The Law & Humanities Blog, published by Christine Corcos, explores interdisciplinary topics at the intersection of law and the humanities. It covers philosophical and theoretical analyses of legal concepts such as the ontology of legal facts, the role of law in constructing social identities like whiteness, and historical legal practices at the founding of the United States. The blog also examines the performative aspects of legal language and the cultural significance of legal narratives, including literary figures like Sherlock Holmes. Its content engages with legal theory, history, race and law, legal interpretation, and the social functions of law and legal discourse.
Albert Tan, University of Groningen Faculty of Law, has published Metaverse Realities: Governance, Virtual Property and Legal Ordering in Emerging Virtual Worlds. Here is the abstract.
Facebook’s adoption of Meta has moved the metaverse from specialist discussion into mainstream…
Dan Priel, City University of Hong Kong; Osgoode Hall Law School, has published Bentham’s Children: Intellectual Lineages in Jurisprudence. Here is the abstract.
There is a familiar intellectual line that starts with Jeremy Bentham and ends with contemporary legal…
Panagiotis Galanis, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, has published Roger Williams and Religious Liberty: Conscience, Civil Jurisdiction and the Constitutional Separation of Church and State. Here is the abstract.
Roger Williams occupies an exceptional position in the constitutional genealogy…
Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Disentangling the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. It is forthcoming in the Duke Journal of Comparative & International…
Panagiotis Galanis, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, has published Religion and Nature in the Enlightenment. Here is the abstract.
The Enlightenment transformed the relationship between religion, nature and law. Nature ceased to function solely as an object of theological…
John Croucher, Macquarie University, has published The Murder at Agnes Banks: Unravelling Truth, Lies, and 19th Century Justice.
The setting for a murder that took place in the early days of the New South Wales penal colony in Australia…
Paul S. Miller, Loyola University School of Law, has published Coda: The Framers, the British East India Company, and Guaranteeing a Republican Form of Government. Here is the abstract.
The article takes as its starting point the debate between…
From the American Journal of Legal History:Special Issues: Call for Proposals for 2027The American Journal of Legal History is a well-established, quarterly publication covering all facets and periods of legal history. We are now accepting Special Issue proposals for 2027.Deadline:…
From the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities:
2027
Annual LCH Conference to be held at University of California,
Berkeley
We are excited to announce that our Twenty-Ninth Annual
Conference will take place
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Dana Neacsu, Columbia University; Barnard College, and Paul D. Callister, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, have published From From Myers to Slaughter: A Brief Theory of the Constitutionalization of Secondary Sources. Here is the abstract.
For…
