Miscellaneous

"The Dark Knight," Counterterrorism, and Law

Posted on March 23, 2010
John Ip, University of Auckland Faculty of Law, has published The Dark Knight?s War on Terrorism. Here is the abstract. This article considers Christopher Nolan?s 2008 film, The Dark Knight, as a reflection on legality and security in the post-9/11 era...

Darkness at Noon

Posted on March 18, 2010
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College, has published "Approaching Infinity: Dignity in Arthur Koestler?s Darkness at Noon,"in Philosophy and Literature (October 2009). Here is the abstract.Human dignity underlies human rights and is a pillar of liberal politics...

Extreme Views: They're Ready For Prime Time

Posted on March 17, 2010
From the new issue of Newsweek: the new look of prime time. It's white power, as exemplified by series such as FX's Justified, which features a character created by Elmore Leonard. More about Mr. Leonard here.

Play Verified As Shakespeare's (And Fletcher's)

Posted on March 16, 2010
According to experts, that "literary hoax" that Alexander Pope made fun of in The Dunciad is a hoax no more. It really is by Shakespeare--well, partly by the Bard, and partly by John Fletcher, who was no slouch himself when it came to writing works for the stage...

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History of Spanish Copyright Law

Posted on March 16, 2010
Jhonny Antonio Pabon Cadavid has published "Approximation to the Copyright History: Normative Antecedents (Aproximación a La Historia Del Derecho De Autor: Antecedentes Normativos)," at 13 Revista La Propiedad Inmaterial 59 (2009). Here is the abstract...

Jane Austenisms

Posted on March 15, 2010
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, a consideration of all that derivative Jane Austen literature by Amy Leal.

Teaching Storytelling In Law Schools

Posted on March 11, 2010
Nancy B. Rapoport, William S. Boyd School of Law (UNLV), has published "Where Have All the (Legal) Stories Gone?" at M/E Insights 7 (Fall 2009). Here is the abstract. This essay examines whether law schools are doing a good job of teaching the art of storytelling to law students...

The Law in "Deadwood"

Posted on March 10, 2010
Michael B. Kent Jr., and Lance McMillian, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, have published "The World of Deadwood: Property Rights and the Search for Human Identity." Here is the abstract. The year is 1876. Gold has been discovered in the fledgling camp of Deadwood, bringing hordes of new arrivals each day seeking to strike it rich...

Summer School--Cultural Study of the Law

Posted on March 09, 2010
*Synergies: Law, Language and Culture*The Second International Osnabrueck Graduate Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law August 4th-August 18th http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/lawandculture*Invitation*The Second International Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law will be held from this August 4th to August 18th in Osnabrueck, Germany...

Gender and Reproductive Rights Talk

Posted on March 04, 2010
Lia Alexandra Mandaglio, currently a law student at the George Washington Law School, has posted Speaking Across the Divide: A Functional Grammar Analysis of Feminist and Masculist Reproductive Rights Rhetoric in the United States on SSRN. Here is the abstract...

Summer Seminar Announcement

Posted on March 03, 2010
DAAD Faculty Summer Seminar"Violence and the Law in German Cultures of Modernity"Directed by Prof. Isabel V. Hull, Cornell UniversityJune 14-July 23, 2010The application deadline for this exciting seminar has been extended to March 15 because of an unfortunate oversight in the original announcement! The correct seminar dates are June 14-July 23 (not July 30)...

Conference Announcement

Posted on March 02, 2010
American University Washington College of Law?sProgram on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law present IP/Gender: Mapping the ConnectionsGender and InventionFriday, April 16, 20109:00 am ? 5:00 pmWashington College of Law, Room 1004801 Massachusetts Avenue, N...

Storytelling and Rape Law Reform

Posted on March 02, 2010
Jeannie Suk, Harvard Law School, has published "'The Look in His Eyes': The Story of State v. Rusk and Rape Reform," in Criminal Law Stories (Robert Weisberg and Donna Coker eds.; 2010). Here is the abstract.This chapter for Criminal Law Stories (Robert Weisberg & Donna Coker eds...

The Influence of Narrative In Judging

Posted on March 01, 2010
Kenworthey Bliz, Northwestern University School of Law, is publishing "We Don't Want to Hear it: Psychology, Literature and the Narrative Model of Judging," in the University of Illinois Law Review. Here is the abstract. The ?narrative? model of legal judging argues that legal decision makers both do and should render judgments by assembling sensible stories out of evidence (as opposed to using Bayesian-type, linear models)...

The Supreme Court and Baseball

Posted on February 25, 2010
Ross E. Davies and Craig D. Rust, George Mason University School of Law, have published "Supreme Court Sluggers: Behind the Numbers," at Green Bag 2d 213 (Winter 2010). Here is the abstract. Issued last fall, the Chief Justice John G. Roberts ?Supreme Court Sluggers? trading card pictured on page 213 above is the first in what should be a very long series of ?Sluggers? cards...

The Origins Of Critical Race Theory

Posted on February 25, 2010
Richard Delgado, Seattle University School of Law, has published "Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory," at 94 Iowa Law Review 1505 (2009). Here is the abstract.I wrote this piece exploring some of the intellectual origins of critical race theory for a 20-year anniversary of the movement held at the University of Iowa in April, 2009...

Call For Papers

Posted on February 24, 2010
Call For Papers at the Modern Language Association, 2011Special Session: "Literature and Rights in the Age of Enlightenment"This panel seeks to investigate the intertwined histories of literature and rights in the long eighteenth century. How does imaginative writing in this period contribute to the development of the humanitarian sensibility and the emergence of human rights? Conversely, how do changing conceptions of rights shape novels, poems, plays, and essays? Papers on literary, philosophical, and legal formulations of natural and positive rights, and on questions concerning freedom, equality, justice, toleration, torture, cruelty, and pain are all welcome...

Law and Art Symposium at the Tate

Posted on February 19, 2010
At the Tate, a one day symposium on Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Justice on March 23, 2010.

A Reaction To Malcolm Gladwell's Analysis Of Atticus Finch

Posted on February 19, 2010
Lance McMillian, John Marshall Law School (Atlanta) has published "Atticus Finch as Racial Accommodator: Answering Malcolm Gladwell's Critique." Here is the abstract.Atticus Finch ? the fictional hero of Harper Lee?s 'To Kill A Mockingbird' ? is a legal icon...

Symposium On Food, Culture, and the Law

Posted on February 18, 2010
From Penelope Pether, Villanova University School of Law, an announcement of a symposium on "Food, Culture and the Law," on February 26, sponsored by the University of Iowa and to be held at the Old Capitol Senate Chamber.

Higher Education: The Dumbledore Factor

Posted on February 18, 2010
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, why Dumbledore is a good administrator (but check out the comments--some folks don't agree).

Call For Papers

Posted on February 16, 2010
From Elizabeth Stockton, Southwestern UniversityCFP: MLA 2011 (Los Angeles, CA)Law and Literature of the U.S. before 1900Seeking papers that examine legal and literary discourses in the USbefore 1900. Possible topics might include citizenship, ethnicity,sexuality, imperialism, and the rhetoric of the law...

Call For Papers

Posted on February 16, 2010
From Elliott Visconti at YaleLiterary History and Constitutional CultureFor the MLA?s next conference in Los Angeles (January 2011), the Discussion Group on Law and Literature invites paper proposals that address the relationship, broadly understood, between constitutional change and literary history...

Conference Announcement

Posted on February 08, 2010
The Critical Legal ConferenceFrom Bald de Vries and Since 1984, every first weekend in September, the Critical Legal Conference brings together critical and radical legal scholars from all over the world. It has been a phenomenal success despite its modesty...

Justice! He Demands Justice!

Posted on February 08, 2010
Grant Morris of the University of San Diego Law School argues that in all those lists of great legal movies one great law related movie never rates a mention. It's for that elephant in the room, Dumbo. See Grant A. Morris, The Greatest Legal Movie of All Time: Proclaiming the Real Winner, volume 47 of the San Diego Law Review (2010)...

Law in the Wilderness

Posted on February 03, 2010
Shaun Fluker, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, has published "Wilderness Narrative in Law: The View from Canada?s National Parks." Here is the abstract.In this conference paper presented at the 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment held in Victoria, BC, I briefly examine the relationship between law and the concept of wilderness...

Ponzi For the Twenty-First Century, By Way Of Wall Street

Posted on January 25, 2010
Alessandra Stanley on "Damages" and that ripped-from-the-headlines feel as the third season premieres. Another legendary actor, Len Cariou, visits as the scammy baddie Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) has in her sights.

Roman Law In English Common Law

Posted on January 22, 2010
James Lee, University of Birmingham School of Law, has published "Confusio: Reference to Roman Law in the House of Lords and the Development of English Private Law," as 5 Roman Legal Tradition, 24-66 (2009). Here is the abstract.This paper examines the use of Roman law by members of the House of Lords in three recent decisions: Fairchild vs...

Malcolm Gladwell and Atticus Finch

Posted on January 22, 2010
Lance McMillian, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, has published "Atticus Finch as Racial Accommodator: Answering Malcolm Gladwell's Critique." Here is the abstract.Atticus Finch ? the fictional hero of Harper Lee?s 'To Kill A Mockingbird' ? is a legal icon...

Extraordinary Measures

Posted on January 22, 2010
From the New York Times, a review of Harrison Ford's new film, Extraordinary Measures.

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