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The Law In Haiku

Posted on March 18, 2011
Fun for a Friday: Supreme Court Haiku, a blog devoted to, well, the high court's pronouncements transformed into that elegant poetic form,  the 17 syllable poem called the haiku. But other haiku include those devoted to the Bill of Rights (the Ninth Amendment: Enumeration/Not construed to disparage/Rights people retain/), sitting and past Justices, those devoted to cases, and other blogs (with haiku describing them)...

Using Law

Posted on March 17, 2011
Jamal Greene, Columbia University Law School, is publishing The Anticanon in the Harvard Law Review. Here is the abstract.Argument from the ?anticanon,? the set of cases whose central propositions all legitimate decisions must refute, has become a persistent but curious feature of American constitutional law...

New Books

Posted on March 17, 2011
Boros, Claudine L. Maria-Julia, Justice Henry Fielding's Influence on Law and Literature (Xlibris Corp., 2010).The Cambridge Companion To American Crime Fiction (Catherine Ross Nickerson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010).The Cambridge Companion To English Renaissance Tragedy (Emma Smith and Garrett A...

Teen Mom 3: Out of the Library and Onto the Small Screen

Posted on March 16, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education's Gina Barreca speculates on how Teen Mom 3 would play out if its contestants included, say, Tess Durbeyfield, Hetty Sorel, and that little troublemaker Hester Prynne. Not only would it continue to draw the college student crowd, which already loves the show, but it would "help MTV and the producers avoid pesky lawsuits and various other forms of judicial actions incurred when the stars get arrested for domestic violence, drug possession, or overuse of heavy black eye-liner and ?smoky? lid-color...

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The Face of Murder

Posted on March 16, 2011
The flap over showrunner Brian True-May's remarks concerning the whiteness of the hit show Midsomer Murders shows no sign of abating; indeed, it has spilled over to comments from stars of other shows concerning whether a TV drama ought to reflect reality...

Legal Dimensions of Secularism

Posted on March 15, 2011
Rafael Palomino, Universidad Complutense/Facultad de Derecho, has published Legal Dimensions of Secularism: Challenges and Problems, given at the 17th Annual International Law and Religion Symposium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 3-5, 2010...

Call For Papers

Posted on March 15, 2011
From the Executive Articles Editor of the West Virginia Law Review:The West Virginia Law Review seeks papers on the topic of non-violence as a means of social change and pathway to democracy for former dictatorships or totalitarian regimes for its special issue, Non-Violence and the Road to Democracy...

ALSCH Conference

Posted on March 14, 2011
I'm just back from the ALSCH (Association for the Study of Law, Society and Culture) Conference, this year hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Law School, and I had a wonderful time, as did, I think, the other attendees. Dean John White and his faculty, staff, and students were charming and attentive to us all...

Wife-Selling In "The Mayor of Casterbridge"

Posted on March 14, 2011
Julie C. Suk, Cardozo School of Law, has published The Moral and Legal Consequences of Wife-Selling in The Mayor of Casterbridge in Gender, Law and the British Novel (Alison LaCroix and Martha Nussbaum eds.; Oxford University Press eds.; 2011). Here is the abstract...

The Legal and Cultural History of Legal Aid

Posted on March 07, 2011
Felice Batlan, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicag-Kent College of Law, has published The Gendered Lives of Legal Aid: Lay Lawyers, Social Workers, and the Bar, 1863-1960. Here is the abstract.  The Gendered Life of Legal Aid, 1863-1960 (manuscript in process) will be the first monograph on the history of civil legal aid in the United States...

Post-Modernism, Law, and Behavioral Biology

Posted on March 07, 2011
Edwin S. Fruehwald has published When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View?: Postmodern Legal Thought and Behavioral Biology. Here is the abstract.Postmodernism is a major influence on contemporary jurisprudence. This paper will critique Postmodern Legal Thought using insights from behavioral biology...

The History of the French Railroad Industry in the Nineteenth Century

Posted on March 01, 2011
Guy Numa has published On the Origins of Vertical Unbundling: The Case of the French Transportation Industry in the 19th Century in volume 20 of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2013). Here is the abstract.The paper retraces the origins of the unbundling of infrastructure, which is a monopoly, from services, which are subject to competition...

Summer School Program on the Cultural Study of the Law

Posted on March 01, 2011
From Peter Schneck, Summer School Director:The Third International Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law will be held from this August 7th to August 21st in Osnabrück, Germany. Hosted by the Institute of English and American Studies, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, the Birkbeck School of Law at the University of London, York University, Toronto, The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of Osnabrück, the summer school seeks to bring together graduate students from around the world to promote and examine the interdisciplinary study and research of law and culture...

New Books of Interest

Posted on March 01, 2011
New books of interest:Agamben, Giorgio, The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath (Trans. Adam Kotsko, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2010).Bhatia, Nandi, Performing Women/Performing Womanhood: Theatre, Politics, and Dissent in North India (Oxford: OUP, 2010)...

Critical Legal Conference 2011

Posted on March 01, 2011
An announcement for the Critical Legal Conference, to be held at Aberyswyth University, September 9-11, 2011.

The Humanities--Why?

Posted on February 28, 2011
The American Conference of Academic Deans and Phi Beta Kappa are co-sponsoring a conference for which the theme is "Are the Humanities Now a Luxury?" The conference, scheduled for November 10-12 in Charleston, SC, has posted its request for proposals at the website here.

Atticus Finch as a Christian Lawyer

Posted on February 28, 2011
Lance McMillian, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, has published Atticus Finch - Christian? in volume 77 of the Tennessee Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract.This essay is the third-part of A Dialogue Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of to Kill a Mockingbird's Publication between Professors Lance McMillian and Judy Cornett, featured in the Tennessee Law Review...

A "Mad Scientist" For Real? And In a Movie?

Posted on February 28, 2011
The Scientist features Jim Fields' documentary about neurologist Robert White, who died last year. Mr. Fields notes that Dr. White might fall into the class of the "real" "mad scientist," someone whose thoughtful integration of research and imagination led him toward the boundaries of what we now consider commonplace...

Andrea Bianchi, Graduate Institute

Posted on February 24, 2011
Andrea Bianchi, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, has published Terrorism and Armed Conflict: Insights from a Law & Literature Perspective at 24 Leiden Journal of International Law 1 (2011). Here is the abstract.This article examines some selected issues relating to terrorism and international humanitarian law (IHL): the characterization of the nature of armed conflicts in which armed groups, qualified as ?terrorist,? are involved; terrorism as a war crime; and the determination of the status and treatment (including detention) of terrorist suspects apprehended in the course of an armed conflict...

Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities

Posted on February 23, 2011
Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities?Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum? 2012 AALS Annual Meeting January 4-8, 2012 Washington, D.C.The AALS Section on Law and Humanities will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, D...

Identifying Scientism

Posted on February 23, 2011
Susan Haack, University of Miami School of Law and Department of Philosophy, has published Six Signs of Scientism (Seis Signos De Cientismo) in Discusiones Filoficas, Ano 11 (No. 15) June 2010. Here is the abstract.As the English word "scientism" is currently used, it is a trivial verbal truth that scientism-an inappropriately deferential attitude to science-should be avoided...

Legal Interpretation

Posted on February 23, 2011
George H. Taylor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Legal Interpretation: The Window of the Text as Transparent, Opaque, or Translucent at 10 Nevada Law Review 700 (Summer 2010). Here is the abstract.It is a common metaphor that the text is a window onto the world that it depicts...

Well, "L": The Green Bag Takes On the NYT

Posted on February 23, 2011
Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, is publishing Gray Lady Bowdler: The Continuing Saga of the Crimson Spot in the Green Bag Almanac and Reader 2012. Here is the abstract.This is a short, true story about the Green Bag versus the New York Times, two periodicals doing their best according to their respective lights to serve their respective readerships...

New CBS Comedy Features Yes, More Lawyers

Posted on February 23, 2011
Not enough TV lawyers in your life? Then by all means check out the new CBS comedy Mad Love, which airs Mondays at 8:30 (7:30 Central time). It stars Jason Biggs as Ben and Tyler Lapine as Leo, two young attorneys in the Big City (that's NY), haplessly looking for love...

Mixed Juries In Ireland in the Nineteenth Jury

Posted on February 18, 2011
Niamh Howlin, Queen's University Belfast, has published Fenians, Foreigners and Jury Trials in Ireland, 1865-70 iin The Irish Jurist 2011. Here is the abstract.This paper examines the circumstances which led to the empaneling of a Swiss watchmaker, a French professor and an Italian hatter, along with nine others, to try an American Fenian in Cork in 1865...

The Higher Moral Law and the Fugitive Slave Act

Posted on February 10, 2011
Steven Lubet, Northwestern University School of Law, has published The Oberlin Fugitive Slave Rescue: A Victory for the Higher Law in volume 13 of North & South (2011). Here is the abstract.This article tells the story of the Oberlin fugitive slave rescue and the ensuing prosecutions in federal court...

Secularism, Religious Thought, and Human Rights

Posted on February 10, 2011
Zachary R. Calo, Valparaiso University School of Law, has published Religion, Human Rights and Post-Secular Legal Theory. Here is the abstract.  This paper proposes that the fundamental challenge for religious legal theory is the question of the secular and, in particular, a certain mode of secular reason that has shaped the idea of law within modernity...

The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations

Posted on February 10, 2011
Benedict Kingsbury, New York University School of Law, has published Introduction: The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations in The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations: Alberico Gentili and the Justice of Empire (B. Kingsbury & B. Straumann eds...

Law & Social Inquiry Call For Student Papers

Posted on February 07, 2011
From Law & Social Inquiry2011 Law & Social InquiryGraduate Student Paper CompetitionThe editors of Law &  Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our annual competition for the best journal-length paper in the field of sociolegal studies written by a graduate or law student...

Lincoln's Use of Biblical Imagery

Posted on February 07, 2011
Wilson Ray Huhn, University of Akron Law School, has published A Higher Law: Abraham Lincoln's Use of Biblical Imagery as University of Akron Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-1. Here is the abstract.This article describes Lincoln?s use of biblical imagery in seven of his works: the Peoria Address, the House Divided Speech, his Address at Chicago, his Speech at Lewistown, the Word Fitly Spoken fragment, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second Inaugural...

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