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A Look at Native American Law Through a Michigan Novelist's Eyes

October 07, 2008 22:25

Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law, has published "Laughing Whitefish: A Tale of Justice and Anishinaabe Custom," as MSU Legal Studies Research Paper 06-16. Here is the abstract. Laughing Whitefish, a novel by Robert Traver, the pen name of former Michigan Supreme...

Fan Fiction, Harry Potter, and Copyright Law

October 03, 2008 15:15

Aaron Schwabach, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has published "The Harry Potter Lexicon and the World of Fandom: Fan Fiction, Outsider Works, and Copyright," has TJSL Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1274293. Here is the abstract. Fan fiction, long a nearly invisible form of outsider art, has...

Kafka's POV

October 01, 2008 18:07

Arnold Heidsieck, University of Southern California, has published "Kafka's Narrative Innovation and Ethical Intuitions." Here is the abstract. In his fictions Kafka develops an innovative narrative POV (uni-polar 'self-narration') and a penetrating (near-psychoanalytic) scrutiny of motives....

New Book on Shakespeare and the Law

October 01, 2008 14:27

Hart Publishing is offering a new title called Shakespeare and the Law, edited by Paul Raffield and Gary Watt. It collects the proceedings of a July 2007 conference held at the University of Warwick School of Law. Here's further information provided by the publisher.In July 2007, the School of Law...

Law and Lyrics

September 26, 2008 19:39

Alex B. Long, University of Tennessee College of Law, has published "[Insert Song Lyrics Here]: The Uses and Misuses of Popular Music Lyrics In Legal Writing," in volume 64 of the Washington and Lee Law Review (2007). Legal writers frequently utilize the lyrics of popular music artists to...

Call For Papers

September 26, 2008 17:17

Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the seventh meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington,...

Antigone and the Politics of Lamentation

September 26, 2008 16:36

Bonnie Honig, American Bar Foundation, has published "Antigone's Laments, Creon's Grief: Mourning, Membership and the Politics of Exception," as American Bar Foundation Research Paper 08-02. Here is the abstract.This paper develops a historically situated reading of Sophocles' Antigone as an...

Copyright Issues at an Early Law School

September 24, 2008 15:58

Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto School of Law, has published "Copying and Copyright Issues at the Litchfield Law School," as University of Toronto Legal Studies Research Paper 08-13. Here is the abstract. The notebook method of legal education used at the famous Litchfield Law School...

Rousseau's Emile

September 24, 2008 15:56

Eric Engle, University of Bremen, has published "Law and Literature: Instilling Norms by Fable in Rousseau's Emile." Here is the abstract. The Law and Literature movement proposes that legal interpretation can be improved by borrowing methods from literary interpretation, by seeing legal...

Bells Are Ringing

September 19, 2008 16:16

Via On the Media, a piece by Zachary Pincus-Roth about how phones are vital to the plots of so many Hollywood films.