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Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism
My forthcoming book, Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism, is now available for pre-order here at Amazon.com or here at Rowman & Littlefield’s website. From the cover:...
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Simon Stern Publishes Chapter on Law & Literature and the Criminal Law
Simon Stern, who is an associate professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has posted the following abstract to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). The paper, which will interest...
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Donna Meredith Reviews Terry Lewis’s Latest Legal Thriller, Delusional
Donna Meredith Donna Meredith is a freelance writer living in Tallahassee, Florida. She taught English, journalism, and TV production in public high schools in West Virginia and Georgia for 29 years....
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Shakespeare and the Law
Below is footage of a panel discussion between Justice Stephen Breyer, Professor Martha Nussbaum, Judge Richard Posner, and Professor Richard Strier that took place at the University of Chicago in...
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Allen Mendenhall Interviews James Elkins about Law, Literature, Poetry, and...
James Elkins AM: Jim, thank you for doing this interview. You recently came out with a book, Lawyer Poets and That World We Call Law. You’ve been researching and writing about lawyer poets for some...
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Michael Blumenthal Publishes “Just Three Minutes, Please,” with West Virginia...
West Virginia University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Just Three Minutes, Please: Thinking out Loud on Public Radio, by Michael Blumenthal. In these brief essays, Blumenthal...
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What Crisis? Law as the Marriage of Science and the Humanities
This week the Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities convened to consider this question: “How will law and humanities scholarship fare against the pressure of the science and...
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Lines to Holmes
Lines to Holmes A canon of rules and principles, embodied in individual cases, aggregated by judges from different courts and with different ranks, makes up the common law system. Perhaps the better...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and the Literary Quality of his Prose
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s writings are known for their literary qualities. The Class Poet at Harvard, the son of a famous poet, and a lifelong devotee of Emerson, Holmes often rendered his judicial...
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Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism
A Christmas gift available here at Rowman & Littlefield’s website, here at Amazon, here at ebay, and here at Barnes & Noble. The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to...
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Balance and Imbalance in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India is in many ways about losing balance. Characters like Turton, Fielding, and Mrs. Moore represent centers of gravity, fixed between competing tensions and antagonistic...
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Claire Hamner Matturo Reviews Robert Bailey’s “The Professor”
Claire Hamner Matturro, a former lawyer and college teacher, is the author of four legal mysteries with a sense of humor. Her books are Skinny-Dipping (2004) (a BookSense pick, Romantic Times’ Best...
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Claire Hamner Matturro Reviews Robert Bailey’s “Between Black and White”
Claire Hamner Matturro, a former lawyer and college teacher, is the author of four legal mysteries with a sense of humor. Her books are Skinny-Dipping (2004) (a BookSense pick, Romantic Times’ Best...
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The Trial Scene in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice”
The following excerpt is adapted from my essay “A Time for Bonding: Commerce, Love, and Law in The Merchant of Venice,” which may be downloaded at this link. Act IV, Scene I of William Shakespeare’s...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon
My latest book, scheduled for release next week through Bucknell University Press, is about United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The book continues my work at the...
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The American Nietzsche? Fate and Power in Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Pragmatism
Seth Vannatta of Morgan State University recently coauthored a piece with me on Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The piece appeared in the fall...
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Allen Mendenhall Interviews Paul Goldstein About His Latest Novel, “Legal...
Paul Goldstein is an expert on intellectual property law and the Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author of an influential four-volume treatise on U.S....
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