• Call For Papers: University of Lucerne: In the Thick of Images: Law, History, and the Visual

    Updated: 2023-10-29 01:06:00
    : : : : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture October 28, 2023 Call For Papers : University of Lucerne : In the Thick of Images : Law , History , and the Visual From Steven Howe , University of : Lucerne In the Thick of Images : Law , History , and the Visual Monday 10 Tuesday 11 June 2024 University of Lucerne CALL FOR PAPERS Suppose that whatever we’ve done , felt , and thought has always happened in the thick of images . 8221 Anand , Pandian Reel Word : An Anthropology of Creation The visual turn’ has long been turning in critical and cultural studies of law see Douzinas Nead 1999 In the past twenty-five years , a growing body of scholarship has evolved that emphasises law’s constitutive imbrication” Crawley 2020

  • Charles on Time and Tradition in Second Amendment Law @JacobDCharles @PeppLaw @FordhamULJ

    Updated: 2023-10-26 01:08:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture October 25, 2023 Charles on Time and Tradition in Second Amendment Law JacobDCharles PeppLaw FordhamULJ Jacob D . Charles , Pepperdine University School of Law , is publishing Time and Tradition in Second Amendment Law in volume 51 of the Fordham Urban Law Journal . Here is the abstract . The Supreme Court’s Second Amendment is a chronological chameleon . For one purpose , its meaning is fixed in the firmament of the Founding era . For another purpose , its language is anchored to the understanding of living Americans . One clause gets projected backwards , traced to antecedents in the 17th century . An adjacent clause gets projected forward , evolving alongside dynamic consumer

  • Casini on Addressing the Use of Rap Lyrics as Criminal Evidence @KCEsq @QuinnipiacLaw

    Updated: 2023-10-24 19:44:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture October 24, 2023 Casini on Addressing the Use of Rap Lyrics as Criminal Evidence KCEsq QuinnipiacLaw Kevin Casini , Qiunnipiac University School of Law , has published Addressing the Use of Rap Lyrics as Criminal Evidence Here is the abstract . The judicial bias against rap music is a growing contributor to systemic racism that must be ended before it causes any more damage . Whether because of personally held beliefs , latent cultural insensitivity , or a win-at-all-costs prosecutorial approach to criminal trials that promotes an appeal to those traits in jurors , prosecutors should be bound from using the Constitutionally protected speech and expression in rap lyrics as evidence

  • Shubho Bijoya

    Updated: 2023-10-24 13:15:38
    Shubho Bijoya greetings to all. Today is what we Bengalis call Bijoy Doshumi, the final day of our most important festival, Durga Pujo or simply Pujo. I’m in Bangalore as a guest at my friend K’s home. The above image is from a Durga puja we visited yesterday evening. It depicts Ma Durga and her … Continue reading "Shubho Bijoya"

  • Narechania on Hamilton's Copyright and the Election of 1800 @tnarecha @BerkeleyLaw @WisLRev

    Updated: 2023-10-16 19:56:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture October 16, 2023 Narechania on Hamilton's Copyright and the Election of 1800 tnarecha BerkeleyLaw WisLRev Tejas N . Narechania , University of California , Berkeley , School of Law , is publishing Hamilton's Copyright and the Election of 1800 in the Wisconsin Law Review . Here is the abstract . Copyright is , perhaps surprisingly , a regular fixture of electoral campaigns . Candidates deploy copyright to obscure prior policy statements . Local governments assert copyright over recordings of public meetings to protect incumbents . And campaign committees have used copyright to prevent counter-advertisements—ads which respond to by embedding their adversaries’ ads . Are these examples

  • Reagan’s Last Speech

    Updated: 2023-10-16 05:31:49
    Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States (1981 – 1989) was a hard act to follow. His last speech as the POTUS is emblematic of who he was. With all his faults and mistakes, he was a true American hero. As a side note, I think Vivek Ramaswamy is the kind of American … Continue reading "Reagan’s Last Speech"

  • Stern on Blackstone's Page and Trollope's Jurisprudence: From Doctrine to Fiction @ArsScripta @CambridgeUP

    Updated: 2023-10-13 16:15:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture October 13, 2023 Stern on Blackstone's Page and Trollope's Jurisprudence : From Doctrine to Fiction ArsScripta CambridgeUP Simon Stern , University of Toronto Faculty of Law , is publishing Blackstone’s Page and Trollope’s Jurisprudence : From Doctrine to Fiction in A History of Punctuation in English Literature Elizabeth M . Bonapfel , Mark Faulkner , Jeffrey Gutierrez , and John Lennard , eds . Cambridge University Press forthcoming , 2024 Here is the abstract . This book chapter explores connections between law and literature by attending to print format , page layout , and typography . It considers William Blackstone’s use of the colon in his Commentaries on the Laws of England

  • Call For Proposals: ACA/PCA National Conference, Chicago, March 27-30, 2024

    Updated: 2023-10-09 21:50:00
    : : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture October 9, 2023 Call For Proposals : ACA PCA National Conference , Chicago , March 27-30, 2024 Just received : From Patricia Peknik , Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences , Berklee College of Music : Call for Proposals : Sessions , Panels , Papers for ACA PCA National Conference in Chicago March 27-30, 2024 We invite papers and presentations on all aspects of law and American culture and law and popular culture , including but not limited to : representations of the Supreme Court , the Constitution , and current cases and controversies pop culture depictions of civil and criminal law , attorneys , and the judicial process cinematic representations of law and justice papers

  • McCall on The Differing Ground on Which Textualists and Classical Lawyers Stand @Vermeullarmine @thenewdigest @Caseyco231 @UofOklahomaLaw

    Updated: 2023-10-06 15:49:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture October 6, 2023 McCall on The Differing Ground on Which Textualists and Classical Lawyers Stand Vermeullarmine thenewdigest Caseyco231 UofOklahomaLaw Brian McCall , University of Oklahoma College of Law , has published The Differing Ground on which Textualists and Classical Lawyers Stand Here is the abstract . In this essay I respond to the essay of Conor Casey and Adrian Vermeule's essay Judge Rao's Unintentional Surrender : On the Augustan Settlement of Our Law , 8221 The New Digest 1 23 August 2023 Although I agree with their overall argument , I offer two suggestions to an explanation of the apparent surrender of Textualists to Classical Common Good Constitutionalism . Yet , I

  • Puzzles

    Updated: 2023-10-05 14:54:44
    We humans are puzzle solvers. We get a certain joy out of solving puzzles. Richard Feynman spoke about “the joy of finding things out.” We are not Nobel Prize-winning geniuses like Feynman but still we do like solving puzzles. Given that we differ in our preferences, we choose different puzzles we attempt to solve. Charles … Continue reading "Puzzles"

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