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Angela Fernandez, University of

Posted on August 27, 2008
Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto School of Law, has published "Copying and Copyright Issues at the Litchfield Law School," as University of Toronto Legal Studies Research Paper 08-13. Here is the abstract. The notebook method of legal education used at the famous Litchfield Law School (1774-1833) has long been a subject of intense interest among Connecticut historians, legal historians, and those interested in legal education and the legal profession...

Daytime TV Judges

Posted on August 26, 2008
Taunya Lovell Banks, University of Maryland School of Law, has published "Judging the Judges - Daytime Television's Integrated Reality Court Bench," in Lawyers in Your Living Room, edited by Michael Asimow, (ABA Books, 2008). Here is the abstract. This essay looks at the integrated courtroom on daytime reality television court shows like "Judge Judy", the reasons for the persistent over representation of women and non-white male judges on these shows, why some shows are more popular than other shows, and how these shows may influence the real American legal system...

Call for Book Reviews: Women and the Law

Posted on August 25, 2008
Proposals Due September 25, 2008The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals for contributions to a special book review issue to be published in Winter 2008. We seeks proposals for reviews of any book published in 2008, 2007 or 2006 that contributes to the understanding of women?s experiences with the law...

Cybercrime in Fiction

Posted on August 22, 2008
David S. Wall, University of Leeds, has published, "Cybercrime and the Culture of Fear: Social Science Fiction(s) and the Production of Knowledge about Cybercrime," forthcoming in Information, Communication & Society. Here is the abstract. This article builds upon my previous work (Wall, 2007 & 2008) to map out the conceptual origins of cybercrime in social science fiction and other faction genres to explore the relationship between rhetoric and reality in the production of knowledge about it...

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Law and Literature in the Duke Curriculum

Posted on August 22, 2008
Robin L. West, Georgetown University Law Center, has published, "Literature, Culture, and Law - At Duke University," in Teaching Law and Literature, 2008. Here is the abstract. The article compares programmatic questions from the Law and Literature movement from the 1970s to 1990s with more recent suggestions regarding the foundational questions for the Law and Culture movement...

Film As Evidence

Posted on August 22, 2008
Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published "Cross-Examining Film," in volume 8 of the University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class (2008). Here is the abstract.The Supreme Court decision in Scott v. Harris holds that a Georgia police officer did not violate a fleeing suspect's Fourth Amendment rights when he caused the suspect's car to crash...

Librarians Are Your Friends--Do Not MAKE THEM ANGRY!

Posted on August 22, 2008
MSNBC.com has this story about a Wisconsin woman who failed to return two books in a timely fashion to her local public library, and paid no attention to its sad entreaties about their overdue status. The result: the librarians flexed their muscle, called out local law enforcement, and had her arrested and booked for failure to pay fines and overdues...

Is There a "CSI Effect"?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Donald E. Shelton, Eastern Michigan University, has published "The 'CSI Effect': Does it Really Exist?" in volume 259 of the National Institute of Justice Journal (2008). Here is the abstract. Many attorneys, judges, and journalists have claimed that watching television programs like CSI has caused jurors to wrongfully acquit guilty defendants when no scientific evidence has been presented...

Why Lawyers Should Read Shakespeare

Posted on August 19, 2008
Michael P. Maslanka, the managing partner of Ford & Harrison in Dallas, has this article on Law.com about why lawyers should read Shakespeare. The article begins:Why do students still read Shakespeare? A conspiracy of finger-wagging, we-know-what's-best-for-you high school English teachers? No...

Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Invites Applications for Dissertation Award

Posted on August 18, 2008
Julien Mezey Dissertation AwardThe Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites submissions for its 2009 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities...

The "Discourse of Madness"

Posted on August 12, 2008
Ian Ward, University of Newcastle, has published "The Rochester Wives," in Law & Humanities, v. 2 (2008). Here is the abstract.During much of the nineteenth century England was gripped by periodic 'lunacy scares'. In large part, these scares addressed a more particular concern regarding 'wrongful confinement'...

Film and Historical Narrative

Posted on August 07, 2008
Daphne Barazk-Erez, Tel Aviv University, has published "The Law of Historical Films: in the aftermath of Jenin Jenin," at 16 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 495(2007). Here is the abstract.Filmmaking and the narration of history have been engaged in a complex relationship ever since the early days of filmmaking...

Batman and George W. Bush

Posted on August 06, 2008
Andrew Klavan writes in the Wall Street Journal that Batman, at least as he is portrayed in the new film The Dark Knight, and George W. Bush have a lot in common. "There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W...

The Uses of Narrative

Posted on August 01, 2008
Doron Menashe, University of Haifa, Research Authority, and Hamutal Esther Shamash, have published "Pass These Sirens By: Further Thoughts on Narrative and Admissibility Rules, " in International Commentary on Evidence, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2007. Here is the abstract...

Law in Eighteenth Century English Literature

Posted on August 01, 2008
Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick School of Law, has published "Examining Law Through the Lens of Literature: The Formation of Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England," in the journal Law & Humanities (forthcoming). Here is the abstract.This article examines what eighteenth-century novels and plays can tell us about the formation of marriage both before and after the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753...

The Non-Autonomy of Law

Posted on July 28, 2008
James Boyd White, University of Michigan Law School, has published "Establishing Relations between Law and Other Forms of Thought and Language," forthcoming in 1 Erasmus Law Review (2008). Here is the abstract.The law does not, and could not, exist in an intellectual or linguistic vacuum...

Literature and Comparative Law

Posted on July 28, 2008
Barbara Pozzo, University of Insubria, Department of Law and Economics of Firms and Persons, has published "A Suitable Boy: The Abolition of Feudalism in India, in volume 1 of the Erasmus Law Review (2008). Here is the abstract.This article focuses on law and literature as a challenging tool in teaching courses in comparative law...

Call For Papers

Posted on July 28, 2008
Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & HumanitiesJanuary 9 - 12, 2009Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & SpaHonolulu Hawaii, USA Submission Deadline: August 22, 2008 Sponsored by:University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban NeighborhoodsThe Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance Web address: http://www...

Call For Papers

Posted on July 28, 2008
Israeli Law and Society Association, Annual MeetingGlobal, Regional, and Local: Law, Politics, and Society in Comparative PerspectivesInternational Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 24-26, 2008CALL FOR PAPERSThe Program Committee of the International Annual Conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association (ILSA) invites scholars conducting research on any aspect of Law and Society to submit proposals for individual papers and organized panels...

Kafka's Knowledge of Law

Posted on July 24, 2008
Arnold Heidsieck, University of Southern California, has published "Fictional and Non-Fictional Uses of Administrative, Civil, and Criminal Law by Kafka and His Friends." Here is the abstract. Kafka studied these three branches of law with several then-prominent academic teachers...

Publication Opportunity

Posted on July 23, 2008
Joachim Linder, editor of the online journal IASL Online, invites those interested to submit titles for review in the journal, and to indicate whether they would be interested in reviewing those publications. Reviews in English are welcome. His contact information is email@joachim-linder...

Stella Rimington and Liz Carlyle

Posted on July 23, 2008
NPR has this essay about Stella Rimington, the first woman director of Britain's MI5, and her books featuring intelligence officer Liz Carlyle.

Life Meets TV

Posted on July 17, 2008
Colin Miller, of EvidenceProfBlog, has this interesting blogpost about Kathy Reichs as an expert witness, in the notorious Ohio nun killer case, State v. Robinson. Dr. Reichs is the author of the Temperance Brennan mystery stories and the inspiration for the Bones television series...

Mystery Writer Julie Smith on NPR

Posted on July 15, 2008
Julie Smith, the author of a number of crime novels set in New Orleans (and in San Francisco) discusses the difficulty of taking up writing again after Hurricane Katrina in this interview with NPR.Here's more about Smith's writing.Louise Claire, De-Mythifying Julie Smith, 1(7) Bookcase 14-17 (October 1995)...

A Paper on British Film

Posted on July 15, 2008
Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn of the University of Westminster, and Peter Robson of the University of St. Andrews have published "Genre, Iconography, and British Film," forthcoming in volume 36 of the University of Baltimore Law Review. Here's the abstract...

The Importance of Choosing Literary References Wisely

Posted on July 11, 2008
Over at WSJ blog, Dan Slater writes about a Fair Housing Act case involving a condo association that prohibited all objects in hallways. A Jewish resident challenged the rule under the Fair Housing Act because his mezuzah was removed, claiming the rule discriminated against his religion...

The Engaged Lawyer On Film

Posted on July 07, 2008
Lance McMillian, John Marshall Law School, Atlanta, has published "Tortured Souls: Unhappy Lawyers Viewed Through the Medium of Film." Here is the abstract.Lawyers are unhappy. So bad is the situation that scholars have even asked, "Can one be a lawyer and a happy human being at the same time?" Culturally, the existence of unhappy lawyers is not an unknown phenomenon...

"The worst day in the art studio is still better than the best day in the law firm"

Posted on July 06, 2008
Here's more about Nathan Sawaya, former attorney turned LEGO artist. CNN features him in this story.

New British Legal Drama Causes Comment

Posted on July 03, 2008
A new British legal drama is causing a whirlwind of commentary among barristers. Peter Moffat's Criminal Justice debuted Monday, and immediately caused debate for what some members of the bar consider its indictment of the legal system. An article in the Guardian documents the reactions that some lawyers have to the week-long series...

Call For Papers

Posted on June 25, 2008
Call for Papers and WitnessThe University of Toledo College of Law is pleased to announce a universal and interdisciplinary conference on Saturday, October 25, 2008 in Toledo, Ohio on the subject of: 1808: Fighting for the Right to Dream Scholars are invited to come to Toledo and bear witness and discuss 1808...

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