Miscellaneous

New Publications in Law and the Humanities

Posted on June 20, 2008
Some new and newer law and humanities titles.Boulhosa, Patricia Pires, Icelanders and the Kings of Norway: Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts (Boston: Brill, 2005).Chaplin, Susan, The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820 (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).Clary, Amy, Textual Terrain: Wilderness in American Literature, Law, and Culture (Dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2005)...

Robert Johnson and Copyright

Posted on June 20, 2008
Olufunmilayo Arewa, Northwestern University Law School, has published "Borrowing the Blues: Context and the Copyright of Robert Johnson," as Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 08-19. Here is the abstract.In 2004, Eric Clapton released the DVD-CD Sessions for Robert J and the CD Me and Mr...

A Walking Tour of the Naked City

Posted on June 20, 2008
The New York Times features a walking tour of the city as seen through the eyes of Weegee (Arthur Fellig), the legendary photographer, who provided many notable pix, including crime scene photos. See also this article in today's issue. A new book devoted to his work, Weegee and the Naked City, is available from the University of California Press.

Call For Papers: Catholic Social Thought and the Law

Posted on June 19, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS SYMPOSIUM ON CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT AND THE LAW CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CITIZENSHIP Villanova University School of Law October 11, 2008 On the eve of the 2008 election, Villanova University School of Law's sixth annual symposium on Catholic social thought will take up the question of citizenship and political participation...

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Ejecting The Feminine From Hamlet

Posted on June 19, 2008
Carla Spivack, Oklahoma City University School of Law, has published "The Woman Will Be Out: A New Look at the Law in Shakespeare's Hamlet." It will be published in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Here is the abstract.Many readers have noted the abundant references to law in Shakespeare's Hamlet...

Call For Papers: Feminist Legal History

Posted on June 13, 2008
From Professor Tracy Thomas, University of Akron The editors of a proposed book, Feminist Legal History: New Perspectives on Law seek submissions for contributing chapters to the book. This book is an edited collection of essays by leading scholars in law and history that offers new historical and feminist perspectives on law and applies these insights to the legal and social policy issues of today...

ALCH Call For Papers

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Association for Law, Culture, and the Humanities has posted its annual Call for papers. Here's the link to the website. Here's the link to the CFP.

A Taste For the Law

Posted on June 09, 2008
Chris Colin, who writes for the San Francisco Chronicle, sent me a link to his piece on his friend Jose Klein, a newly minted Harvard Law grad, who is also an artist: he captures the essence of famous cases and legal issues on dinner plates. Read up on Mr...

Ripped From the Headlines

Posted on June 05, 2008
Here's an ABA article discussing lawyer-writers who pen scripts for popular legal dramas.

Another Interpretation of Captain Vere

Posted on June 04, 2008
Rob Atkinson, Jr., Florida State University College of Law, has published "Averting the Captain Vere 'Veer': Billy Budd as Melville's Republican Response to Plato" as FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 311. Here is the abstract. This article shows how Melville's Billy Budd, rightly one of law and literature's most widely studied canonical texts, answers Plato's challenge in Book X of the Republic: Show how poets create better citizens, especially better rulers, or banish them from the commonwealth of reasoned law...

A Jury of Her Peers, Domestic Abuse and Animal Abuse

Posted on June 04, 2008
Caroline Anne Forell, University of Oregon School of Law, has published "Using a Jury of Her Peers to Teach About the Connection Between Domestic Abuse and Animal Abuse," in volume 15 of Animal Law Review (2008). Here is the abstract.In this essay I examine Susan Glaspell's short story A Jury of Her Peers in the context of teaching about the connection between domestic violence and animal abuse in an Animal Law course...

Call For Papers

Posted on June 03, 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...

Humor and the Law

Posted on May 26, 2008
Laura E. Little, Temple University School of Law, has published "Regulating Funny: Humor and the Law," to appear in volume 94 of the Cornell Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract.When humor hurts people, they may press claims in court, ascribing blame and demanding redress...

Understanding Privacy

Posted on May 25, 2008
I am very happy to announce the publication of my new book, UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY (Harvard University Press, May 2008). There has been a longstanding struggle to understand what "privacy" means and why it is valuable. Professor Arthur Miller once wrote that privacy is "exasperatingly vague and evanescent...

Law and Gender in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Posted on May 25, 2008
New on SSRN: Carla Spivack, The Woman Will be Out: A New Look at the Law in Shakespeare's Hamlet, forthcoming from Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. From the abstract: Many readers have noted the abundant references to law in Shakespeare's Hamlet...

Joseph W. Dellapenna, Villanova

Posted on May 24, 2008
Joseph W. Dellapenna, Villanova University School of Law, has published "Peasants, Tanners, and Psychiatrists: Using Films To Teach Comparative Law," in International Journal of Legal Information, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2008. Here is the abstract.Films have proven to be a useful teaching tool for a course on Comparative Law...

The Amistad in Music

Posted on May 24, 2008
Today's New York Times has this feature article on Anthony Davis's opera Amistad. For more about interpretations about the Amistad, or the Amistad in the arts, see the following selected resources.Research Guide to the Amistad AffairDoug Linder's Famous American Trials: Amistad PageAmistad Research Center

CBS Cancels "Shark"

Posted on May 14, 2008
The Hollywood Reporter notes that CBS has cancelled a number of shows, including the lawyer drama Shark, which stars James Woods. Read more here. Never mind: the first season is already out on DVDs.

Science, Poetry, and Law

Posted on May 08, 2008
Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published "The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science," in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (2009). Here is the abstract.The role genetic inheritance plays in the way human beings look and behave is a question about the biology of human sexual reproduction, one that scientists connected with the Human Genome Project dashed to answer before the close of the 20th century...

Karin Trustedt, European University

Posted on May 07, 2008
Karin Trustedt, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), has published "The Tragedy of Law in Shakespeare," in Law & Humanities, volume 1. Here is the abstract.This paper focuses on the status of law in regard to nature and art in Shakespeare?s late play "The Tempest...

Logic in Twelve Angry Men

Posted on May 05, 2008
I came across this essay by Joel Warren Lidz on logic and argument in the film "Twelve Angry Men." It originally appeared in the journal Teaching Philosophy.

Mildred Jeter Loving Dies

Posted on May 05, 2008
Mildred Loving, one of the parties in the landmark case Loving v. Virginia, has passed away. NPR has this audio story. Timothy Hutton and Lela Jeter starred in a made-for-television movie that dramatized the case, which made it to the Supreme Court in 1967...

"You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order!"

Posted on May 05, 2008
In a recent "Boston Legal" episode, Alan Shore (James Spader) excoriates the "Supreme Court" (played by lookalikes) for drifting away from "civil rights and liberties" to protectors of "pro-business". Read more in a Legal Times interview with producer/writer David E...

Law & Politics Book Review on Law & Literature

Posted on May 01, 2008
Law & Politics Book Review has recently published an issue with short book reviews of many great works of literature with legal and political themes. The issue is available online here.Here is the table of contents:Introduction. . . . pp. 288-290...

Hart Publishing Launches New Journal on Law and the Humanities

Posted on April 29, 2008
Here's the website for the new journal Law and the Humanities. The journal is peer-reviewed, appears twice a year and costs 90 pounds per year.

Shakespeare and Real Property

Posted on April 29, 2008
Bradin Cormack has published "Strange Love, Or, Holding Lands," in volume 1 of Law & Humanities (2007). Here is the abstract.This paper explores how, in Shakespeare?s sonnets (and in the plays), Shakespeare looks to legal tenure and the mechanics of common-law possession to explore the claim of erotic relation and erotic estrangement on the speaking self and its "self-possession...

Law and Justice in Hamlet

Posted on April 23, 2008
Suzanne Ost, University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire Law School, has published "`But Is This Law?' The Nature of Law, Sovereign Power and Justice in Hamlet," in volume 1 of Law & Humanities (2007). Here is the abstract.The paper addresses questions of legal and political theory concerning the representations of law, sovereign power and justice within Hamlet...

Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow

Posted on April 18, 2008
Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow Faculty of Law and Financial Studies, has published "`With All the Impressiveness and Substantial Value of Truth': Notable Trials and Criminal Justice, 1750-1930", in volume 1 of Law & Humanities (2007). Here is the abstract...

Mark Fenster, University of Florida

Posted on April 18, 2008
Mark Fenster, University of Florida School of Law, has published "The Folklore of Legal Biography," at 105 Michigan Law Review 1265 (2007). Here is the abstract.This essay reviews Spencer Weber Waller's recent biography of the legal realist Thurman Arnold (NYU Press 2005)...

Papers To Be Presented at the Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Junior Scholar Workshop

Posted on April 10, 2008
Here's news from the conveners of the 2008 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Writing Competition, Katherine Franke, Ariela Gross, Naomi Mezey, Hilary Schor, Clyde Spillenger, Nomi Stolzenberg, and Ariela Dubler. Each year we solicit papers from senior graduate students and untenured faculty on topics in law and the humanities...

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