 2020). Enjoy!

Balkin on How Lawyers and Historians Argue About the Constitution @jackbalkin @YaleLawSch

Posted on October 30, 2020
Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School, is publishing Lawyers and Historians Argue About the Constitution in volume 35 of Constitutional Commentary. Here is the abstract. Lawyers and historians often quarrel about how to use history in constitutional interpretation...

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Sunstein on Textualism and the Duck-Rabbit Illusion @CassSunstein @Harvard_Law

Posted on October 22, 2020
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School, has published Textualism and the Duck-Rabbit Illusion. Here is the abstract. Textualists insist that judges should follow the ordinary meaning of a legal text, and sometimes texts have an ordinary meaning that judges can follow...

Position Open: FRONTLINE Fellow, Documentary Film Legal Clinic @UCLA_Law

Posted on October 22, 2020
 The UCLA School of Law is accepting applications for a FRONTLINE Fellow for the Documentary Film Legal Clinic.The Fellow will support the Clinic?s activities and supervise the work of the student-clinicians. This is a full-time position for a two-year term, and it is benefits eligible...

Perez on Tolerance of Incoherence in Law, Graded Speech Acts, and Illocutionary Pluralism

Posted on October 21, 2020
Oren Perez, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, is publishing Tolerance of Incoherence in Law, Graded Speech Acts and Illocutionary Pluralism in Legal Theory. Here is the abstract. One of the most difficult challenges of mature legal systems is the need to balance the conflicting demands of stability and flexibility...

Tiersma on The Origins of Legal Language

Posted on October 17, 2020
ICYMI: The late Peter Tiersma, Loyola Marymount, University, published The Origins of Legal Language in The Oxford Handbook on Language and Law (L. Solan and P. Tiersma, eds., 2010). Here is the abstract. This paper examines the origins of legal language...

Dedek on Out of Site: Transnational Legal Culture(s) @LawMcGill

Posted on October 15, 2020
Helge Dedek, McGill University Faculty of Law, is publishing Out of Site: Transnational Legal Culture(s) in The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law, P. Zumbansen ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming. Here is the abstract. Since the inadequacy of the traditional theoretical frameworks for the study of the ?global transformation of modernity? (Beck) became more and more visible in the last decades of the twentieth century, ?culture? has figured prominently in many literature that theorize the post-national condition...

Graphic Justice Discussions 2020, Call For Papers, Closes October 19, 2020 @LexComica

Posted on October 14, 2020
 This is a reminder that the call for papers for Graphic Justice Discussions 2020, the annual conference of the Graphic Justice Research Alliance, is closing on 19 October 2020.   The event is being hosted online by Middlesex University on 8 December 2020, with the theme ?Graphic Justice in Times of Crisis?...

Green on Erie and Constitutional Structure: An Intellectual History @TempleLaw

Posted on October 13, 2020
Craig Green, Temple University School of Law, is publishing Erie and Constitutional Structure: An Intellectual History in the Akron Law Review (2019). Here is the abstract. This essay celebrates Erie's 80th birthday by charting the decision's extremely dynamic significance as a constitutional decision...

Eskridge, Slocum, and Gries on The Meaning of Sex: Dynamic Words, Novel Applications, and Original Public Meaning @EskridgeBill @PacificMcGeorge @YaleLawSch

Posted on October 11, 2020
William N. Eskridge, Yale Law School, Brian G. Slocum, McGeorge School of Law, and Stefan Gries, UC Santa Barbara Department of Linguistics, are publishing The Meaning of Sex: Dynamic Words, Novel Applications, and Original Public Meaning in volume 119 of the Michigan Law Review...

Call For Nominations: Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship

Posted on October 06, 2020
 Call for Nominations: Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship    The AALS Section on Law & Religion seeks nominations for the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. This annual award recognizes a paper that ?has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of law and religion,? in the words of the prize rules...

Call For Proposals: 2021 AAIHS Conference on "The West" @AAIHS

Posted on October 04, 2020
The theme for the 2021 African American Intellectual History Society's Sixth Annual Conference is "The West." It will be a virtual conference. The society's conference committee is accepting individual proposals until October 15. Here's more about the conference...

Barzun on Catharine MacKinnon and the Common Law @UVALaw

Posted on October 03, 2020
Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Catharine MacKinnon and the Common Law as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-69. Here is the abstract. Few scholars have influenced an area of law more profoundly than Catharine MacKinnon...

Call For Submissions: Hedgehogs and Foxes Election Haiku Contest @HedgehogsFoxes

Posted on September 24, 2020
Call for Submissions Hedgehogs and Foxes Election Haiku Contest Hedgehogs and Foxes welcomes Haiku submissions from poets and from those who dabble, especially writers from among the legal academy. As you know a Haiku is a type of short form poetry that consists of three phrases...

Smith on The Mid-Victorian Reform of Britain's Company Laws and the Moral Economy of Fair Competition Enterprise & Society @Laurier

Posted on September 19, 2020
David Chan Smith, Wilfred Laurier University, has published The Mid-Victorian Reform of Britain?s Company Laws and the Moral Economy of Fair Competition Enterprise & Society . Here is the abstract.  This paper reconstructs the history of the reform of Britain?s company laws during the 1850s and makes three major arguments...

Contributions Wanted: Popular Music and Criminal Justice @PopularMusicJnl

Posted on September 17, 2020
Seeking ContributionsContributions are invited to a special issue of Popular Music on the complex interface between rap music (taken in its broadest sense to include mainstream rap, gangsta rap, activist rap, drill, grime, etc.) and criminal justice systems around the world...

Bandes and Feigenson on Virtual Trials: Necessity, Invention, and the Evolution of the Courtroom @BandesSusan @DePaulLaw @QuinnipiacU

Posted on September 17, 2020
Susan A. Bandes, DePaul College of Law, and Neal Feigenson, Quinnipiac University School of Law, are publishingV Vrtual Trials: Necessity, Invention, and the Evolution of the Courtroom in volume 69 of the Buffalo Law Review. Here is the abstract...

Toussaint on Blackness as Fighting Words @EtienneT_Esq

Posted on September 16, 2020
Etienne Toussaint, UDC School of Law, is publishing Blackness as Fighting Words at 106 Va. L. Rev. Online (2020). Here is the abstract. The resurgence of worldwide protests by activists of the Movement for Black Lives (BLM) has ushered a global reckoning with the meaning of this generation?s rallying cry ? ?Black Lives Matter...

Italian Law Journal Releases Volume 6, Issue 1 (2020) and Issues Call For Submissions @theitalianlawjo

Posted on September 12, 2020
The Italian Law Journal has just released Volume 6, Issue 1 (2020), which you can view and download for free at www.theitalianlawjournal.it/current2/. We wish to thank our dedicated readership and all the authors for their valuable contributions.We are delighted to announce that submissions are now open for Volume 6, Issue 2 (2020), which is scheduled to be published in January 2021...

Call For Papers: Polemos: Journal of Law, Literature and Culture @degruyter_lit

Posted on September 09, 2020
  We are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for the next volume of Pólemos: Journal of Law, Literature and Culture, thematised ?JurisApocalyse Now!? General submissions that do not address the theme are also welcome for our research section...

Plater on Poisoning, Women, and Murder in 19th Century Australia @Adel_Law_School

Posted on September 08, 2020
David Plater, South Australia Law Reform Institute, University of Adelaide Law School, is publishing 'Assuredly There Never Was Murder More Foul And More Unnatural'? Poisoning, Women And Murder In 19th Century Australia in volume 25 of the Canterbury Law Review (2019)...

Call For Submissions: Doctoral Forum In Law & Humanities

Posted on September 07, 2020
 Doctoral Forum in Law & Humanities10 & 11 December 2020University of Lucerne   The Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies - lucernaiuris invites submissions for the third meeting of the Doctoral Forum in Law & Humanities to be held at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, on 10 & 11 December 2020...

Janet Malcolm On Learning To Be a Witness

Posted on September 04, 2020
From the New York Review of Books: Janet Malcolm writes about the assistance Sam Chwat gave her in preparing for her appearance in the famous retrial of Masson v. Malcolm. She says in part: The transformation had two parts. The first was the erasure of the New Yorker image of the writer as a person who does not go around showing off how great and special he or she is...

Oseid on Judge John T. Noonan Jr. and Writing With Empathy to Prove That the Human Person Is Central to the Law

Posted on September 03, 2020
Julie A. Oseid, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), is publishing I See You: Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. Writing with Empathy to Prove that the Human Person is Central to the Law in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal (2021). Here is the abstract...

Mootz on Corpus Linguistics and Vico's Lament: Against Vivisectional Jurisprudence @jaymootz

Posted on September 03, 2020
Francis Joseph Mootz, McGeorge School of Law, is publishing Corpus Linguistics and Vico's Lament: Against Vivisectional Jurisprudence in volume 20 of the Nevada Law Journal (2020). Here is the abstract. The ?new textualist? approach to legal interpretation, most closely identified with the late Justice Scalia, argues that the meaning of a legal text is just the ordinary meaning that the words would have had for an average competent speaker of the language at the time of their enactment as a statute...

Corcos on Law and Norms and Will and Grace @LpcProf @WillandGrace

Posted on August 31, 2020
Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published Law and Norms and Will and Grace at 50 Cumberland L. Rev. 85 (2020). Here is the abstract. Like many other popular series featuring lawyers and law-related characters that are not primarily legal shows, Will & Grace was and is primarily a ?relationship? show...

Savage on COVID-1619: A Brief History of Racism @Dr_Audra_Savage @EmoryLaw

Posted on August 27, 2020
Audra Savage, Emory University Law School,has published COVID-1619: A Brief History of Racism. Here is the abstract. Racism is the use of Black people to achieve the goals of white people without regard to the personhood, humanity, and agency of Blacks...

Hadley on Tribal Tattoos and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation Claims @DrMarie_IP

Posted on August 25, 2020
Marie Hadley, Newcastle Law School, has published Tribal Tattoos and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation Claims. Here is the abstract. This article explores the nature of cultural appropriation claims as a statement of possession over cultural property and a performative utterance that resists oppression...

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