Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School The politics and law of Doctor Who Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers Friday 5th September 2014 University of Westminster Doctor Who is the BBC’s longest-running drama television series and the world’s longest-running science fiction series. The massive public attention devoted to the show’s…
Law and humanities scholarship is interested in how we engage with texts as readers, spectators, listeners, judges, lawyers and critics—and how this has jurisprudential effect. The formal properties of literature, art, photographs, theatre or legal judgment invite particular modes of engagement, engender certain perspectives, and encourage specific forms of relation. A form which holds significant…
The Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia calls for nominations for the first biennial Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in law, literature and the humanities. Penny Pether (1957-2013) was an Australian scholar whose passionate life-long commitment to the field pervaded every aspect of her teaching, research, and academic work. She helped convene the first…
Congratulations to the winners and participants in the Oxford University Press short film competition for 2013. OUP reports that they were “extremely impressed” with the high quality of entries and will be running the competition again in 2014. It is fascinating to see the law reflect on its cultural legal conscience. Oxford University Press Connecting…
The Starwars Storm Troopers were raising money for a cancer charity. They stood in gleaming white and for a gold coin donation the punters could get a photograph with them. They were in demand. A rough line of supplicants snaked from their entrance, losing definition as it blended into the general busyness. And the Convention…
Feeling Jurisprudential By Darren Parker Excuse the bias, but the law and literature crowd are pretty switched on. You people are pretty open to new ideas, alternative viewpoints and novel contrasts and comparisons when it comes to literary works and their relationship(s) with law. However, the broader legal ‘profession’ perhaps sways to the more conservative…
Tilburg University, Netherlands 6-7 June 2013 Dr Cassandra Sharp At the beginning of the European summer, a group of international scholars gathered together in Tilburg, NL to share current research and ideas around the diverse field of law and popular culture. It was an extremely full and inspiring two days of engaging scholarship that focused…
The Griffith Law Review is proud to announce the debut of Open Space, a new forum for alternative pieces of scholarship, such as interviews, reports on conferences attended, creative works, and photo essays. Open Space aims to foster cutting edge non-traditional legal inquiry in keeping with the journal’s focus on interdisciplinary, socio-legal, theoretical and critical…
Shaun McVeigh This book joins a growing literature that is concerned with the technical means by which relations of law are created and deployed. In part this literature is presented as ‘ethnographic’ in style but more often its strength comes from developing prudential and critical accounts of the roles and tactics of the offices and…
Shaun McVeigh Spatial Politics is published as part of Routledge’s Nomikoi critical legal thinkers series. It presents a law-sensitive account of the broad range of Henri Lefebvre’s scholarship. For some the body of Lefebvre’s work is best left to the history of Marxist scholarship in France. This would be a pity. Chris Butler offers an…