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Blackman on Presidential Subpoenas During the Burr Trials @JoshMBlackman

Posted on August 25, 2020
Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law, Houston, has published Presidential Subpoenas during the Burr Trials. Here is the abstract. Between March and October of 1807, Aaron Burr stood for two treason trials arising from the same set of facts: the first, for a felony charge, and the second, for a misdemeanor charge...

CFP: Special Issue, Art Law and Cultural Heritage Law, Brazilian Journal of International Law @franca_marcilio

Posted on August 24, 2020
CALL FOR PAPERSBRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAWSPECIAL ISSUE ? Art Law and Cultural Heritage LawThe Brazilian Journal of International Law, review indexed on Scopus and Qualis A1, invites submissions for a special issue on Art Law and Cultural Heritage Law to be published in December 2020...

Mirow on Felix Varela y Morales (Cuba, 1788-1853)

Posted on August 24, 2020
M. C. Mirow, Florida International University College of Law, is publishing Félix Varela y Morales (Cuba, 1788-1853) in Law and Christianity in Latin America: The Work of Great Jurists (M.C. Mirow and Rafael Domingo, eds., Routledge, 2020) (Forthcoming)...

Corcos on Three Ways of Looking at Law and Popular Culture @LSULawCenter @IRPI_Paris_II

Posted on August 20, 2020
Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published Three Ways of Looking at Law and Popular Culture in Propriete Intellectuelle et Pop Culture: Nouveaux enjeux, nouveaux defis 9 (Actes du colloque: PI et pop culture) (Actes du colloque des JUSPI) (IRPI, 2020)...

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Simon on The Power of Connectivity: The Science and Art of Transitions @uarizonalaw

Posted on August 20, 2020
Diana Simon, University of Arizona College of Law, is publishing The Power of Connectivity: The Science and Art of Transitions in volume 18 of the Legal Communications & Rhetoric: JALWD (Fall 2021). Here is the abstract. Do transitions really matter? Yes...

CFP: Comics Forum 2020: Pages of Whiteness @ComicsForum

Posted on August 14, 2020
Comics Forum 2020: Pages of WhitenessNovember 2020, OnlineConference Lead: Olivia HicksCall for ContributionsIn White, Richard Dyer argues that race is something which is only applied to non-white people; and thus white people are allowed to speak from a non-racialised, normalised position of power...

Partlett on Constitutional Historiography @WPartlett @MelbLawSchool

Posted on August 12, 2020
William Partlett, Melbourne Law School, has published Constitutional Historiography as University of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 896. Here is the abstract. This paper will argue that the insights of professional historians can and should be used to better understand the use of history in constitutional argument...

Call For Submissions: The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Historical, Sociological, and Cultural Contexts/Intersections/Perspectives

Posted on August 12, 2020
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS?EDITED COLLECTION Proposal/abstract deadline: November 1, 2020Final essays due: April 2021 The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Historical, Sociological and Cultural Contexts/ Intersections/ PerspectivesThis volume, which will be proposed to a leading independent academic publisher, seeks to explore the implications of crime writing in its various narrative forms through essays which situate orientations fictional and non-fictional, past and present in relation to public perspectives...

Three Law-Related Dramas Win Peabody Awards

Posted on March 31, 2011
CBS' legal drama The Good Wife, FX's Justified (based on an Elmore Leonard character), and Sherlock: A Study in Pink (an updating of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes), which ran on many PBS stations this year, have won Peabody Awards...

BBC Drama "Silk" Comes Back To UK Primetime In 2012

Posted on March 31, 2011
The BBC1 series Silk will return to the airwaves next year. It stars Maxine Peake as barrister Martha Costello. Read an interview with writer Peter Moffatt about why law makes such good drama here. Lucky UK viewers can watch the first season of Silk online or on DVD...

Legal Philosophy in the Common Law World

Posted on March 31, 2011
Gerald J. Postema, University of North Carolina, Philosophy and Law, has published Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World, as Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence volume 11, Autumn 2011. Here is the abstract...

The State of Literature: Was It Under Siege? Is It Still?

Posted on March 30, 2011
From NPR: one story about three books that made it past Soviet censors and another consoling us that literature and language will survive in spite of individual tastes and governmental policies.

Coal Mining, Up Close

Posted on March 30, 2011
The Harvard University Press Blog notes that Spike TV premiered a new reality series, Coal, March 30 at 9 p.m. (8 Central time). The first fourteen minutes of the first episode is available for online viewing. It offers a look at the work involved in drilling for and removing the resource from the earth, and the dangers that miners face every day...

Some New Books From Routledge

Posted on March 29, 2011
Some new titles of interest from Routledge (abstracts from the publisher's catalog)Jacques de Ville, Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality (due August 2011).Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida?s approach to law and justice...

Bob Dylan and the Law: Take It From the Top

Posted on March 29, 2011
The blog Nightly Song has an interesting post on Bob Dylan and Law, seeming to take its cue from the Bob Dylan and Law conference post here several days ago). The poster notes and comments on several Dylan songs that discuss, lament or rail against the law and justice...

Rhetoric and Revolution

Posted on March 29, 2011
Fernando Estrada, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Facultadad de Finanzas, Gobierno y Relaciones Internacionales, and Boris Salazar, Universidad del Valle have published Brains that Make Revolutions. Here is the abstract.This paper work assesses the key aspects of a framework for research on revolutions...

UCLA Conference On Pedro Almodovoar

Posted on March 28, 2011
UCLA's New Center for Psychoanalysis is hosting a conference devoted to the films of Pedro Almodovor, Mirrors of the Heart: The Films of Pedro Almodovar. It takes place April 16. Says coordinator Dr. Thomas Brod, "These films are like dreams...There's anxiety in small measures, and you're always in identification with the characters, no matter what they're doing...

The CSA's Legal History

Posted on March 28, 2011
G. Edward White, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Recovering the Legal History of the Confederacy as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-11. Here is the abstract.Although the government of the Confederate States of America has been formally treated as a legal nullity since 1878, from February, 1861 to April, 1865 the Confederacy was a real government, with a Constitution, a Congress, district courts, and administrative offices...

Garrow the Lawyer

Posted on March 27, 2011
The first season of Garrow's Law, the popular BBC series based on the life of eighteenth century barrister William Garrow, is now available in the U.S. U.K. fans can obtain both season 1 and season 2.More about lawyer Garrow's brilliant career here in an article from the Daily Mail, which notes,Garrow was the Robin Hood of the courtroom - a poor boy who had worked his way up and was now determined that the penniless, the ignorant and the weak would no longer be tried by corrupt officials and framed for crimes they did not commit...

A New Blog From Osgoode Law School

Posted on March 26, 2011
Kate Sutherland of Osgoode Law School has launched a new blog, law.arts.culture. Below, the welcome post.Welcome to law.arts.culture, a blog devoted to exploration of the intersection of law and the arts. I?m blogging solo for the moment which is apt to tilt the blog in a literary direction given that much of my research and teaching is in the field of law and literature, and that I?m a fiction writer besides...

Iurisdictio-lex Malacitana: An Interesting Law and Humanities Blog

Posted on March 25, 2011
Germano Schwartz writers the blog Iurisdictio-lex Malacitana in French, Spanish, and English (there might be a few more languages in there) on the intersections of law, the arts, philosophy, and narrative. He holds the degrees of Doctor of Law from the Universidad del Vale do Rio dos Sinos, and studied at Paris X (again, collecting a few more degrees along the way)...

Bob Dylan and the Law

Posted on March 25, 2011
Fordham University is hosting a conference on Bob Dylan and the Law. Bob Dylan and the LawFordham Law SchoolApril 4-5, 2011Co-Sponsored by the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, Touro Law School and the Fordham Urban Law JournalFree and Open to the PublicApril 4th McNally Amphitheater6:00 PM: Welcome ? Professor Bruce A...

Chicago Comes To Neuilly

Posted on March 24, 2011
Noted feminist critic Héléne Cixous takes on the rhetoric of French president Nicolas Sarkozy in Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves, an essay written for The Guardian. She says in part,To set an example he, the smooth talker, would "first of all shed his hang-ups about theFrench language"...

Deadline Approaching For Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction

Posted on March 23, 2011
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ? The deadline for authors and publishers to enter a novel to win the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction is April 8. The ABA Journal and The University of Alabama School of Law created the prize to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ?To Kill a Mockingbird,? and to honor former Alabama law student Harper Lee for the role model she created...

Language and Evidence of Race Discrimination

Posted on March 21, 2011
Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, University of Georgia, has published The Use of the Term 'Boy' as Evidence of Race Discrimination: Apparently the 11th Circuit Didn't Get the Memo? Here is the abstract.In an unusual and interesting case, the 11th Circuit decision was appealed to the U...

Charles Darwin's Grandfather and Epigenetics

Posted on March 20, 2011
Andrew Ellington's essay in The Scientist on Erasmus Darwin's influence. Says Dr. Ellington, a chemistry prof at the University of Texas, Austin, "Erasmus believed that environmental influences, in particular the ?Imagination? of the parents, greatly influenced the phenotype of the child...

The Difficulties of Judging

Posted on March 19, 2011
Peter Tiersman, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, is publishing The Rule of Text: Is it Possible to Govern Using (Only) Statutes? in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty. Here is the abstract.This essay explores whether it is possible to govern solely by means of written text, with little or no interpretive discretion allowed to judges...

The Lincoln Lawyer

Posted on March 19, 2011
To mark the release Matthew McConaughey's newest film, The Lincoln Lawyer, (based on a Michael Connelly novel), which debuted March 18, MSNBC.com devotes a web gallery to "some of the greatest lawyer movies of all time."

Stanley Fish On "The Fugitive"

Posted on March 18, 2011
Jenny Diski reviews Stanley Fish's new book The Fugitive in Flight: Faith, Liberalism and Law in a Classic TV Show (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) in the London Review of Books here. Seasons 1 and 2 of The Fugitive, starring David Janssen, William Conrad, and Barry Morse, is available on DVD...

Law In Context

Posted on March 18, 2011
Reza Banakar, University of Westminster School of Law, has published Having One?s Cake and Eating It: The Paradox of Contextualisation in Socio-Legal Research in the International Journal of Law in Context (2011). Here is the abstract.In Law in Modern Society, Denis Galligan argues that adopting a social scientific perspective, which describes and analyses the law in extra-legal terms, can easily entail losing sight of the law as a distinct social formation...

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