Miscellaneous

Analyzing the Image of the Lawyer in "The Sweet Hereafter"

Posted on February 26, 2009
Timothy P. O'Neill, John Marshall Law School (Chicago), has published "There Will Be Blame: Misfortune and Injustice in 'The Sweet Hereafter'," in volume 5 of the University of Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal (Fall 2008). Here is the abstract...

Lincoln and Popular Culture

Posted on February 22, 2009
The American Bar Association is presenting a program on Lincoln in pop culture: The Lincoln Myth: How Pop Culture Defines America's Great Lawyer/President on February 24. Here's more. David Hundley, of Cinema Mishmash, and I are speaking. Henry White, Executive Director of the ABA is introducing the program, and Edward Adams, editor of the ABA Journal is moderating the program.

World Congress On Law and Literature and CFP

Posted on February 22, 2009
The Italian Society for Law and Literature, headquartered at the University of Bologna, is organizing the 24th IVR World Congress on Law and Literature, which will take place in Beijing from the 15th to the 20th of September. Here's a link to more information on the Society's website, including the CFP.

Rumpole of the Bailey

Posted on February 20, 2009
Paul B. Bergman, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, has published "Rumpole and the Bowl of Comfort Food," in Lawyers in Your Living Room (Michael Asimow ed.; ABA Press, 2009). Here is the abstract. Rumpole of the Bailey was a delightful British television series based on the life and courtroom exploits of John Mortimer's fictional curmudgeonly barrister, Horace Rumpole...

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Tontines, Not Tocsins

Posted on February 20, 2009
Remember the inheritance device behind the death in Agatha Christie's mystery 4:50 From Paddington? (That novel is also known as What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw). Or Thomas Costain's novel The Tontine? Kent McKeever of Columbia Law School investigates tontines further...

Law and Pornography

Posted on February 20, 2009
John M. Kang, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published "Taking Safety Seriously: Using Liberalism to Fight Pornography," in volume 15 of Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (2008). Here is the abstract. In the law review literature on pornography, there is sometimes the depressing story that either liberalism is limply unhelpful to combat pornography or, in its role as philosophical handmaiden, liberalism happily does pornography's bidding...

Civility, Constitutionalism, and the Image of Men

Posted on February 20, 2009
John M. Kang, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published "Manliness and the Constitution," at 32 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 261 (2009). Here is the abstract. Much of the legal scholarship regarding gender focuses justifiably on discrimination against women; accordingly, if such scholarship does discuss men, it does so chiefly to illuminate the ways in which women have been oppressed by them...

Spiritualists and Copyright

Posted on February 18, 2009
Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published 'Ghostwriters': Spiritualists, Copyright Infringement, and Rights of Publicity, in Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays (Christine A. Corcos, ed.: Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009)...

Testimony in Literature

Posted on February 18, 2009
Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, Department of English, has published "Human Rights and Testimonial Fiction: Alicia Partnoy and the Case of Argentina's Disappeared," at 1 Icfai University Journal of Commonwealth Literature 61-78 (2009). Here is the abstract...

Law and Cultural Heritage

Posted on February 18, 2009
From the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP):Three Important AnnouncementsLCCHP 2009 Student Writing Competition in Cultural Heritage Preservation Law Database of Internship/Externship/Job Opportunities in Cultural Heritage Law Students & New Professionals Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation being formed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Student Writing Competition in Cultural Heritage Preservation LawThe Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation announces the 2009 LCCHP Annual Student Writing Competition in Cultural Heritage Preservation Law...

Justice in "Measure For Measure"

Posted on February 16, 2009
John V. Orth, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Law, has published "'The Golden Metwand': The Measure of Justice in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure," in the Adelaide Law Review. Here is the abstract. Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare's problem plays, is a dark comedy depicting Duke Vincentio's effort to restore respect for the law after a period of lax enforcement...

Law and Semiotics

Posted on February 16, 2009
Here is the table of contents for volume 22 of the International Journal of the Semiotics of Law (no. 1, 2009--Special Issue: Lawyers Making Meaning - the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics.The contents of the Special Issue: Lawyers Making Meaning - The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics, Guest Editors: Jan Broekman and William Pencak is as follows:Jan M...

Legal Narrative and Street Law

Posted on February 16, 2009
Elizabeth L. MacDowell, Chapman University School of Law, has published "Law on the Street: Legal Narrative and the Street Law Classroom," in volume 9 of Rutgers Race and the Law Review (2008). Here is the abstract. This Article argues that the failure of anti-discrimination law to address the problems of subordination reflects the hegemonic perspective in legal narratives...

Call For Papers

Posted on February 16, 2009
CALL FOR ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTSCRN No. 9 (Gender and Legal Education)LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING May 28-31, 2009Denver, CODEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL: FEBRUARY 25, 2009 Roundtable: Teaching Gender Inequality in Law Schools Conversations about gender and sexuality in core law school courses are often focused on equality?constitutional doctrines of formal equality meted out by high courts ? rather than underlying causes, effects and forms of inequality...

Call For Papers

Posted on February 11, 2009
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2009)(2-5 December 2009) TRANSPARENCY, CONTROL AND POWER: ISSUES IN LEGAL SEMIOTICSConvenor: Vijay K. BhatiaConference Venue: Department of English, City University of Hong Kong ...

Matlock From Across the Pond

Posted on February 11, 2009
Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn, University of Westminster School of Law, and Peter Robson, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, School of Law, have published "Matlock - America's Greatest Lawyer - Case Closed: A Transatlantic Perspective," in Lawyers in Your Living Room (Michael Asimow, ed...

The Visual, French History, and Virtual Memory

Posted on February 09, 2009
Daniel Maxwell Sussner has published "Projections: The visual structure of French history," a dissertation in partial completion of the requirements for the PhD at Harvard University. Here is the abstract.How do visual media structure historical thinking? In the context of collective memory, this essay argues that engraving, the daguerreotype and film organize how historians make sense of the past...

Call For Papers

Posted on February 09, 2009
?LAW, LITERATURE & RELIGION? ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERSFIRST ANNUAL VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LAW AND LITERATURE SYMPOSIUMOCTOBER 1 ? 3, 2009 Villanova?s Law School and Department of English will hold a law and literature symposium, the first in a projected annual series, beginning Thursday evening, October 1, 2009, and ending Saturday afternoon, October 3, 2009...

The Law and Literature of Basil Montagu

Posted on February 09, 2009
David Graham and John Paul Tribe, Kingston University Law School, have published "Basil Montagu QC (1770-1851): A Portrait of an Early 19th Century Life in Literature and the Law." Here is the abstract. In 1814 Basil Montagu, by now an extremely busy member of the Chancery bar took up residence at 25 Bedford Square in fashionable Bloomsbury...

Witnessing in The Accused

Posted on February 09, 2009
Jessica A. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published "A Witness to Justice," in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society: A Special Symposium Issue on Law and Film (Austin Sara, ed. 2009), pp. 61-91. Here is the abstract. In the 1988 film The Accused, a young woman named Sarah Tobias is gang raped on a pinball machine by three men while a crowded bar watches...

British Advisory Group Says British TV Stereotypes Women

Posted on February 02, 2009
The National Skills Forum, an independent British group, has slammed British television, saying it presents a stereotyped view of women. Somehow, I'm not surprised. In a report to be released tomorrow, the group says"No major British broadcaster has made any commitment to challenging gender stereotypes at work...

Treatise on Legal Visual Semiotics: Call For Papers

Posted on January 29, 2009
The original call for papers specified a closing date of January 15. This call for papers extends the date to February 15th.CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, TREATISE ON LEGAL VISUAL SEMIOTICSEditors: Anne Wagner, Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy and Richard SherwinPublisher: Springer SBM SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND TIMELINE:Expression of interest should be addressed by e-mail to valwagnerfr@yahoo...

Law, Literature, and Political Thought

Posted on January 27, 2009
P. G. Monateri, University of Torino School of Law, has published "Sovereign Ambiguity - From Hamlet to Benjamin via Eliot and Schmitt." Here is the abstract. The Author examines how Romantic Ambiguity lies at the heart of the legal notion of Sovereignty, applying a law and literature approach to notions developed by Benjamin and Carl Schmitt...

I Like To Slog/Among the Blogs

Posted on January 26, 2009
From Mental Floss Blog: Stacy Conradt entertains with 10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories. They include the little known fact that "If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word ?nerd.? On the human rights front: Horton Hears a Who! Somehow, Geisel?s books find themselves in the middle of controversy...

References To Homer in Australian Judicial Opinions

Posted on January 22, 2009
Leslie Katz has published "Homer in Australian Reasons for Judgment or Decision." Here is the abstract. The paper discusses various allusions to Homer or his works in the reasons for judgment of Australian courts or the reasons for decision of Australian tribunals...

Hip Hop, Criminal Law, and Legal Critique

Posted on January 20, 2009
Nick J. Sciullo has published "Conversations with the Law: Irony, Hyperbole and Identity Politics or Sake Pase? Wyclef Jean, Shottas, and Haitian Jack - A Hip-Hop Creole Fusion of Rhetorical Resistance to the Law," in volume 34 of Oklahoma City University Law Review (2009)...

John Mortimer Dies

Posted on January 16, 2009
John Mortimer, author of the "Rumpole of the Bailey" stories, as well as numerous other books, has died at the age of 85. Read more here.

McGoohan, Montalban Die

Posted on January 15, 2009
Patrick McGoohan, known for a number of law-related roles: as "Number 6" in the cult series "The Prisoner," as "John Drake", the hero of the series "Danger Man" and "Secret Agent," and as various villains in several "Columbo" movies, as well as a number of well-received films, has died at the age of 80...

Methods of Teaching Native American Literature and Law

Posted on January 15, 2009
Cristine Soliz, Colorado State University, Pueblo, and Harold Joseph have published "Native American Literature, Ceremony, and Law," in MLA Options for Teaching Literature and Law (Austin Sarat, Cathrine Frank & Matthew Anderson, eds., 2009). Here is the abstract...

Some New Books Of Interest

Posted on January 14, 2009
New books of interestLisa Surwillo, The Stages of Property: Copyrighting Theatre in Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2008).David Thomas et al., Theatre Censorship From Walpole To Wilson (Oxford University Press, 2008).

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