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.
Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek, both of the University of Hamburg Law School, have published The Situated Universality Of Emotions, Cognition, And International Law: A Biocultural Analogy. Here is the abstract.
Debates about universality are central to both…
CFP for essays/articles in honor of Professor Lenora LedwonCall for Papers
We are delighted to invite abstract submissions (or full
drafts, if ready) for a festschrift of essays and articles in honor of
Professor Lenora Ledwon. The volume …
George Forji Amin, York St. John University Faculty of Law, The University of Manchester School of Law, University of Bolton School of Law, has published From Colonizers to Guardians: International Law and the African Mandates under the League of Nations…
John Witte, Emory University School of Law, is published “Foreword” to Law and Christianity in Japan: The Legacy of the Great Jurists (Grzegorz Blicharz, Kevin Doak, and Jonghyu Jeong, eds., Routledge, forthcoming 2026). Here is the abstract.
This is a…
From William MacNeil, Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland:
I write to invite you to an upcoming theatrical performance in which I feature: a digital staging of Sophocles’ Antigone, delivered over two nights – Mon 3 August (Pt 1)…
Paul F. Accornero has published The Chartered Agent: How the City of London Wrote the Legal Architecture of Agentic Commerce in 1555. Here is the abstract.
The rise of autonomous AI shopping and procurement agents has reopened the debate…
From the Law and Society Association:
The Law and Society Association is excited to continue the work of the Michele Bratcher Goodwin Fellowship in Law and Society, an initiative designed to deepen graduate student engagement in the Association’s work and…
Travis Gilly, Real Safety AI Foundation, has published The Corporate Villainy of Tom Sawyer: Manufactured Scarcity, the Ethics of Attention, and the Literary Prehistory of Dark Patterns. Here is the abstract.
The whitewashing scene in Mark Twain’s The Adventures…
From Anne Wagner, research Associate Professor, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (CGU Calais)
Call
for Papers – 27th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2027)
The Faculty of
Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków is
pleased to…
Soon available for purchase:
Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, eds., New York University Press, 2026). Due in August.
Explores the diverse applications…
