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Defective Detection

Posted on February 02, 2011
NPR reports on what coroners' offices really do, and might fail to do. It's not like TV.

Online Education Humanities Database

Posted on February 01, 2011
Nice mention of the Law and Humanities blog at the Online Education Humanities Database.

Hamlet's Hung Jury

Posted on February 01, 2011
After a notoriously long delay in the proceedings, Prince Hamlet's trial for the murder of Polonius finally got underway in Los Angeles, California (a change of venue from Elsinore was granted--tainted jury pool there). The defense pled insanity, the prosecution argued homicide, and the result after expert testimony and a lot of wrangling was 10 to 2 for conviction...

Where Is Cora Crippen?

Posted on February 01, 2011
Dr. Hawley Crippen's wife Cora disappeared sometime in February 1910. A few months later, he and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, were arrested and stood trial for her murder. Miss Le Neve was acquitted, but Dr. Crippen was found guilty, in one of the most sensational trials Britain had seen...

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Hollywood and Ethnicity on Film

Posted on February 01, 2011
Tung Yin, Lewis & Clark Law School, has published Through a Screen Darkly: Hollywood as a Measure of Discrimination Against Arabs and Muslims, in volume 2 of the Duke Forum for Law and Social Change (2010), which was presented at a symposium at Duke Law School on "The New Face of Discrimination: Muslim in America...

Jack Bauer Syndrome

Posted on February 01, 2011
Tung Yin, Lewis and Clark Law School, has published Jack Bauer Syndrome: Hollywood's Depiction of National Security Law, at 17 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 279 (2008), also presented at the 2008 AALS Section on Law and Humanities panel. Here is the abstract...

Conference on Law, Science, and Technology

Posted on January 27, 2011
From Dr. Maksymilian Del Mar, Institut des sciences sociales, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, news of an interesting conference to be held in August.The Congress of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR), to be held August 15-20, 2011, in Frankfurt,  has the theme "Law, Science, and Technology...

Call For Papers

Posted on January 26, 2011
16TH ANNUAL UBC INTERDISCIPLINARY LEGAL STUDIESGRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE - CREATIVE LAWMay 13-14, 2011, VancouverRegistration Deadline: April 1, 2011Submission Deadline: February 4, 2011The Graduate Law Students' Society of UBC invites graduate students in all disciplines to participate in its 16th annual interdisciplinary academic conference, to be held in Vancouver, Canada, on May 13-14, 2011...

Whodunit? BBC Plans To Answer the Edwin Drood Question This Year

Posted on January 26, 2011
The BBC will offer an answer to The Mystery of Edwin Drood in a new adaptation by Gwenyth Hughes. The new version will air on BBC4 later this year.

Legal Tomfoolery

Posted on January 21, 2011
Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published The Ancient and Honorable Court of Dover: Mock Trials, Fraternal Orders, and Solemn Foolery in Nineteenth-Century New York State. Here is the abstract.This article is about a fraternal order operating in the first half of the Nineteenth Century in New York called ?The Ancient and Honorable Court of Dover...

Jack Bauer and "24": Torture In American Culture

Posted on January 19, 2011
Kate Kovarovic, American University Washington College of Law, has published Our ?Jack Bauer? Culture: Eliminating the Ticking Time Bomb Exception to Torture in volume 22 of the Florida Journal of International Law (2010). Here is the abstract.After eight successful seasons on the air, Americans have come to trust Jack Bauer of 24 to get the job done...

New Television Dramas

Posted on January 14, 2011
This January sees the premiere of two new legal series. "Harry's Law", which stars Linda Bates, premieres January 17 on NBC at 10, 9 Central Time. Harry is a patent lawyer, fired from her firm who begins again as a criminal law attorney. "Fairly Legal" stars Sarah Shahi and premieres on the USA Network on January 20 at 10, 9 Central Time...

The Critique of Law In "A Passage To India"

Posted on January 14, 2011
Allen Mendenhall, Auburn University, West Virginia University, Temple University, and Furman University, has published The Oft-Ignored Mr. Turton: The Role of District Collector in a Passage to India as volume 2, no. 44 of Libertarian Papers (2010). Here is the abstract...

The Right of Publicity In Australia and Singapore

Posted on January 14, 2011
David Tan, National University of Singapore, has published The Fame Monster Reloaded: The Contemporary Celebrity, Cultural Studies and Passing Off at the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 151 (July 2010). Here is the abstract.The common law jurisdictions of Australia and Singapore often adopt a conservative approach to recognising newproperty rights, particularly with respect to the human persona, but courts frequently take their cue from developments in the United Kingdom...

The Legal Interpretation of Art

Posted on January 14, 2011
Uladzislau Belavusau, European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and University of California, Berkeley, has published Art, Pornography and Foucauldian Reconstruction of Comparative Law at 17 Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 252 (2010)...

Semiotics, Law, and Copyright

Posted on January 06, 2011
H. Brian Holland, Texas Wesleyan School of Law, is publishing Social Semiotics in the Fair Use Analysis in a forthcoming issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Here is the abstract.This article presents an argument for an expansion of fair use, based not on theories of authorship or rights of autonomy but rather on a theory of the audience linked to social practice...

Shakespeare's Place in the Law School Curriculum

Posted on January 05, 2011
Allen Mendenhall, Auburn University, West Virginia University, Temple University, and Furman University, has published Shakespeare's Place in Law-and-Literature in volume 3 of the Journal of Liberty and Society (2011). Here is the abstract.Nearly every Anglo-American law school offers a course called Law-and-Literature...

Home Sweet Home

Posted on January 04, 2011
I Bennett Capers, Hofstra University School of Law, has published Home Is Where the Crime Is in volume 109 (2011) of the Michigan Law Review. Here is the abstract.There is a new vision of home that is beginning to gain ascendance, at least from the point of view of legal actors and doctrine in the criminal justice system...

Copying Across Cultures

Posted on January 04, 2011
Madhavi Sunder, University of California, Davis, School of Law, has published Bollywood/Hollywood at 12 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 179 (2011). Here is the abstract.Free flow of culture is not always fair flow of culture. A recent spate of copyright suits by Hollywood against Bollywood accuses the latter of ruthlessly copying movie themes and scenes from America...

A Meditation on Comic Books, Their History, and Copyright Law

Posted on January 04, 2011
Keith Aoki, University of California, Davis, School of Law, has published Pictures within Pictures, in volume 36 of the Ohio Northern University Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract.This is a meditation on the creative process, copyright law, and comic book history...

New Titles From Hart Publishing; Twenty Percent Discount For Readers Of This Blog!

Posted on December 30, 2010
Two new titles of interest from Hart Publishing:Steve Greenfield, Guy Osborn, and Peter Robson, Film and the Law: The Cinema of JusticePub Date: Oct 2010; 9781841137254; Pbk; 392pp; £30 / ?39 / US$30 / CDN$30http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?ISBN=9781841137254Paul Raffield, Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of LawPub Date: Oct 2010; 9781841139210; Hbk; 256pp; £50 / ?65 / US$70 / CDN$70http://www...

Law and the Multiverse Scores With New York Times

Posted on December 20, 2010
The blog Law and the Multiverse is featured in the New York Times.

Categorizing the Informant

Posted on December 20, 2010
Michael Rich, Elon University School of Law, has published A Snitch, Not a Hero: Philosophical Lessons of Loyalty and Disloyalty in the World of Criminal Informants, as Elon University Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-11. Here is the abstract...

Representing Justice: A New Book on the Theme

Posted on December 16, 2010
New book on Representing Justice by Judith Resnick and Dennis Curtis, published by Yale University Press. Pricey but beautiful. Review here from the New York Times. Website here.

Court Citation of Foreign Legal Opinions

Posted on December 14, 2010
Martin Gelter, Fordham University School of Law and the European Corporate Governance Institute, has published Language, Legal Origins, and Culture before the Courts: Cross?Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe as Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No...

Law and the Superwhatever

Posted on December 13, 2010
Check out the new blog Law and the Multiverse, all about supervillains, superheroes and law. Shades of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.

Quiz For the Day

Posted on December 13, 2010
Bored? Tired of grading? Take this Fictional Lawyers Quiz.

New Books Of Interest

Posted on December 10, 2010
Joe B. Fulton, The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature (Louisiana State University Press, 2010).Gregory J. Hampton, Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, Vampires (Lexington Books, 2010)...

Taking "Harry Potter" Seriously

Posted on December 10, 2010
A book by Shira Wolosky on the meaning of Harry Potter. From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Empathy In "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Posted on December 08, 2010
Katie Rose Guest Pryal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has published Walking in Another?s Skin: Failure of Empathy in to Kill a Mockingbird , in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays, Chapter 12 (Michael J. Meyer ed., The Scarecrow Press, UK, 2010)...

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