Miscellaneous

National Security TV

Posted on July 01, 2009
Dawinder S. Sidhu, Hosh Law, has published "Wartime America and The Wire: A Response to Posner?s Post-9/11 Constitutional Framework." Here is the abstract. Pragmatists subscribe to the view that an individual?s practical experiences shape and inform an individual?s concept of the law...

Intellectual Property and the Meaning of Culture

Posted on June 24, 2009
Katya Assaf III has published "The Dilution of Culture and the Law of Trademarks" in volume 49 of IDEA: The Journal of Law and Technology (2008). Here is the abstract. The cultural meaning of a trademark is built up by creating associative links between the mark and various positive cultural signs such as freedom, youth and happiness...

Online Archive of British Newspapers Now Available

Posted on June 18, 2009
The British Library is making available an important archive of nineteenth century papers at British Newspapers 1800-1900. Read more here.

New From Susan Jacoby

Posted on June 18, 2009
A book on the Alger Hiss case: Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Yale University Press, 2009).

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Enabling "Tagging" and Other Art Forms

Posted on June 18, 2009
Randall P. Bezanson, University of Iowa College of Law, and Andrew Finkelman have published "Trespassory Art," in volume 43 of the University of Michigan Journal of Reform (2010). Here is the abstract. The history of art is replete with examples of artists who have broken from existing conventions and genres, redefining the meaning of art and its function in society...

Privacy and the Limits of History

Posted on June 18, 2009
Neil M. Richards, Washington University School of Law, has published "Privacy and the Limits of History," in volume 21 of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (2009). Here is the abstract. A short review essay of Lawrence Friedman's "Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy" (Stanford Press 2007)...

Who Set the Fire?

Posted on June 17, 2009
Cokesbury College, a small Methodist institution in Maryland, burned to the ground in December 1795, and the cause was probably arson. But who set the fire, and why? Until now, no one had uncovered a plausible explanation. But a senior majoring in history and anthropology, Bonnie J...

Non-Profits and Self-Regulation: A Case Study

Posted on June 16, 2009
Edward Balleisen, Duke University, Department of History, has published "Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895?1932." Here is the abstract. From the late 1890s through the 1920s, a new set of nonprofit, business-funded organizations spearheaded an American campaign against commercial duplicity...

The Influence of Cicero

Posted on June 16, 2009
Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published "The Influence on Marcus Tullius Cicero on Modern Legal and Political Ideas," in Ciceroniana, the Atti of Colloquium Tullianum Anni (2008). Here is the abstract. Marcus Tullius Cicero is the father of modern law and politics...

Call for Papers

Posted on June 15, 2009
From the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, announcement of a Call for Papers for a Special Issue. Submit abstracts to the editors of the special issue, Jan Engberg Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University: je@asb.dk Kirsten Wølch Rasmussen, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University: kwr@asb...

Getting Published

Posted on June 11, 2009
The manager of the acquisitions department for the University of Michigan Press suggests that women authors need to "get more aggressive" about approaching presses with their manuscripts and she offers suggestions on just how to do that. Read Ellen Bauerle's essay on getting your work in front of acquisitive eyes here.

Assessing the Law and Literature Movement

Posted on June 11, 2009
Paul J. Heald, University of Georgia Law School, has published "The Death of Law and Literature," as UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-006. Here is the abstract.Thirty years after the publication of James B. White's iconic THE LEGAL IMAGINATION, Law & Literature scholarship has gained no traction in the practice of law...

A New Book On Lawyers and Television

Posted on June 09, 2009
Newly published: Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television (Michael Asimow, ed., Chicago: ABA, 2009).Actors Sam Waterston (I'll Fly Away) and James Woods (Shark) have contributed forewords to this new collection of essays on lawyers, law shows and the craft of writing legal dramas and comedies...

Salinger Sues Over a Sequel

Posted on June 09, 2009
Ron Rosenbaum comments for Slate on the J. D. Salinger lawsuit over 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye here.

More On the Norms of Comedy

Posted on June 09, 2009
Jennifer E. Rothman, Loyola of Los Angeles Law School, has published "Custom, Comedy and the Value of Dissent," at 95 Virginia Law School In Brief 19 (2009). Here is the In this essay, I comment on Dotan Oliar and Christopher Sprigman's article, There's No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy, 94 Va...

Word Play

Posted on June 08, 2009
Cartalk.com promoted a great new website last Saturday, Craig Damrauer's More New Math, which is word play for those of us who prefer not to return to those thrilling days of yesterday when 1 plus 2 equals something other than 3 (don't ask me, I never did get it)...

Women and the First Amendment

Posted on June 08, 2009
Amy M. Adler, New York University, School of Law, has published "Medusa: A Glimpse of the Woman in First Amendment Law," forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Here is the abstract. In this Article, I attempt to solve a First Amendment puzzle by turning to a surprising source...

An Appreciation of John Mortimer

Posted on June 04, 2009
Christopher Hitchens on John Mortimer.

How Much Do a Judge's Words Affect a Juror's Verdict?

Posted on June 03, 2009
Christopher Terranova, New York University School of Law, has published Loaded Words in the Courtroom. Here is the abstract. A few judges recently have banned words like victim from their courtroom, concerned that the defendant will be prejudiced...

Textbook Cover Images and Law

Posted on June 03, 2009
Sarah Beresford, University of Lancaster, has published Judging a Book by its Cover The Deployment (and) Unsettling of Familial Images on Family Law Textbook Covers , forthcoming in the Griffith Law Review. Here is the abstract.An individual's legal identity can be constituted by a multitude of often-complex notions, and is not necessarily of their own construction...

Comedy Is Easy, Dying Is Hard

Posted on June 03, 2009
Actor Mike Doyle explains how to die effectively on camera.

Judge Sotomayor and Nancy Drew

Posted on June 03, 2009
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer discussed Nancy Drew with Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md). Both apparently remember the titian-haired eighteen-year-old detective from River Heights fondly, as do a lot of us. I had nearly all the Nancy Drew books, and read and re-read them avidly, although as I got older, I also read the Hardy Boys, which I liked for the mysteries (I thought the female characters were pretty useless though)...

Re-Examining Star Trek

Posted on May 30, 2009
In his review essay on Star Trek: The Exhibition, Edward Rothstein points out a number of anachronisms and anamolies, most stemming from the original television series and its spin-offs. He notes that mixing reality and pop culture may do neither justice...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Birthday

Posted on May 29, 2009
The late John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. His representation in popular culture is ubiquitous. Think of movies that dramatize events from his presidency such as The Missiles of October (1974)in which William Devane played JFK, A Woman Named Jackie (1991)(Stephen Collins), Thirteen Days (2000)(Bruce Greenwood), and the one that started them all, PT 109 (1963)(Cliff Robertson)...

Happy Birthday, G. K. Chesterton

Posted on May 29, 2009
Happy birthday to G. K. Chesterton, born May 29, 1879, author of the Father Brown stories, and The Man Who Was Thursday, as well as works of philosophy, literary criticism, history, and social critique, many of which few people read any more. Get re-acquainted with him by visiting these sites:The American Chesterton SocietyG...

Art Vandalism

Posted on May 29, 2009
M. J. Williams has published Framing Art Vandalism: A Proposal to Address Violence Against Art in volume 74 of the Brooklyn Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract.The first law journal treatment of art vandalism, this Note considers intentional attacks on art works, primarily in museums and public galleries, and how existing laws fail to address much less control the crime...

Call For Papers

Posted on May 26, 2009
From Penelope Andrews, Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of LawCALL FOR PAPERS - Law and Literature Association of Australia and Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand joint conference 2 to 5 December 2009, Trans(l)egalité...

Imperialism, Nationalism, and "Cymbeline"

Posted on May 22, 2009
Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, has published Imperialism and Nationalism in Early Modernity: The 'Cosmopolitan' and the 'Provincial' in Shakespeare?s Cymbeline, in volume 18 of Journal of Social and Legal Studies (2009). Here is the abstract...

Call For Papers

Posted on May 22, 2009
From Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University:LAW AND JUSTICE ON THE SMALL SCREENInvitation to ContributorsWe are compiling a collection of essays by leading scholars from the world of law and popular culture focusing on the theme of law and justice on television...

Women Attorneys and Their Image

Posted on May 22, 2009
From Concurring Opinions, this post from Deven Desai discussing a Law.com article about what some judges think about how women lawyers dress.

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