Tomlins on Adelaide's Blackstone

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social PolicyProgram , has posted Adelaide's Blackstone , whi...

Rethinking Protest Music

[We have the following announcement.] Rethinking Protest Music , October 24–25, 2015, Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, Princeton University, Prince...

Welcome, Samantha Barbas!

Samantha Barbas ( credit ) We are delighted to have with us as a guest blogger this month Samantha Barbas , Associate Professor of Law at S...

Legal Life Writing: Workshop and Book Launch

[We have the following announcement.] The Legal Biography Project at the LSE Legal Life Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources - A Works...

CFP: 2016 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop

[We have the following call for papers.] Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, U...

West on Gatsby and Tort

My Georgetown Law colleague Robin L. West has posted Gatsby and Tort : A Scene from the Great Gatsby Festival ( C. Highsmith ) The Great ...

Weekend Roundup

"Donald Trump’s lawyer was right: In some places, raping your wife is still treated like a minor offense" -- so says legal histori...

Sunday Book Roundup

Greetings from The Terrace at the University of Wisconsin, Madison--quite possibly the happiest place to finish up a Sunday Book Roundup aft...

Schorr on Art and the History of Environmental Law

David Schorr, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law , has posted Art and the History of Environmental Law , which is forthcoming in Cr...

Weekend Roundup

A sighting of ASLH past president Bruce Mann in the Washington Post .   QVC Meets the NCC : "Mike George, president and CEO of QVC, ...

Women as Printers, Donors, and Owners of Law Texts

Via H-Law, we have word of a new exhibit at the Yale Law Library, Evidence of Women: Women as Printers, Donors, and Owners of Law Texts. W...

Stern on "Fanny Hill" and Obscenity Law

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law , has posted Fanny Hill and the 'Laws of Decency': Investigating Obscenity in the ...

Sunday Book Roundup

There's no shortage of book reviews to read this weekend! To start with, The New Rambler   reviews Naomi Murakawa's The First Civil...

New Release: "Cambridge Companion to Civil Rights Literature"

Out recently, in cloth and paper, from the Cambridge University Press is The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature , edite...

Meyler on the "Love Triangle" of Law, Literature and History

Bernadette A. Meyler, Stanford Law School , has posted Law, Literature, and History: The Love Triangle , which is forthcoming in the UC Irvi...

New Release: Stockdale, "Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult"

New from the University of Hawai'i Press: Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult , by Jonathan Stockdal...

New Release: Sobecki on "The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463–1549"

New from Notre Dame Press: Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463–1549 (March 2015), by Sebastian Sobec...

New Release: Siegel's "Forensic Media"

Greg Siegel , an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara , has published Forensic Media...

Two New Exhibits at HLS Special Collections

[We have the following announcement.] The Harvard Law School Library’s Historical & Special Collections team is pleased to announce two ...

Images and Imagination in Theorizing about Law Workshop

We have word of the conference Images and Imagination in Theorizing about Law Workshop , to be held May 20,  2015, from 10:30am - 7:00pm, in...