• Forthcoming: Justin Steinberg, Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron (Cambridge University Press, 2023) @CambridgeUP @ArsScripta

    Updated: 2023-04-26 14:17:00
    : : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 26, 2023 Forthcoming : Justin Steinberg , Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron Cambridge University Press , 2023 CambridgeUP ArsScripta Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press : Justin Steinberg , University of Chicago , Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron 2023 Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's content . In Boccaccio's time , the Italian city-state began to take on a much more proactive role in prosecuting crime one which superseded a largely communitarian , private approach . The emergence of the state-sponsored inquisitorial trial indeed haunts the legal proceedings staged in the Decameron . How , Justin Steinberg asks , does

  • Dyzenhaus and Poole on The Old Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism @LSEnews @UofTLaw

    Updated: 2023-04-23 13:57:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 23, 2023 Dyzenhaus and Poole on The Old Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism LSEnews UofTLaw David Dyzenhaus , University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy , and Thomas M . Poole , London School of Economics , Law School , have published The Old Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism as LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No . 11 2023. Here is the abstract . Comparative constitutional law is prone to two types of error . Thin’ or overly formal accounts overlook important substantive dimensions of law and constitutions . Thicker’ accounts often subsume the legal within politics or culture . Both types of error share a tendency towards presentism which stems ,

  • Kerr on When To Admit Art as Evidence @PKUSTL @WUSTL

    Updated: 2023-04-18 14:13:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 18, 2023 Kerr on When To Admit Art as Evidence PKUSTL WUSTL Andrew Jensen Kerr , Peking University School of Transnational Law , is publishing When To Admit Art as Evidence in the Washington University Law Review Online . Here is the abstract . Jeffery Lamar Williams , better known as Young Thug , is the latest high-profile rapper to have his rap lyrics” potentially entered into evidence as part of a criminal trial . Young Thug himself faces several racketeering , drugs and weapons-related charges . The rap clique he co-founded , Young Slime Life YSL” has been branded by Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis as a street gang , whose affiliate members together face well over 60

  • Graber on Copyright Insight Out: A Legal Sociologist's Perspective @cbgraber

    Updated: 2023-04-17 16:47:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 17, 2023 Graber on Copyright Insight Out : A Legal Sociologist's Perspective cbgraber Christoph B . Graber , University of Zurich Faculty of Law , is publishing Copyright Insight Out : A Legal Sociologist's Perspective in Kritika : Essays on Intellectual Property , Volume 6 Peters Drahos , et al . Cheltenham , UK : Edward Elgar , 2023 forthcoming In my work as a researcher and teacher of legal sociology , copyright issues have always played an important role . I have been particularly interested in studying how copyright has changed under the influence of technology . The start of my career as a law professor in 1998 coincided with the invention of file sharing . In the years

  • Albert on Multi-Textual Constitutions @RichardAlbert

    Updated: 2023-04-10 01:35:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 9, 2023 Albert on Multi-Textual Constitutions RichardAlbert Richard Albert , University of Texas at Austin , School of Law , Department of Government Yale University University of Toronto , Faculty of Law São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas FGV DIREITO SP University of Ottawa , Faculty of Law Universidad Externado de Colombia , Facultad de Derecho Interdisciplinary Center IDC Herzliyah , Radzyner School of Law Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo Airlangga University Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai , is publishing Multi-Textual Constitutions in volume 109 of the Virginia Law Review . Here is the abstract . Imagine the U.S . Constitution were a

  • Coffee on Catharine Macaulay and Edmund Burke @KCL_Law @OxUniPress

    Updated: 2023-04-08 20:29:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 8, 2023 Coffee on Catharine Macaulay and Edmund Burke KCL_Law OxUniPress Alan Coffee , King's College London , The Dickson Poon School of Law , is publishing Catharine Macaulay and Edmund Burke in Reconsidering Political Thinkers Manjeet Ramgotra and Simon Choat , eds . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2023 Here is the abstract . This chapter examines the rival and contrasting political philosophies of Catharine Macaulay and Edmund Burke . The two were almost exact contemporaries in the eighteenth centuries and clashed on their understandings of the fundamental nature of political society and the correct the approach to take on reform . Macaulay and Burke were opposites in

  • McGee on From Clair to Annalise: How To Get Away With Being a Black Woman Lawyer on Television @TheEthicsProf

    Updated: 2023-04-07 14:33:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 7, 2023 McGee on From Clair to Annalise : How To Get Away With Being a Black Woman Lawyer on Television TheEthicsProf Kellyn O . McGee has published From Clair to Annalise : how to get away with being a black woman lawyer on television in International Journal of the Legal Profession available online here Here is the abstract . Clair Huxtable was the iconic mother , wife , and lawyer on The Cosby Show , an American television sitcom that premiered in September 1984. She appeared to be the perfect lawyer—partner in a law firm , prepared for every case , triumphant in every case , and never stepping over , or anywhere near , the boundary line of legal ethics—all while mothering

  • Cossman on #Metoo and the Corporation in Popular Culture @BrendaCossman @SULawRev

    Updated: 2023-04-05 19:40:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 5, 2023 Cossman on Metoo and the Corporation in Popular Culture BrendaCossman SULawRev Brenda Cossman , University of Toronto Faculty of Law , is publishing Metoo and the Corporation in Popular Culture in the Seattle University Law Review . Here is the abstract . This paper considers MeToo films and televisions shows that take place within corporations . Bombshell 2019 The Morning Show 2020 The Loudest Voice in the Room 2019 and The Assistant 2019 each explore the issue of sexual harassment and sexual assault within the corporation , loosely based on real storiesI consider the ways in which these films shows focus on the corporation as the site of MeToo events : sexual

  • Newly Published: Paul Raffield, Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2023) @hartpublishing @BloomsburyBooks @uniofwarwick

    Updated: 2023-04-04 17:14:00
    : : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 4, 2023 Newly Published : Paul Raffield , Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law Hart Bloomsbury , 2023 hartpublishing BloomsburyBooks uniofwarwick Newly published : Paul Raffield , University of Warwick , Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law Hart Bloomsbury , 2023 Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's contents . Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare , Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a stranger’ to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period . The numbers of strangers increased dramatically in the late sixteenth century , as refugees fled religious persecution in continental Europe and sought sanctuary in

  • Stern on Defining Obscenity Before Hicklin: Corrupting Texts in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries @ArsScripta

    Updated: 2023-04-04 15:55:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 4, 2023 Stern on Defining Obscenity Before Hicklin : Corrupting Texts in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ArsScripta Simon Stern , University of Toronto Faculty of Law , is publishing Defining Obscenity before Hicklin : Corrupting Texts in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Literature on Trial Sylvia Sasse and Matthias Meindl , eds . The young person” has often served as one of the primary objects of solicitude for the regulation of obscenity , and while this figure was invoked often during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , it did not provide the only rationale regulators were also concerned more broadly with public morals . This essay considers these

  • Watson on Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech @BWatson_theory

    Updated: 2023-04-03 14:10:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture April 3, 2023 Watson on Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech BWatson_theory Bill Watson , Harvard Law School , is publishing Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech in Law Philosophy . Here is the abstract . This paper examines the role of metalinguistic negotiation in lawyers’ and judges’ speech about the law . A speaker engages in metalinguistic negotiation when the speaker uses a term to advocate for what that term should mean or how it should be used relative to context . While I doubt that legal practitioners employ metalinguistic negotiation in the ways that David Plunkett and Tim Sundell have proposed , it is plausible that practitioners do so in another way .

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