Miscellaneous

Penelope Pether on Australian Law and Literature

Posted on December 06, 2007
Penelope Pether, Villanova University School of Law, has published "The Prose and the Passion," as 66(3) On Crime and the Law of 2007. It is also Villanova/Public Policy Research Paper 07-20. Here is the abstract. This essay takes the late Robert Cover's insight that ?No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning,? and thus that ?For every constitution there is an epic? as the starting point for a reading of Australian legal and literary texts about the relationship of the nation and ?outsiders,? as between constitutional subjects and texts...

The Beeb and Microwaved Shakespeare

Posted on December 03, 2007
The BBC offers the productions (I use the word loosely) of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, a group that distills the Bard's plays to their essences. King Lear merits fifteen seconds, Othello turns into rap, and Macbeth, according to the group, was originally recorded on eight-track back in the sixteenth century...

Using Film to Teach Legal Writing: The Case of Dogville

Posted on November 28, 2007
Elyse Pepper, St. John's University School of Law, has published "The Case for "Thinking Like a Filmmaker": Using Lars von Trier's Dogville as a Model For Writing a Statement of Facts," as St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-0083. It will also be published in the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute...

Legal Times notes that this year's

Posted on November 26, 2007
Legal Times notes that this year's Shakespeare Theatre Company's mock trial presented the spectacle of Theodore Olsen, former solicitor general of the United States, and now with the firm of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher, defending President Edward Plantagenet, Jr...

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Erik Jensen, Case Western Reserve

Posted on November 16, 2007
Erik Jensen, Case Western Reserve Law School, has published "Law School Attire: A Call for a Uniform Uniform Code." It is forthcoming in the Oklahoma City University Law Review and is available as Case Legal Studies Research Paper 07-30. Here is the abstract...

Droit Moral, IP, and the World of Harry Potter

Posted on November 16, 2007
Gary Pulsinelli, University of Tennessee College of Law, has published "Harry Potter and the (Re)Order of the Artists: Are We Muggles Or Goblins?" Here is the abstract. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, author J.K. Rowling attributes to goblins a very interesting view of ownership rights in artistic works...

Singing Law School Professor

Posted on November 14, 2007
Today's NPR Morning Edition has a story about Mark Pettit, the singing Contracts Professor of Boston University Law School. According to reporter Tovia Smith, Professor Pettit really spices up the classroom with student-provided parodies of standards like Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and Britney Spears' "[You're] Not That Innocent...

Arthur Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes: The Slater Case

Posted on November 12, 2007
Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow, has published "Arthur and Oscar (and Sherlock): The Reconstructive Trial and the 'Hermeneutics of Suspicion'" in the International Commentary on Evidence, volume 5, article 4. Here is the abstract.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a significant contribution to the campaign to free Oscar Slater, wrongly convicted of murder in 1909, and imprisoned for eighteen and a half years...

Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania

Posted on November 04, 2007
Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published "'Super Size Me' and the Conundrum of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class for the Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker," at 40 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 683 (2007). Here is the abstract...

Conference on Law and Popular Culture

Posted on October 30, 2007
Marquette University Law School is hosting a Conference on Law and Popular Culture November 1st to celebrate the publication of Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions by LEXIS Publishing. The conference is being organized by David Papke, of Marquette.

Call for Papers

Posted on October 30, 2007
CFP: Literature and Law: A CelebrationApril 11, 2008 (Friday)John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) (59th Street and 10th Avenue?near Lincoln Center in Manhattan) Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Andrew Majeske, ajmajeske@gmail.com This conference aims to bring scholars of literature and law into an interdisciplinary setting to share the fruits of their research and scholarship...

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