The Canadian Network of Law and Humanities (CNLH) brings together a community of scholars interested in the cultural, imaginative and embodied aspects of law. The website for CNLH is up and running at: https://cnlh.ubc.ca/ The site includes a list of members, institutional partners, teaching resources such as course syllabi, a short blog entry, and videos,…
Edited by Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis, this collection comes out later in June. Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold…
Critical Legal Conference 2021 – University of Dundee – 2-4 September 2021 The Agency of the Artist-scholar We invite presentations that explore the figure of the artist-scholar. The agency of the artist-scholar is almost always post-contemporary. It engages with arts and literature (sensorial and textual knowledge) across time-senses. When it does break through the norms…
The School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a prospective PhD candidate. A scholarship is available for applications related to the ARC-funded project “New Approaches to Corporate Legality: Beyond Neoliberal Governance”. If you are interested, applications are due by 4pm Monday 15th February, 2021.…
The Australian Feminist Law Journal wishes to appoint a new editorial team to take over the leadership of the journal from the current board. Launched over 25 years ago, the Australian Feminist Law Journal was created to focus on research that uses critical feminist approaches to law and justice. We publish research informed by critical…
Just in time the holidays, Professor Desmond Manderson’s award winning text Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts has arrived in paperback. Winning the 2019 Penny Pether Prize for Law and the Humanities and sharing the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards’ Book Award, this interdisciplinary work makes an ideal stocking filler for those…
Congratulations to Professor Katherine Biber and Professor Desmond Manderson, longstanding members of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia, for co-winning the inaugural Australian Legal Research Awards book prize. The prizes were announced on the 17th November 2020. Professor Katherine Biber (UTS, Sydney) for her book In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence; and Professor…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 47(2), 2021 Special Issue Editors: Miriam Bak McKenna and Maj Grasten A core concern of critical feminist legal studies is the gendered nature of the language of law. Language conducts and projects power and struggles. Its usage is both a political tool and a…
The Graphic Justice Research Alliance (GJRA) is delighted to announce a call for papers for its 2020 annual conference to be hosted by Middlesex University London. The conference will be held online on Tuesday 8 December 2020. It promises to be an exciting event; accessible and relevant to scholars, artists, practitioners, policymakers, writers, and the…
Please access and register for the presentations by clicking here Surveillance is central to the functioning of 21st century capitalism and modern social welfare. It has often been displayed as necessarily intrusive and threatening. The present initiative builds on the suggestions that an articulate discussion about humanities could be fruitful in producing a more complex picture and…
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00 pm (Australian Eastern Time) from September 4th 2020 Please register for the series here Metaphors are indispensable tools for making sense of reality, including the ongoing reality of systemic colonial relations—or to obfuscate it (to deflect the need to enact substantive decolonisation agendas, for example). In times of crisis they perform…
where are you today is a new work by Manus Recording Project Collective, continuing the collective’s practice of documenting, sharing and circulating audio recordings from inside Australia’s on- and off-shore detention centres for refugees and asylum seekers. where are you today will comprise a new set of ten-minute audio recordings, produced and delivered via text message over…
Special Issue of Law & Critique(Issue 3 of Volume 32, to be published November 2021) On behalf of the Editorial Committee of Law & Critique, Special Issue Editors Dr Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Dr Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria, Canada) invite expressions of interest from scholars interested in submitting a…
We get the metaphors we deserve. Metaphors are indispensable tools for making sense of reality, including the ongoing reality of systemic colonial relations—or to obfuscate it (to deflect the need to enact substantive decolonisation agendas, for example). In times of crisis they perform a crucial role in translating and interpreting a rapidly changing world. Viral…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 47.1, June 2021 Special Issue Editors: Dr Gina Heathcote, Dr Paola Zichi, Alice Finden This special issue will bring together research addressing hygiene, coloniality and law, and their instrumentalisation as regulatory tools of governance. Discursive understandings of morality and sexual mores were central…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 46.2 December 2020 Special Issue Editor: Nan Seuffert Recent years have witnessed a global explosion of discourse around sexuality focusing on debate over the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate sex under the banner of the #metoo campaign. In this context of genuine confusion…
Cultural legal studies is a burgeoning field, encountering law and justice in relation to a wide variety of cultural and artistic forms. It engages not merely representations of law and justice, but the role that culture plays in constituting the very possibility of legality. The aim of this Handbook is to help consolidate this field…
I lived principally in the country as a girl, and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque parts; but my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them; they were not so to…
Law, Technology and Humans is an innovative open access journal that encourages research and scholarship on the human and humanity of law and technology. It is sponsored by the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and is advised by a leading International Editorial Board. Read more about the journal, submission and accessing published…
The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) is a young, regional university with a rapidly growing Higher Degree by Research (HDR) student cohort. Our cohort has developed at an accelerated rate in an environment with an ever-developing research capacity and increased regulatory and budgetary pressures. For universities, the creation of a research community is not…
21st Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRLS) and 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics) The Institute of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University together with Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. The…
Dale Mitchell, Dr Ashley Pearson & Dr Timothy D Peters CALL FOR PAPERS Law is the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game. Through law, individuals are characterised, subject-object relations are constructed and enforced, and concepts of worth and identity are founded. Playing Law seeks to showcase the power of play and the boundless potential of the video…
AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST LAW JOURNAL A Critical Legal Journal CALL FOR PAPERS FOR GENERAL ISSUE Volume 46.1, June 2020 Deadline EXTENDED – 30 November 2019 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 46.1 (June 2020). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical…
Paul Barclay (ABC RN Big Ideas) in conversation with Prof Desmond Manderson (Australian National University), Prof Hilary Charlesworth (University of Melbourne), and Dr Julie Gough (Artist, Writer, Curator)Friday 20 September 2019 – 5:30 to 7:00 pmMelbourne Law School, Room 920 Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities and ABC Radio National’s Big…
Special Issue Volume 24 (2020) “The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound” Guest Editors: Mehera San Roque (University of New South Wales Law) Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Canada) James Parker (Melbourne Law School) While the “visual turn” in socio-legal scholarship has generated a rich picture of the significance of the image…
The ANU Centre for Law, Art and the Humanities presents Visions Not So Splendid: Art, Law, Justice on Thursday 22 August, 12:00-4:30PM at the Sir Ronald Wilson Building Lecture Theatre, Australian National University. The event features a number of presentations from domestic and international academics working at the intersections of art, law and justice. This…
Professor Desmond Manderson, Australian National University, presents another contribution to interdisciplinary legal scholarship in Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts. The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning field to a new maturity…
Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice, in partnership with the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia (LLHAA), is proud to convene and organise the 2019 LLHAA conference titled JurisApocalypse Now! Law in End Times, which will be held at Southern Cross University Gold Coast Campus on 2-4 December 2019. The conference will explore the intersection…
Call for Proposals by Guest Editors Due 1 May 2019 The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2020 edition of the Journal (Volume 24), due for publication in December 2020. Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges about law and jurisprudence across three…
Kent Law School announces its annual Kent Summer School in Critical Theory (KSSCT), running again this year in Paris, from 1 to 12 July. The KSSCT offers early career and doctoral researchers from all disciplines the opportunity to participate in a single two-week intensive seminar with a leading critical thinker. This year, the seminars will…
“I’m a bit worried about something, and I need your advice.” My good friend, Ariana*, had submitted papers to two international conferences. Each of these conferences promised opportunities to engage with experts in her field, comprehensive peer-review processes for all paper submissions, and were to be hosted in two world cities – Paris, France and…
Drawing on jurisprudential, theological, and philosophical sources, this project explores the relationship between law and love. In particular, it seeks to understand how the category of love can inform our understanding of the meaning, foundation, and ends of law. Other recent projects have explored the relationship between law and love, including essays in Agape, Justice,…
Artwork by Vendela Apro-Wellman The Arts Research in the Creative Humanities Research Cluster at USC is hosting: The Creative Humanities Matters Colloquium, 19-21st November 2018 Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres 2018 Annual Meeting and Arts Research in the Creative Humanities Showcase Creative Humanities Matters provides a lively forum for the presentation and discussion of…
FAKE NEWS /REAL THEORY WED 12 DEC 2018 “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” – Gramsci The ANU contemporary critical theory group is hosting a one-day seminar exploring law, art, politics, and society…
There’s many a slip twist the tongue and the lip CENTRE FOR LAW, ARTS & HUMANITIES & CENTRE FOR ARAB & ISLAMIC STUDIES australian National University 21 & 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 | sir roland wilson building | anu Registration now open. The ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, in collaboration with the ANU Centre…
A new short-form book series from Glasshouse CALL FOR PROPOSALS NEW TRAJECTORIES IN LAW Edited by Adam Gearey (Birkbeck) and Colin Perrin (Routledge) This series of short-form books intends to define a new direction in legal studies. Challenging the assumption that legal education is just about training students for commercial careers, the series aims to…
Presented by the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Liquid Architecture and Melbourne Law School Tuesday 24 July – Sunday 28 October 2018 https://eavesdropping.exposed/ EAVESDROPPING used to be a crime. According to Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769): ‘eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of…
CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO EDIT SPECIAL ISSUE Volume 46.1, June 2020 Due: November 30, 2018 The Australian Feminist Law Journal calls for submissions for the positions of Special Editor(s) of a Special Themed Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 46.1 (June 2020). Special Editors work in conjunction with the Editorial Board to create a theme,…
Australian film and television occupies a special place in global cinema. Australian lenses have captured a nation and a culture seemingly fixated on issues of (out)law and (in)justice, producing films and television of striking landscapes peopled by bushrangers, battlers and bastards. From the several outlaw tales of Ned Kelly, to the fight for justice by…
By Sean Mulcahy Tom Nicholson’s Towards a Monument to Batman’s Treaty was the artwork for the 2017 Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia. The installation, which comprised strewn chimney bricks surrounded by possible memorial plaques, was strangely fitting. The as-yet-unrealised nature of the work, with its strewn materials and multiple possible…
Works of art speak truths about war and conflict in a way that cannot be easily articulated by disciplines such as law or political science. As a result, scholars in these disciplines are increasingly paying attention to art made during conflict as well as the ‘work’ which art does in its aftermath. There is a…
By Justine Poon The basement level of my home institution’s main library was flooded recently, resulting in the loss, I’m told, of 400,000 books including the vast majority of the philosophy books. I felt a form of grief at this event – that possible conversations had become impossible and certain ways of being and relating…
CALL FOR PROPOSALS LAW TEXT CULTURE Vol 23 (2019) Due 30 May 2018 The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2019 special edition of the Journal (Volume 23), due for publication in December 2019. Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and…
Works of art speak truths about war and conflict in a way that cannot be easily articulated by disciplines such as law or political science. As a result, scholars in these disciplines are increasingly paying attention to art made during conflict as well as the ‘work’ which art does in its aftermath. There is a…
By Rachel Bolton, PhD Candidate: UTS Law Marianne Constable, Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley, gave a keynote lecture at the 2017 Conference of the Law Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia held in Melbourne 12-14 December. Titled “Subversive Legacies: Law, Literature and Repetition”, Constable’s keynote aimed to bring attention to the work of repetition. Her…
Dissent and disposition are both relational. To dissent is to disagree and be at variance: to refuse an established order, to diverge from orthodoxy, to oppose, critique, quarrel and rearrange. If political dissent is commonly understood as speaking truth to power, how does this occur, or occur differently, now that power is increasingly dislocated from…
The updated programme for this year’s conference Dissent and Dispositions is now available to download. See the abstracts here and the conference booklet here. Please note that the first day of the conference will take place at La Trobe University City Campus on 360 Collins street (entry easiest from Little Collins), and days two and…
The inaugural postgraduate research ILS conference aims to provide a forum towards the critical exploration of interdisciplinary research/studies in and of law, as well as the development of an informal research network between cognate PhD students and schools (Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Network – ILS). Guest scholars/facilitators include: Prof. Diamond Ashiagbor Institute of Advanced Legal Studies…
Applications are now open for fully funded studentships at The Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). The Faculty is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 law schools worldwide. Each year 10-12 students are admitted to PhD, SJD and MPhil programmes. Supervision is available in most areas of private, public,…
Feminists at Law: Revisiting Identity is a two-day symposium hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. The symposium follows two previous events at the University of Melbourne Law School (2016) and ANU College of Law (2015). In 2017, the theme of ‘Revisiting Identity’ has been chosen to provide an opportunity to engage…
The Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia calls for nominations for the third 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 research, teaching and academic life. She helped convene the first…
The deadline for abstract submissions for this year’s Conference has just been extended to 19 August 2017. Please submit proposals for papers and panels to llhaaconference@gmail.com. Proposals should consist of a short abstract (max. 250 words), a short author bio and where relevant, noting your interest in a particular stream. Registration from 1 June 2017.…
Melbourne Law School and Liquid Architecture present a series of performances, presentations and experiments conducted in Court 8A at the Federal Court Building, Melbourne. SAT 15 Jul 2017 3PM – 5PM Court 8A, Federal Court Building, Melbourne 305 William St, Melbourne Wheelchair Accessible RSVP essential Curated by James Parker and Joel Stern. There is a reason…
A few details have now been finalised in relation to the annual conference to be held between La Trobe and Melbourne Law Schools in December: Registrations are now open. To register, click here. The Conference dinner will be held on Wednesday 13th December at Charcoal Lane Restaurant. I you are looking for accommodation during the…
The Association is pleased to announce the provision of a four (4) bursaries each values at $250AUD to assist PhD and Research Masters candidates to attend ‘Dissents and Dispositions’ Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia 11 – 14 December 2017. APPLICATION Applications for Bursaries close 5:00pm 25 August 2017. Bursaries will…
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, is offering a four year scholarship to work in the Law School on a PhD project entitled ‘Security, Precarious Populations, and the Neoliberal Age’. The package includes full tuition, a stipend of $40,000 AUD p.a., plus a travel and development support package of up to $10,000 AUD p.a. The description of the project is as…
“Law as Culture” Fellowship at the Kate Hamburger for Advanced Study in the Humanities just announced, with a special interest in law and economy. Applications close: Thursday 31 August 2017 While the relationship between law and politics was the focus in the project’s first stage, the Centre will examine the connection between law and economy…
There are two postdoctoral fellowship opportunities currently available at Melbourne Law School: the University of Melbourne’s McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Melbourne Law School Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowships are open to recently graduated PhD students of any nationality. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD from 1 January 2015. Please note that the Melbourne Law…
Honours students at the Griffith Law School have the opportunity to complete a designated Cultural Legal Studies elective that introduces students to the theories and methods of law and humanities scholarship. As part of the course, students engage in an intertextual analysis of law and a text of their choosing, including novels, poems, films, television shows, music videos, and graphic novels,…
Dissents and Dispositions Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia City of Melbourne: La Trobe Law School and Melbourne Law School 12-14 December 2017 (Postgraduate Day on 11 December 2017) Keynote Speakers: Tony Birch (Victoria), Marianne Constable (UC Berkeley), Karen Crawley (Griffith), Suzanne Ost (Lancaster), Nikos Papastergiadis (Melbourne) Tom Nicholson, ‘Towards a…
Applications are due very soon for the early career workshop with Professor Peter Fitzpatrick, Anniversary Professor of Law (Birkbeck, University of London) hosted by The Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. This workshop will precede a one day conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Mythology of Modern Law,…
The seventh International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law will be held from August 6 to 13, 2017 at Osnabrück University, Germany. It aims to encourage and further promote the interdisciplinary study and research of the interrelations between law and culture, based on the idea that the extended cultural study of…
Dissents and Dispositions Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia City of Melbourne: La Trobe Law School and Melbourne Law School 12-14 December 2017 (Postgraduate Day on 11 December 2017) Tom Nicholson, “Towards a Monument to Batman’s Treaty” (2013) 101 A0 printed sheets, pasted to the wall of the museum, and 3,520…
Kent Summer School in Critical Theory, Paris 26 June to 7 July Kent Law School announces its annual Kent Summer School in Critical Theory (KSSCT), running again this year in Paris, from 26 June to 7 July. The KSSCT offers the opportunity to attend a single two-week intensive seminar with a leading critical thinker. This…
Law Text Culture is seeking proposals from potential guest editors to edit Volume 22 of the journal, to be published in 2018. Details about the application process can be found on the journal site, along with information for guest editors. Â Â Â Information about the journal and its scope and purpose can be found here, along with…
The 2016 edition of Law Text Culture, ‘Lives Lived with Law’, edited by Ann Genovese, Shaun McVeigh, and Peter D. Rush of the University of Melbourne Law School has just been published.  The collection includes articles and essays by John Docker (UWA), Ann Genovese, Kim Rubenstein (Law, ANU), Marett Leiboff (Legal Intersections Research Centre,…
John Jay College of Criminal Justice is pleased to announce its Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference. The conference, themed “Visualizing Justice,” will be held in New York City from October 27 – 28, 2017. This conference aims to promote interdisciplinary and critical understanding while providing a venue for intellectual exchange. The keynote speaker will…
Volume 43.2, December 2017 Deadline of May 30th, 2017 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 43.2 (December 2017). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As an international Critical Legal Journal we…
In the opening sentence of Peter Fitzpatrick’s seminal book, The Mythology of Modern Law, first published in 1992, the claim that “law as a unified entity can only be reconciled with its contradictory existences if we see it as myth†is described as the first chapter’s “suspiciously simple argumentâ€. Few perhaps would regard even that…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2017 – Extended until 24th February! The Legal Intersections Research Centre at the University of Wollongong invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit LIRC for a minimum period of two weeks in 2017. The Visiting PhD Scholar Program aims to support high quality interdisciplinary PhD research in LIRC’s…
Edited by Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, Italy and Marett Leiboff, University of Wollongong, Australia The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its subversion, of the politically correct and of the various…
Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal Call for Papers: Special Issue Vol 44.1 June 2018 Gender, War and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the 21st Century Special Issue Editors: Emily Jones, Sara Kendall and Yoriko Otomo While feminist approaches to international law are flourishing, and while the international community has taken up…
Ten years ago, the so-called ‘Invisible Committee’ urged that ‘It is useless to wait…. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.’ Over a decade before, Leonard Cohen had…
The Kent Law School invites applications to its LLM pathway in Law and the Humanities. Applications are currently welcomed for the September 2017. This one-year program is designed to develop a robust knowledge of a critical, humanities-based approach to law and legal study. The program is designed for students who wish to confront the challenges…
The School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, comprises nine specialist research institutes – including the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). SAS is able to support a small number of Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships – three-year postdoctoral fellowships from the academic year 2017-18. We welcome expressions of interest from candidates wishing to conduct research in…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2017 The Legal Intersections Research Centre at the University of Wollongong invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit LIRC for a minimum period of two weeks in 2017. The Visiting PhD Scholar Program aims to support high quality interdisciplinary PhD research in LIRC’s areas of research, to provide…
We are pleased to announce that the LLHAA’s Annual Conference for 2017 will be co-organised by La Trobe University and Melbourne Law Schools and hosted in the City of Melbourne. The organisers invite consideration of the character, craft and arrangements of relations between laws and the humanities in times of revolution, transformation and resistance…. Papers…
Olivia Barr, ‘A Jurisprudential Tale of a Road, an Office and a Triangle’ (2015) 27:2 Law and Literature 199. Katherine Biber, ‘”Peeping: Open justice and law’s voyeurs”‘ in Sharp, C. & Leiboff, M. (eds), Cultural Legal Studies: Law’s Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law, Routledge, 2016, pp. 160-182. Karen Crawley, ‘The Critical Force of Irony:…
Marco Wan, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2016) How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which…
Hosted by the Cardozo Law School in collaboration with the Roma Tre- Law School May 25-28 2017 International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law CALL FOR PAPERS Singularity, Generality and Exemplarity in Legal Discourse The use and practice of exemplarity are rooted in classic rhetoric, literature, politics and law. Because of the shift from pre-modern…
law&history is the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society. The journal, now in its third edition, publishes original high quality research on law and history in the Australasian-Pacific region and also welcomes articles on any other area and period. The journal is double-blind peer reviewed and ERA listed. Edited…
Deadline of December 15th 2016 The Australian Feminist Law Journal calls for Proposals for the positions of Special Editor(s) of a Special Themed Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 44.1 (June 2018). Special Editors work in conjunction with the Editorial Board to create a theme, solicit articles, organize the referee process, make publication decisions and…
The law and technology project is one of the foundational flagship commitments of the Law Futures Centre. The project aims to explore the challenges of technological change on culture, law and public institutions. The project is aligned with the Centre’s law, risk and innovation programme and encompasses Centre members’ research into autonomy, artificial intelligence, digital…
The ninth Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory This year the forum is particularly concerned with questions of method: How do we reckon with law? Reckoning holds this tension – how can we meet our scholarly responsibilities in the present and live the outcomes as our institutional lives? In actuarial disciplines, reckoning is about calculating…
Keynotes Louise Amoore (Durham, UK) Chiara Bottici (New School, NYC) Davide Panagia (UCLA) Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) Convenors Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy) Desmond Manderson (CASS/Law) Forms of authority inhabit aesthetic events and practices, and equally suffuse political and social discourse. The intersection of these modalities is attracting unprecedented attention amongst contemporary political and critical theorists.…
Thursday, 3 November 2016 – 9:00am – Friday, 4 November 2016 – 4:00pm ANU College of Law welcomes applications to the first Challenging Words workshop to be held in Canberra on 3-4 November 2016. It may change how you approach the law forever. Engage your thinking about—and experiencing—the law in a wholly new and…
This transdisciplinary symposium explores how ethics can figure eminently in the generation of art and images after modernism and postmodernism, starting from the premise that in the Anthropocene, the work cannot rest upon its separation from the world. The symposium asks what ethics are at play in the relations between the human artist, the art, and the human…
What does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to see? What can and cannot, should and should not, be visible? What are the limits of legal sight, and what lies beyond? What can academic and critical study make visible to law? Can (in)visibility produce (in)justice? The Law and Culture Conference 2016 aims…
Daniel Hourigan’s book Law and Enjoyment: Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2015) was recently awarded third prize in the internal University of Southern Queensland’s Publication Excellence Awards for Authored Books. The award showcases research and esteemed publication, and rewards the improvement of USQ’s research performance. Law and Enjoyment was also a finalist for the Association’s…
Editors: Simone Gustafsson, Rebecca Hill & Helen Ngo In this special issue of AFLJ (Vol 43.1, June 2017), we will present a collection of articles addressing the conceptualisation of difference. The articles will take divergent approaches to thinking difference. For example, through a reading of Francis Ponge and Jacques Derrida, one contributor will propose an…
The LLHAA has awarded the 2015 Penny Pether Prize to Alison Young for her book Street Art, Public City. Street Art, Public City is the culmination of ten years’ work by an accomplished interdisciplinary scholar, and displays everywhere the elegance, the authority, and the intellectual agility earned over time. It casts street art at the…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of three RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what James Stewart (Adelaide Law School) had to say: Within my broader research area of Critical Legal Studies, the…
Proposals from people interested in guest editing Volume 21 (2017) of the journal Law Text Culture are due by 30 May 2016. Potential guest editors are encouraged to liaise with the Managing Editor to discuss their proposal or ideas for a special issue of Law Text Culture. All submitted proposals will be considered by the…
KSSCT is a rare opportunity for doctoral students and early career researchers to work intensively with a leading critical scholar in their field. Applicants are welcomed from all critical disciplinary perspective. In 2016 the school will take the form of three parallel intensive 2-week seminars: Professor Samantha Frost (“Matters of perception: objects and materialities of affect);…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of two RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what Ashley Pearson (Griffith Law School) had to say: There is no forum that could have better served…
ÂÂÂCall for Papers LASSnet Conference 2016, Fourth Edition Dates: 10-12 December 2016 Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India The fourth edition of the LASSnet conference will be hosted by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (JNU, Delhi) in collaboration with the National Law University of Delhi (Dwarka), O.P. Jindal Global University (Sonepat)…
SPECTACULAR LAW Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 2016 The Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, 8-10 December 2016 Preceded by a half-day Graduate Research Student Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS The LLH Association of Australasia invites researchers working at the intersection of law and the humanities to Hong Kong in…
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR GENERAL ISSUE Volume 42.2, December 2016 Deadline of May 30th, 2016 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 42.2 (December 2016). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As…
No Foundations is an international peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing interdisciplinary legal scholarship of the highest quality at the interface between law and justice. We encourage contributions from all areas of law and beyond, with the aim of bridging the gap once opened between law and other social and human activities and experiences. On the…
Divided Authorities and Dispossessed Peoples: Aesthetic Dimensions of Political and Critical Theory in the 21st Century 20-22 July 2016, Humanities Research Centre Australian National University Invited Keynotes: Louise Amoore (Durham, UK), Chiara Bottici (New School NYC), Davide Panagia (UCLA), Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) Forms of authority inhabit aesthetic events and practices, and equally suffuse…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of two RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what Ben Eldridge (University of Sydney) had to say: The death of rigor in general public discourse should…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of two RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what Laura Petersen (MLS) had to say: As part of my PhD research, I have been trying to…
The Kent Summer School in Critical Theory is running for the second time this year, in Paris, 13-24 June 2016. The website has just gone live: http://kssct.org/ This summer school for early career researchers and doctoral students aims to create a unique pedagogical experience, enabling leading critical thinkers to conduct an intensive 2-week seminar with members…
Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, December 8-10, 2016 with a half-day Postgraduate Research Student Workshop on Dec 8 The LLH Association of Australasia invites researchers working at the intersection of law and the humanities to explore the complex relations between law, theory, culture, text and visuality. This conference calls on participants to re-affirm…
Kent Law School 1st – 3rd September The Call for Stream Proposals is OPEN NOW – please send proposals of no more than 500 words along with short bios of the stream organisers to klsclc2016@kent.ac.uk. The Call for Stream Proposals closes 7 March 2016. “…there are no witnesses to changes of epoch. The epochal turning is an imperceptible…
The Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence Katherine Biber Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney This lecture examines the cultural afterlife of criminal evidence. It explores what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of the trial. Formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of evidence within the trial,…
The organisers of the 2015 Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory are pleased to announce plans for the 8th annual Forum, to be held 7th and 8th December 2015. The Forum is a welcoming, collegial and supportive environment that aims to foster intellectual and personal relationships between researchers and to help build a community of…
A great new book on Cultural Legal Studies, edited by Cassandra Sharp and Marrett Leiboff, has just been launched. Order online here. Details below. What can law’s popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice? This collection explores such a question through the lens of the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement, which…
The Regulating Time network aims to advance interdisciplinary scholarship on the relationship between law and dominant concepts of time. The network is funded for 2 years by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and is a collaboration between the Universities of Kent and York. Please see attached our call for papers: Regulating Time: New Perspectives on Law,…
Date: 13 – 14 August 2015 Location: UNSW School of Law This symposium takes as its starting point an account of the practices of indefinite detention both before and since 9/11, focusing on the subtly but distinctively different ways in which different jurisdictions have legislated for the so-called ‘preventive’ and distinctively indefinite detention of ‘suspected…
The Association is pleased to announce the provision of a four (4) bursaries each values at $250AUD to assist PhD and Research Masters candidates to attend Complicities’, Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 9 – 12 December 2015. APPLICATION Applications for Bursaries close 5:00pm 21 August 2015. Bursaries will be awarded by the…
The responsibility of the state described by Plato, the contracts written by Shakespeare’s Shylock, or the works delving into the plight of modern laborers all explore the intersections between Literature and Law. This conference will explore the way that literary renderings of labor concerns, broadly defined, have responded to or have influenced the law. The…
The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2016 special edition of the Journal (Volume 20), due for publication in December 2016. Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges about law and jurisprudence across three interconnected axes: Politics: engaging the relationship…
The ambition of the conference is to provide a permanent platform to discuss and explore the alternative methods of legal argumentation, i.e. those that are not regularly employed in everyday legal practice, but would prove extremely valuable if adopted. It is thus our intention to bring new stimuli to both the traditional and alternative approaches…
Complicity is a state of being complex or involved, and no matter where we are, or what we do, law is part of our entanglement in the world. This conference will explore law’s complex relations with culture, politics and capital. It will investigate law as an accomplice, as well as law’s role in shaping (and…
The Griffith Law Review: Law Theory Society has a proud history of publishing innovative and engaging socio-legal, inter-disciplinary and critical legal research. Our focus is international and we engage with worldwide issues and agendas. In recognition of the Review’s standing as a leading journal, it was ranked A* by the Australian Research Council for the…
The Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?” invites applications for three Fellowships from 1 October 2015. Framework The Research Group examines the role of international law in a changing global order. Developments in recent years give rise to the question whether the move towards an international rule of law, which…
The Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC) at the University of Wollongong (UOW) invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit LIRC during 2015 for a minimum period of 2 weeks. LIRC engages in interdisciplinary scholarship across law, society and culture with a focus on public interest law and social justice. LIRC academic…
29 June – 10 July 2015 Paris Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the new Kent Summer School in Critical Theory, which will run for the first time in Paris next July. Our website has just gone live, and we invite you pay us a visit: www.kssct.org. This new summer school for early career researchers and doctoral students…
7 – 11 July University of Wollongong The inaugural Australian Literary Studies Convention will be held at the University of Wollongong in July 2015. This is a landmark literary studies event that is being organised under the auspices of the Australasian Association for Literature (AAL), Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and Australasian…
Here’s a sample of the publications generated by the LLHAA community this year: Cassandra Sharp, “Justice with a Vengeance: Retributive Desire in Popular Imagination” in M. Asimow & K. Brown eds, Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives (2014) 153-176. The punishment of criminal behaviour has always been a hot topic in popular culture. Whether in…
Cassandra Sharp and Marett Leiboff, eds. Cultural Legal Studies: Law’s Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law June 2015 What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement takes up this question as it presents a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law…
The Griffith Law Review is seeking submissions for 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 legal scholarship. Contributions…
Announcing a new Law & Humanities fellowship opportunity at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. The fellowship was created in honor of Prof. Willem Witteveen, who was a long standing professor in jurisprudence as well as a senator for the Labour Party in the Netherlands. Along with his wife and daughter, Willem was killed in the…
6-8 May 2014, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany www.lawspluralities.wordpress.com Conference Announcement & Call for Papers Plenary — Susanne Baer, Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, Professur für Öffentliches Recht und Geschlechterstudien an der Juristischen Fakultät und dem Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Mitträgerin des vom Berliner Forschungsverbund Recht im Kontext initiierten Projekts “Rechtskulturen:…
Registrations are now open for the one-day Colloquium on Law and Love. This workshop aims to explore the intersection of the ideal of love in our social imaginary and the rule of law in our political imaginary. 5 December 2014 The Australian National University (Building and Room TBC) Full Registration $60 Concession $50 Further information,…
Dear Colleagues, We are writing to invite you to join a virtual network of scholars and practitioners interested in the production, management and consumption of judicial images. This is an initiative supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The aim of the project is to promote dialogue, understanding, future research and collaboration amongst…
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, and Georgetown University Law School invite submissions for the eleventh meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia Law School Law in New York City on June 8 & 9, 2015.…
Monday 1st December – Tuesday 2nd December 2014 Call for Papers Melbourne Law School will host the seventh annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory on 1–2 December 2014. The Forum brings together research students from all academic disciplines to engage with social, political, theoretical, and methodological issues raised by law and legal theory.  The workshop is…
Robyn Wiegman Annamarie Jagose Thursday 16th to Friday 17th October, 2014 Conference Room, Level 1 A D Hope Bldg (14), ANU Gender Institute & SLLL, ANU ‘The rejection of essentialism,’ David Halperin writes in How to be Gay (2012), ‘did not prevent the original founders of queer theory from asking “What do Queers want?â€â€™. In…
Volume 41.1, June 2015 Deadline of September 30th, 2014 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 41.1 (June 2015). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As an international Critical Legal Journal we…
Dates: 9-12 December 2015 – with 9 December as postgraduate day University of Technology Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia “Complicity” Complicity is a state of being complex or involved, and no matter where we are, or what we do, law is part of our entanglement in the world. This conference will explore the complexity of…
Deadline 1 August 2014 The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2015 special edition of the Journal (Volume 19), due for publication in December 2015. Law Text Culture is an interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges along three axes of inquiry: Politics: engaging the relationship of…
Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC), University of Wollongong Date: Friday 4 July 2014 Time: 9am-5pm Location: 67.202 – Moot Court Register: Online by 27 June. Registration is free. Places are limited. Following Alice, who contemplates, and then explores, the world on the other side of the looking glass, this symposium calls upon participants to reflect…
Humanities Research Centre Australian National University 7-8 July 2014 This remarkable two day event brings together outstanding new research and an exceptional international line-up. Scholars and higher degree research students with research interests in law and the humanities, representation, law and culture, and visual theory will not want to miss this event. It indicates new…
Professor Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University, Boston Wednesday 9th July 2014Â Â 6-7pm Griffith Film School, South Bank Campus Since photographs and film were available to everyday people they have been part of the legal system and its factual evaluations with the goal of justice. Not without controversy, photographs and film have been used to prove the…
University of Technology, Sydney The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and the Faculty of Law 3 – 4 September 2014 Architectural scholars have long argued that the sensory bias of architecture towards sight is problematic, reducing habitable space and architectural form to mere images disengaged from a richer experience of space. Socio-legal and critical…
St Mary’s University Twickenham, London Law both regulates cultural representations and creates them. These dual themes will be explored in a conference focused upon the twin strands of law and visual culture, and law and gender. How does law regulate gender; how does it regulate images? What is/are the relationship/s between visual culture and the…
QUT Law Review invites articles for its forthcoming Special Edition relating to legal and social aspects of G20 and the role of protest in modern democracies. The special issue will include material from a public forum on G20 issues conducted in collaboration between QUT and Caxton Legal Centre Inc., to be held in the Banco…
Humanities Research Centre @ The Australian National University presents: Law and Love – a one-day colloquium 5 December 2014 Further details TBC In our social imaginary, love has become the major existential goal of our times, which is capable of providing all of us with a sense of worth and a way of being in…
Deadline to submit papers:  31 AUGUST 2014  Papers should not exceed 10,000 words (references included) Instructions for authors are available at: http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196  Only papers submitted online will be evaluated: Submit online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/sela/ Papers submitted to the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law should evaluate how legal meanings are produced, distributed and construed. Legal culture is being…
May 19th and 20th, 2014 Call for Abstracts Law and Boundaries is an interdisciplinary yearly conference that aims to discuss and propose new perspectives on the challenges the legal discipline is facing regarding its object, its function, its theoretical foundations and its practical outcomes. We expect scholars from all disciplines to submit their abstracts (250-300…
4-6 September 2014 University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Call for Papers Conference Theme: By ‘Power, Capital, Chaos’, we refer to a context of ongoing global economic crisis, the neo-liberal destruction of social democracy and the ever-widening entrenchment of inequalities of wealth, power and technology within and between a global ‘North’ and global ‘South’. A contemporary…
The World Indigenous Legal Conference 2014 will be hosted by the Indigenous Lawyers Association of Queensland, from 23-27 June 2014, at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. The theme of the conference is “Past, Present and Futureâ€. The conference will incorporate the 9th National Indigenous Legal Conference 2014. Held biennially, the World Indigenous Legal…
THE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST AND BEST-KNOWN RESEARCH CENTRES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES. AS PART OF ITS 2014 ANNUAL THEME, NOW SHOWING: CULTURES, JUDGEMENTS, AND RESEARCH ON THE DIGITAL SCREEN, WE ARE CALLING FOR PAPERS ON THEMES OF VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF LAW IN HISTORY AND THE…
LUCAS (the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) will host a three-day conference Legal Bodies: Corpus / Persona / Communitas on the various ways in which literary texts and art works have represented, interrogated or challenged juridical notions of ‘personhood’.  The guiding assumption behind this conference is that ‘personhood’ is not a (biologically)…
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…
Shaun McVeigh There is a lot to think with in Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law. On its surface it is a study of the ‘modernist’ moment of legal theory: it re-casts the canon and style of investigating legal and literary theory in order to address the modernist understanding of the nature of modernity,…
Shaun McVeigh Too little work in the field of law literature and humanities scholarship in Australasia is subject to review. So let me begin with a brief notice of Bill (William P) MacNeil’s Novel Judgements: Legal Theory as Fiction (2012). This book was published last year but it has not yet received anything like the…
Law Text Culture – Volume 16, Issue 1 (2012) Guest Editors: Luis Gomez Romero and Ian Dahlman Justice Framed is born of the passionate and rich – though not always peaceful or courteous – nexus between two long-time companions: comics and law. Comics are utterly gripped by issues of legality, order and justice, but their…
Australian Feminist Law Journal – Special Issue (2012) Volume 36 Special Issue Editor: Marett Leiboff The first tentative steps inaugurating the Law Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia took place at the final (as it later turned out) Law and Literature conference, Trans(l)egalite, held at Griffith Law School in 2009. This was a fin de…
CALL FOR PAPERS Interpellations Annual Conference of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia 5 – 8 December 2013 The Australian National University Canberra, Australia Confirmed keynote speakers: ➢   Professor WJT Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago ➢   Dr Honni van Rijswijk, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty…
Where: Avid Reader – In Store Event, 193 Boundary St, West End, Brisbane, Queensland 4101 (AU). Date: Wednesday, 12, December, 2012 Time: 6:00:pm –  8:00:pm Join Griffith University’s Dr Chris Butler as Dan O’Neill launches Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City  The work of the philosopher Henri Lefebvre…
The 2011 conference of the Association was held on 7-9 December at the University of Wollongong in conjunction with the Law & Society Association of Australia & New Zealand Inc. Fore more information see the conference website: http://www.uow.edu.au/law/LIRC/conference2011/index.html
The Canadian Network of Law and Humanities (CNLH) brings together a community of scholars interested in the cultural, imaginative and embodied aspects of law. The website for CNLH is up and running at: https://cnlh.ubc.ca/ The site includes a list of members, institutional partners, teaching resources such as course syllabi, a…
Edited by Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis, this collection comes out later in June. Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a…
Critical Legal Conference 2021 – University of Dundee – 2-4 September 2021 The Agency of the Artist-scholar We invite presentations that explore the figure of the artist-scholar. The agency of the artist-scholar is almost always post-contemporary. It engages with arts and literature (sensorial and textual knowledge) across time-senses. When it…
The School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a prospective PhD candidate. A scholarship is available for applications related to the ARC-funded project “New Approaches to Corporate Legality: Beyond Neoliberal Governance”. If you are interested, applications are due by…
The Australian Feminist Law Journal wishes to appoint a new editorial team to take over the leadership of the journal from the current board. Launched over 25 years ago, the Australian Feminist Law Journal was created to focus on research that uses critical feminist approaches to law and justice. We…
Just in time the holidays, Professor Desmond Manderson’s award winning text Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts has arrived in paperback. Winning the 2019 Penny Pether Prize for Law and the Humanities and sharing the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards’ Book Award, this interdisciplinary work makes an…
Congratulations to Professor Katherine Biber and Professor Desmond Manderson, longstanding members of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia, for co-winning the inaugural Australian Legal Research Awards book prize. The prizes were announced on the 17th November 2020. Professor Katherine Biber (UTS, Sydney) for her book In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 47(2), 2021 Special Issue Editors: Miriam Bak McKenna and Maj Grasten A core concern of critical feminist legal studies is the gendered nature of the language of law. Language conducts and projects power and struggles. Its usage is both…
The Graphic Justice Research Alliance (GJRA) is delighted to announce a call for papers for its 2020 annual conference to be hosted by Middlesex University London. The conference will be held online on Tuesday 8 December 2020. It promises to be an exciting event; accessible and relevant to scholars, artists,…
Please access and register for the presentations by clicking here Surveillance is central to the functioning of 21st century capitalism and modern social welfare. It has often been displayed as necessarily intrusive and threatening. The present initiative builds on the suggestions that an articulate discussion about humanities could be fruitful in producing…
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00 pm (Australian Eastern Time) from September 4th 2020 Please register for the series here Metaphors are indispensable tools for making sense of reality, including the ongoing reality of systemic colonial relations—or to obfuscate it (to deflect the need to enact substantive decolonisation agendas, for example). In…
where are you today is a new work by Manus Recording Project Collective, continuing the collective’s practice of documenting, sharing and circulating audio recordings from inside Australia’s on- and off-shore detention centres for refugees and asylum seekers. where are you today will comprise a new set of ten-minute audio recordings, produced and…
Special Issue of Law & Critique(Issue 3 of Volume 32, to be published November 2021) On behalf of the Editorial Committee of Law & Critique, Special Issue Editors Dr Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Dr Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria, Canada) invite expressions of interest from…
We get the metaphors we deserve. Metaphors are indispensable tools for making sense of reality, including the ongoing reality of systemic colonial relations—or to obfuscate it (to deflect the need to enact substantive decolonisation agendas, for example). In times of crisis they perform a crucial role in translating and interpreting…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 47.1, June 2021 Special Issue Editors: Dr Gina Heathcote, Dr Paola Zichi, Alice Finden This special issue will bring together research addressing hygiene, coloniality and law, and their instrumentalisation as regulatory tools of governance. Discursive understandings of morality…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 46.2 December 2020 Special Issue Editor: Nan Seuffert Recent years have witnessed a global explosion of discourse around sexuality focusing on debate over the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate sex under the banner of the #metoo campaign. In…
Cultural legal studies is a burgeoning field, encountering law and justice in relation to a wide variety of cultural and artistic forms. It engages not merely representations of law and justice, but the role that culture plays in constituting the very possibility of legality. The aim of this Handbook is…
I lived principally in the country as a girl, and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque parts; but my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them;…
Law, Technology and Humans is an innovative open access journal that encourages research and scholarship on the human and humanity of law and technology. It is sponsored by the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and is advised by a leading International Editorial Board. Read more about the…
The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) is a young, regional university with a rapidly growing Higher Degree by Research (HDR) student cohort. Our cohort has developed at an accelerated rate in an environment with an ever-developing research capacity and increased regulatory and budgetary pressures. For universities, the creation of…
21st Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRLS) and 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics) The Institute of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University together with Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, will hold an international conference devoted…
Dale Mitchell, Dr Ashley Pearson & Dr Timothy D Peters CALL FOR PAPERS Law is the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game. Through law, individuals are characterised, subject-object relations are constructed and enforced, and concepts of worth and identity are founded. Playing Law seeks to showcase the power of play and the…
AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST LAW JOURNAL A Critical Legal Journal CALL FOR PAPERS FOR GENERAL ISSUE Volume 46.1, June 2020 Deadline EXTENDED – 30 November 2019 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 46.1 (June 2020). The journal focuses…
Paul Barclay (ABC RN Big Ideas) in conversation with Prof Desmond Manderson (Australian National University), Prof Hilary Charlesworth (University of Melbourne), and Dr Julie Gough (Artist, Writer, Curator)Friday 20 September 2019 – 5:30 to 7:00 pmMelbourne Law School, Room 920 Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities…
Special Issue Volume 24 (2020) “The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound” Guest Editors: Mehera San Roque (University of New South Wales Law) Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Canada) James Parker (Melbourne Law School) While the “visual turn” in socio-legal scholarship has generated a rich picture of…
The ANU Centre for Law, Art and the Humanities presents Visions Not So Splendid: Art, Law, Justice on Thursday 22 August, 12:00-4:30PM at the Sir Ronald Wilson Building Lecture Theatre, Australian National University. The event features a number of presentations from domestic and international academics working at the intersections of…
Professor Desmond Manderson, Australian National University, presents another contribution to interdisciplinary legal scholarship in Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts. The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning…
Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice, in partnership with the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia (LLHAA), is proud to convene and organise the 2019 LLHAA conference titled JurisApocalypse Now! Law in End Times, which will be held at Southern Cross University Gold Coast Campus on 2-4 December 2019. The…
Call for Proposals by Guest Editors Due 1 May 2019 The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2020 edition of the Journal (Volume 24), due for publication in December 2020. Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges about…
Kent Law School announces its annual Kent Summer School in Critical Theory (KSSCT), running again this year in Paris, from 1 to 12 July. The KSSCT offers early career and doctoral researchers from all disciplines the opportunity to participate in a single two-week intensive seminar with a leading critical thinker.…
“I’m a bit worried about something, and I need your advice.” My good friend, Ariana*, had submitted papers to two international conferences. Each of these conferences promised opportunities to engage with experts in her field, comprehensive peer-review processes for all paper submissions, and were to be hosted in two world…
Drawing on jurisprudential, theological, and philosophical sources, this project explores the relationship between law and love. In particular, it seeks to understand how the category of love can inform our understanding of the meaning, foundation, and ends of law. Other recent projects have explored the relationship between law and love,…
Artwork by Vendela Apro-Wellman The Arts Research in the Creative Humanities Research Cluster at USC is hosting: The Creative Humanities Matters Colloquium, 19-21st November 2018 Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres 2018 Annual Meeting and Arts Research in the Creative Humanities Showcase Creative Humanities Matters provides a lively forum for…
FAKE NEWS /REAL THEORY WED 12 DEC 2018 “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” – Gramsci The ANU contemporary critical theory group is hosting a one-day seminar exploring…
There’s many a slip twist the tongue and the lip CENTRE FOR LAW, ARTS & HUMANITIES & CENTRE FOR ARAB & ISLAMIC STUDIES australian National University 21 & 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 | sir roland wilson building | anu Registration now open. The ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, in…
A new short-form book series from Glasshouse CALL FOR PROPOSALS NEW TRAJECTORIES IN LAW Edited by Adam Gearey (Birkbeck) and Colin Perrin (Routledge) This series of short-form books intends to define a new direction in legal studies. Challenging the assumption that legal education is just about training students for commercial…
Presented by the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Liquid Architecture and Melbourne Law School Tuesday 24 July – Sunday 28 October 2018 https://eavesdropping.exposed/ EAVESDROPPING used to be a crime. According to Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769): ‘eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or…
CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO EDIT SPECIAL ISSUE Volume 46.1, June 2020 Due: November 30, 2018 The Australian Feminist Law Journal calls for submissions for the positions of Special Editor(s) of a Special Themed Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 46.1 (June 2020). Special Editors work in conjunction with the Editorial…
Australian film and television occupies a special place in global cinema. Australian lenses have captured a nation and a culture seemingly fixated on issues of (out)law and (in)justice, producing films and television of striking landscapes peopled by bushrangers, battlers and bastards. From the several outlaw tales of Ned Kelly, to…
By Sean Mulcahy Tom Nicholson’s Towards a Monument to Batman’s Treaty was the artwork for the 2017 Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia. The installation, which comprised strewn chimney bricks surrounded by possible memorial plaques, was strangely fitting. The as-yet-unrealised nature of the work, with its…
Works of art speak truths about war and conflict in a way that cannot be easily articulated by disciplines such as law or political science. As a result, scholars in these disciplines are increasingly paying attention to art made during conflict as well as the ‘work’ which art does in…
By Justine Poon The basement level of my home institution’s main library was flooded recently, resulting in the loss, I’m told, of 400,000 books including the vast majority of the philosophy books. I felt a form of grief at this event – that possible conversations had become impossible and certain…
CALL FOR PROPOSALS LAW TEXT CULTURE Vol 23 (2019) Due 30 May 2018 The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2019 special edition of the Journal (Volume 23), due for publication in December 2019. Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims…
Works of art speak truths about war and conflict in a way that cannot be easily articulated by disciplines such as law or political science. As a result, scholars in these disciplines are increasingly paying attention to art made during conflict as well as the ‘work’ which art does in…
By Rachel Bolton, PhD Candidate: UTS Law Marianne Constable, Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley, gave a keynote lecture at the 2017 Conference of the Law Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia held in Melbourne 12-14 December. Titled “Subversive Legacies: Law, Literature and Repetition”, Constable’s keynote aimed to bring attention to…
Dissent and disposition are both relational. To dissent is to disagree and be at variance: to refuse an established order, to diverge from orthodoxy, to oppose, critique, quarrel and rearrange. If political dissent is commonly understood as speaking truth to power, how does this occur, or occur differently, now that…
The updated programme for this year’s conference Dissent and Dispositions is now available to download. See the abstracts here and the conference booklet here. Please note that the first day of the conference will take place at La Trobe University City Campus on 360 Collins street (entry easiest from Little…
The inaugural postgraduate research ILS conference aims to provide a forum towards the critical exploration of interdisciplinary research/studies in and of law, as well as the development of an informal research network between cognate PhD students and schools (Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Network – ILS). Guest scholars/facilitators include: Prof. Diamond Ashiagbor…
Applications are now open for fully funded studentships at The Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). The Faculty is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 law schools worldwide. Each year 10-12 students are admitted to PhD, SJD and MPhil programmes. Supervision is available in…
Feminists at Law: Revisiting Identity is a two-day symposium hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. The symposium follows two previous events at the University of Melbourne Law School (2016) and ANU College of Law (2015). In 2017, the theme of ‘Revisiting Identity’ has been chosen to…
The Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia calls for nominations for the third 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 research, teaching and academic life.…
The deadline for abstract submissions for this year’s Conference has just been extended to 19 August 2017. Please submit proposals for papers and panels to llhaaconference@gmail.com. Proposals should consist of a short abstract (max. 250 words), a short author bio and where relevant, noting your interest in a particular stream.…
Melbourne Law School and Liquid Architecture present a series of performances, presentations and experiments conducted in Court 8A at the Federal Court Building, Melbourne. SAT 15 Jul 2017 3PM – 5PM Court 8A, Federal Court Building, Melbourne 305 William St, Melbourne Wheelchair Accessible RSVP essential Curated by James Parker and Joel…
A few details have now been finalised in relation to the annual conference to be held between La Trobe and Melbourne Law Schools in December: Registrations are now open. To register, click here. The Conference dinner will be held on Wednesday 13th December at Charcoal Lane Restaurant. I you are…
The Association is pleased to announce the provision of a four (4) bursaries each values at $250AUD to assist PhD and Research Masters candidates to attend ‘Dissents and Dispositions’ Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia 11 – 14 December 2017. APPLICATION Applications for Bursaries close 5:00pm…
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, is offering a four year scholarship to work in the Law School on a PhD project entitled ‘Security, Precarious Populations, and the Neoliberal Age’. The package includes full tuition, a stipend of $40,000 AUD p.a., plus a travel and development support package of up to $10,000 AUD p.a.…
“Law as Culture” Fellowship at the Kate Hamburger for Advanced Study in the Humanities just announced, with a special interest in law and economy. Applications close: Thursday 31 August 2017 While the relationship between law and politics was the focus in the project’s first stage, the Centre will examine the…
There are two postdoctoral fellowship opportunities currently available at Melbourne Law School: the University of Melbourne’s McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Melbourne Law School Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowships are open to recently graduated PhD students of any nationality. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD from 1 January 2015. Please…
Honours students at the Griffith Law School have the opportunity to complete a designated Cultural Legal Studies elective that introduces students to the theories and methods of law and humanities scholarship. As part of the course, students engage in an intertextual analysis of law and a text of their choosing, including novels, poems, films, television shows,…
Dissents and Dispositions Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia City of Melbourne: La Trobe Law School and Melbourne Law School 12-14 December 2017 (Postgraduate Day on 11 December 2017) Keynote Speakers: Tony Birch (Victoria), Marianne Constable (UC Berkeley), Karen Crawley (Griffith), Suzanne Ost (Lancaster), Nikos Papastergiadis…
Applications are due very soon for the early career workshop with Professor Peter Fitzpatrick, Anniversary Professor of Law (Birkbeck, University of London) hosted by The Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. This workshop will precede a one day conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of…
The seventh International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law will be held from August 6 to 13, 2017 at Osnabrück University, Germany. It aims to encourage and further promote the interdisciplinary study and research of the interrelations between law and culture, based on the idea that…
Dissents and Dispositions Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia City of Melbourne: La Trobe Law School and Melbourne Law School 12-14 December 2017 (Postgraduate Day on 11 December 2017) Tom Nicholson, “Towards a Monument to Batman’s Treaty” (2013) 101 A0 printed sheets, pasted to the wall…
Kent Summer School in Critical Theory, Paris 26 June to 7 July Kent Law School announces its annual Kent Summer School in Critical Theory (KSSCT), running again this year in Paris, from 26 June to 7 July. The KSSCT offers the opportunity to attend a single two-week intensive seminar with…
Law Text Culture is seeking proposals from potential guest editors to edit Volume 22 of the journal, to be published in 2018. Details about the application process can be found on the journal site, along with information for guest editors. Â Â Â Information about the journal and its scope and purpose can…
The 2016 edition of Law Text Culture, ‘Lives Lived with Law’, edited by Ann Genovese, Shaun McVeigh, and Peter D. Rush of the University of Melbourne Law School has just been published.  The collection includes articles and essays by John Docker (UWA), Ann Genovese, Kim Rubenstein (Law, ANU), Marett…
John Jay College of Criminal Justice is pleased to announce its Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference. The conference, themed “Visualizing Justice,” will be held in New York City from October 27 – 28, 2017. This conference aims to promote interdisciplinary and critical understanding while providing a venue for intellectual…
Volume 43.2, December 2017 Deadline of May 30th, 2017 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 43.2 (December 2017). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As an…
In the opening sentence of Peter Fitzpatrick’s seminal book, The Mythology of Modern Law, first published in 1992, the claim that “law as a unified entity can only be reconciled with its contradictory existences if we see it as myth†is described as the first chapter’s “suspiciously simple argumentâ€. Few…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2017 – Extended until 24th February! The Legal Intersections Research Centre at the University of Wollongong invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit LIRC for a minimum period of two weeks in 2017. The Visiting PhD Scholar Program aims to support high quality…
Edited by Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, Italy and Marett Leiboff, University of Wollongong, Australia The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its subversion, of the politically…
Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal Call for Papers: Special Issue Vol 44.1 June 2018 Gender, War and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the 21st Century Special Issue Editors: Emily Jones, Sara Kendall and Yoriko Otomo While feminist approaches to international law are flourishing, and while the…
Ten years ago, the so-called ‘Invisible Committee’ urged that ‘It is useless to wait…. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.’ Over a…
The Kent Law School invites applications to its LLM pathway in Law and the Humanities. Applications are currently welcomed for the September 2017. This one-year program is designed to develop a robust knowledge of a critical, humanities-based approach to law and legal study. The program is designed for students who…
The School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, comprises nine specialist research institutes – including the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). SAS is able to support a small number of Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships – three-year postdoctoral fellowships from the academic year 2017-18. We welcome expressions of interest from candidates…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2017 The Legal Intersections Research Centre at the University of Wollongong invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit LIRC for a minimum period of two weeks in 2017. The Visiting PhD Scholar Program aims to support high quality interdisciplinary PhD research in LIRC’s…
We are pleased to announce that the LLHAA’s Annual Conference for 2017 will be co-organised by La Trobe University and Melbourne Law Schools and hosted in the City of Melbourne. The organisers invite consideration of the character, craft and arrangements of relations between laws and the humanities in times of…
Olivia Barr, ‘A Jurisprudential Tale of a Road, an Office and a Triangle’ (2015) 27:2 Law and Literature 199. Katherine Biber, ‘”Peeping: Open justice and law’s voyeurs”‘ in Sharp, C. & Leiboff, M. (eds), Cultural Legal Studies: Law’s Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law, Routledge, 2016, pp. 160-182. Karen Crawley,…
Marco Wan, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2016) How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book…
Hosted by the Cardozo Law School in collaboration with the Roma Tre- Law School May 25-28 2017 International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law CALL FOR PAPERS Singularity, Generality and Exemplarity in Legal Discourse The use and practice of exemplarity are rooted in classic rhetoric, literature, politics and law. Because…
law&history is the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society. The journal, now in its third edition, publishes original high quality research on law and history in the Australasian-Pacific region and also welcomes articles on any other area and period. The journal is double-blind peer…
Deadline of December 15th 2016 The Australian Feminist Law Journal calls for Proposals for the positions of Special Editor(s) of a Special Themed Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 44.1 (June 2018). Special Editors work in conjunction with the Editorial Board to create a theme, solicit articles, organize the referee…
The law and technology project is one of the foundational flagship commitments of the Law Futures Centre. The project aims to explore the challenges of technological change on culture, law and public institutions. The project is aligned with the Centre’s law, risk and innovation programme and encompasses Centre members’ research…
The ninth Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory This year the forum is particularly concerned with questions of method: How do we reckon with law? Reckoning holds this tension – how can we meet our scholarly responsibilities in the present and live the outcomes as our institutional lives? In actuarial…
Keynotes Louise Amoore (Durham, UK) Chiara Bottici (New School, NYC) Davide Panagia (UCLA) Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) Convenors Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy) Desmond Manderson (CASS/Law) Forms of authority inhabit aesthetic events and practices, and equally suffuse political and social discourse. The intersection of these modalities is attracting unprecedented attention amongst…
Thursday, 3 November 2016 – 9:00am – Friday, 4 November 2016 – 4:00pm ANU College of Law welcomes applications to the first Challenging Words workshop to be held in Canberra on 3-4 November 2016. It may change how you approach the law forever. Engage your thinking about—and experiencing—the law…
This transdisciplinary symposium explores how ethics can figure eminently in the generation of art and images after modernism and postmodernism, starting from the premise that in the Anthropocene, the work cannot rest upon its separation from the world. The symposium asks what ethics are at play in the relations between the human artist,…
What does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to see? What can and cannot, should and should not, be visible? What are the limits of legal sight, and what lies beyond? What can academic and critical study make visible to law? Can (in)visibility produce (in)justice? The Law…
Daniel Hourigan’s book Law and Enjoyment: Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2015) was recently awarded third prize in the internal University of Southern Queensland’s Publication Excellence Awards for Authored Books. The award showcases research and esteemed publication, and rewards the improvement of USQ’s research performance. Law and Enjoyment was also…
Editors: Simone Gustafsson, Rebecca Hill & Helen Ngo In this special issue of AFLJ (Vol 43.1, June 2017), we will present a collection of articles addressing the conceptualisation of difference. The articles will take divergent approaches to thinking difference. For example, through a reading of Francis Ponge and Jacques Derrida,…
The LLHAA has awarded the 2015 Penny Pether Prize to Alison Young for her book Street Art, Public City. Street Art, Public City is the culmination of ten years’ work by an accomplished interdisciplinary scholar, and displays everywhere the elegance, the authority, and the intellectual agility earned over time. It…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of three RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what James Stewart (Adelaide Law School) had to say: Within my broader research area…
Proposals from people interested in guest editing Volume 21 (2017) of the journal Law Text Culture are due by 30 May 2016. Potential guest editors are encouraged to liaise with the Managing Editor to discuss their proposal or ideas for a special issue of Law Text Culture. All submitted proposals…
KSSCT is a rare opportunity for doctoral students and early career researchers to work intensively with a leading critical scholar in their field. Applicants are welcomed from all critical disciplinary perspective. In 2016 the school will take the form of three parallel intensive 2-week seminars: Professor Samantha Frost (“Matters of perception:…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of two RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what Ashley Pearson (Griffith Law School) had to say: There is no forum…
ÂÂÂCall for Papers LASSnet Conference 2016, Fourth Edition Dates: 10-12 December 2016 Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India The fourth edition of the LASSnet conference will be hosted by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (JNU, Delhi) in collaboration with the National Law University of Delhi (Dwarka),…
SPECTACULAR LAW Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 2016 The Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, 8-10 December 2016 Preceded by a half-day Graduate Research Student Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS The LLH Association of Australasia invites researchers working at the intersection of law and the…
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR GENERAL ISSUE Volume 42.2, December 2016 Deadline of May 30th, 2016 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 42.2 (December 2016). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law…
No Foundations is an international peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing interdisciplinary legal scholarship of the highest quality at the interface between law and justice. We encourage contributions from all areas of law and beyond, with the aim of bridging the gap once opened between law and other social and human…
Divided Authorities and Dispossessed Peoples: Aesthetic Dimensions of Political and Critical Theory in the 21st Century 20-22 July 2016, Humanities Research Centre Australian National University Invited Keynotes: Louise Amoore (Durham, UK), Chiara Bottici (New School NYC), Davide Panagia (UCLA), Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) Forms of authority inhabit aesthetic events…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of two RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what Ben Eldridge (University of Sydney) had to say: The death of rigor…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of two RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what Laura Petersen (MLS) had to say: As part of my PhD research,…
The Kent Summer School in Critical Theory is running for the second time this year, in Paris, 13-24 June 2016. The website has just gone live: http://kssct.org/ This summer school for early career researchers and doctoral students aims to create a unique pedagogical experience, enabling leading critical thinkers to conduct an…
Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, December 8-10, 2016 with a half-day Postgraduate Research Student Workshop on Dec 8 The LLH Association of Australasia invites researchers working at the intersection of law and the humanities to explore the complex relations between law, theory, culture, text and visuality. This conference…
Kent Law School 1st – 3rd September The Call for Stream Proposals is OPEN NOW – please send proposals of no more than 500 words along with short bios of the stream organisers to klsclc2016@kent.ac.uk. The Call for Stream Proposals closes 7 March 2016. “…there are no witnesses to changes of epoch. The…
The Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence Katherine Biber Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney This lecture examines the cultural afterlife of criminal evidence. It explores what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of the trial. Formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules…
The organisers of the 2015 Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory are pleased to announce plans for the 8th annual Forum, to be held 7th and 8th December 2015. The Forum is a welcoming, collegial and supportive environment that aims to foster intellectual and personal relationships between researchers and to…
A great new book on Cultural Legal Studies, edited by Cassandra Sharp and Marrett Leiboff, has just been launched. Order online here. Details below. What can law’s popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice? This collection explores such a question through the lens of the…
The Regulating Time network aims to advance interdisciplinary scholarship on the relationship between law and dominant concepts of time. The network is funded for 2 years by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and is a collaboration between the Universities of Kent and York. Please see attached our call for papers: Regulating…
Date: 13 – 14 August 2015 Location: UNSW School of Law This symposium takes as its starting point an account of the practices of indefinite detention both before and since 9/11, focusing on the subtly but distinctively different ways in which different jurisdictions have legislated for the so-called ‘preventive’ and…
The Association is pleased to announce the provision of a four (4) bursaries each values at $250AUD to assist PhD and Research Masters candidates to attend Complicities’, Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 9 – 12 December 2015. APPLICATION Applications for Bursaries close 5:00pm 21 August 2015. Bursaries…
The responsibility of the state described by Plato, the contracts written by Shakespeare’s Shylock, or the works delving into the plight of modern laborers all explore the intersections between Literature and Law. This conference will explore the way that literary renderings of labor concerns, broadly defined, have responded to or…
The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2016 special edition of the Journal (Volume 20), due for publication in December 2016. Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges about law and jurisprudence across three interconnected…
The ambition of the conference is to provide a permanent platform to discuss and explore the alternative methods of legal argumentation, i.e. those that are not regularly employed in everyday legal practice, but would prove extremely valuable if adopted. It is thus our intention to bring new stimuli to both…
Complicity is a state of being complex or involved, and no matter where we are, or what we do, law is part of our entanglement in the world. This conference will explore law’s complex relations with culture, politics and capital. It will investigate law as an accomplice, as well as…
The Griffith Law Review: Law Theory Society has a proud history of publishing innovative and engaging socio-legal, inter-disciplinary and critical legal research. Our focus is international and we engage with worldwide issues and agendas. In recognition of the Review’s standing as a leading journal, it was ranked A* by the…
The Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?” invites applications for three Fellowships from 1 October 2015. Framework The Research Group examines the role of international law in a changing global order. Developments in recent years give rise to the question whether the move towards an…
The Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC) at the University of Wollongong (UOW) invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit LIRC during 2015 for a minimum period of 2 weeks. LIRC engages in interdisciplinary scholarship across law, society and culture with a focus on public interest law…
29 June – 10 July 2015 Paris Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the new Kent Summer School in Critical Theory, which will run for the first time in Paris next July. Our website has just gone live, and we invite you pay us a visit: www.kssct.org. This new summer school for early…
7 – 11 July University of Wollongong The inaugural Australian Literary Studies Convention will be held at the University of Wollongong in July 2015. This is a landmark literary studies event that is being organised under the auspices of the Australasian Association for Literature (AAL), Association for the Study of…
Here’s a sample of the publications generated by the LLHAA community this year: Cassandra Sharp, “Justice with a Vengeance: Retributive Desire in Popular Imagination” in M. Asimow & K. Brown eds, Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives (2014) 153-176. The punishment of criminal behaviour has always been a hot topic…
Cassandra Sharp and Marett Leiboff, eds. Cultural Legal Studies: Law’s Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law June 2015 What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement takes up this question as it presents a new encounter with…
The Griffith Law Review is seeking submissions for 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…
Announcing a new Law & Humanities fellowship opportunity at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. The fellowship was created in honor of Prof. Willem Witteveen, who was a long standing professor in jurisprudence as well as a senator for the Labour Party in the Netherlands. Along with his wife and daughter,…
6-8 May 2014, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany www.lawspluralities.wordpress.com Conference Announcement & Call for Papers Plenary — Susanne Baer, Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, Professur für Öffentliches Recht und Geschlechterstudien an der Juristischen Fakultät und dem Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Mitträgerin des vom Berliner Forschungsverbund Recht…
Registrations are now open for the one-day Colloquium on Law and Love. This workshop aims to explore the intersection of the ideal of love in our social imaginary and the rule of law in our political imaginary. 5 December 2014 The Australian National University (Building and Room TBC) Full Registration…
Dear Colleagues, We are writing to invite you to join a virtual network of scholars and practitioners interested in the production, management and consumption of judicial images. This is an initiative supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The aim of the project is to promote dialogue, understanding,…
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, and Georgetown University Law School invite submissions for the eleventh meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia Law School Law in New York City on…
Monday 1st December – Tuesday 2nd December 2014 Call for Papers Melbourne Law School will host the seventh annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory on 1–2 December 2014. The Forum brings together research students from all academic disciplines to engage with social, political, theoretical, and methodological issues raised by law and…
Robyn Wiegman Annamarie Jagose Thursday 16th to Friday 17th October, 2014 Conference Room, Level 1 A D Hope Bldg (14), ANU Gender Institute & SLLL, ANU ‘The rejection of essentialism,’ David Halperin writes in How to be Gay (2012), ‘did not prevent the original founders of queer theory from asking…
Volume 41.1, June 2015 Deadline of September 30th, 2014 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 41.1 (June 2015). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As an…
Dates: 9-12 December 2015 – with 9 December as postgraduate day University of Technology Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia “Complicity” Complicity is a state of being complex or involved, and no matter where we are, or what we do, law is part of our entanglement in the world. This conference…
Deadline 1 August 2014 The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture is seeking proposals for the 2015 special edition of the Journal (Volume 19), due for publication in December 2015. Law Text Culture is an interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges along three axes of inquiry:…
Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC), University of Wollongong Date: Friday 4 July 2014 Time: 9am-5pm Location: 67.202 – Moot Court Register: Online by 27 June. Registration is free. Places are limited. Following Alice, who contemplates, and then explores, the world on the other side of the looking glass, this symposium…
Humanities Research Centre Australian National University 7-8 July 2014 This remarkable two day event brings together outstanding new research and an exceptional international line-up. Scholars and higher degree research students with research interests in law and the humanities, representation, law and culture, and visual theory will not want to miss…
Professor Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University, Boston Wednesday 9th July 2014Â Â 6-7pm Griffith Film School, South Bank Campus Since photographs and film were available to everyday people they have been part of the legal system and its factual evaluations with the goal of justice. Not without controversy, photographs and film have…
University of Technology, Sydney The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and the Faculty of Law 3 – 4 September 2014 Architectural scholars have long argued that the sensory bias of architecture towards sight is problematic, reducing habitable space and architectural form to mere images disengaged from a richer experience…
St Mary’s University Twickenham, London Law both regulates cultural representations and creates them. These dual themes will be explored in a conference focused upon the twin strands of law and visual culture, and law and gender. How does law regulate gender; how does it regulate images? What is/are the relationship/s…
QUT Law Review invites articles for its forthcoming Special Edition relating to legal and social aspects of G20 and the role of protest in modern democracies. The special issue will include material from a public forum on G20 issues conducted in collaboration between QUT and Caxton Legal Centre Inc., to…
Humanities Research Centre @ The Australian National University presents: Law and Love – a one-day colloquium 5 December 2014 Further details TBC In our social imaginary, love has become the major existential goal of our times, which is capable of providing all of us with a sense of worth and…
Deadline to submit papers:  31 AUGUST 2014  Papers should not exceed 10,000 words (references included) Instructions for authors are available at: http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196  Only papers submitted online will be evaluated: Submit online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/sela/ Papers submitted to the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law should evaluate how legal meanings are produced, distributed and…
May 19th and 20th, 2014 Call for Abstracts Law and Boundaries is an interdisciplinary yearly conference that aims to discuss and propose new perspectives on the challenges the legal discipline is facing regarding its object, its function, its theoretical foundations and its practical outcomes. We expect scholars from all disciplines…
4-6 September 2014 University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Call for Papers Conference Theme: By ‘Power, Capital, Chaos’, we refer to a context of ongoing global economic crisis, the neo-liberal destruction of social democracy and the ever-widening entrenchment of inequalities of wealth, power and technology within and between a global ‘North’…
The World Indigenous Legal Conference 2014 will be hosted by the Indigenous Lawyers Association of Queensland, from 23-27 June 2014, at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. The theme of the conference is “Past, Present and Futureâ€. The conference will incorporate the 9th National Indigenous Legal Conference 2014. Held…
THE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST AND BEST-KNOWN RESEARCH CENTRES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES. AS PART OF ITS 2014 ANNUAL THEME, NOW SHOWING: CULTURES, JUDGEMENTS, AND RESEARCH ON THE DIGITAL SCREEN, WE ARE CALLING FOR PAPERS ON THEMES OF VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF…
LUCAS (the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) will host a three-day conference Legal Bodies: Corpus / Persona / Communitas on the various ways in which literary texts and art works have represented, interrogated or challenged juridical notions of ‘personhood’.  The guiding assumption behind this conference is that…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Shaun McVeigh There is a lot to think with in Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law. On its surface it is a study of the ‘modernist’ moment of legal theory: it re-casts the canon and style of investigating legal and literary theory in order to address the modernist understanding…
Shaun McVeigh Too little work in the field of law literature and humanities scholarship in Australasia is subject to review. So let me begin with a brief notice of Bill (William P) MacNeil’s Novel Judgements: Legal Theory as Fiction (2012). This book was published last year but it has not…
Law Text Culture – Volume 16, Issue 1 (2012) Guest Editors: Luis Gomez Romero and Ian Dahlman Justice Framed is born of the passionate and rich – though not always peaceful or courteous – nexus between two long-time companions: comics and law. Comics are utterly gripped by issues of legality,…
Australian Feminist Law Journal – Special Issue (2012) Volume 36 Special Issue Editor: Marett Leiboff The first tentative steps inaugurating the Law Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia took place at the final (as it later turned out) Law and Literature conference, Trans(l)egalite, held at Griffith Law School in 2009.…
CALL FOR PAPERS Interpellations Annual Conference of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia 5 – 8 December 2013 The Australian National University Canberra, Australia Confirmed keynote speakers: ➢   Professor WJT Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago ➢   Dr Honni van Rijswijk,…
Where: Avid Reader – In Store Event, 193 Boundary St, West End, Brisbane, Queensland 4101 (AU). Date: Wednesday, 12, December, 2012 Time: 6:00:pm –  8:00:pm Join Griffith University’s Dr Chris Butler as Dan O’Neill launches Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City  The work…
The 2011 conference of the Association was held on 7-9 December at the University of Wollongong in conjunction with the Law & Society Association of Australia & New Zealand Inc. Fore more information see the conference website: http://www.uow.edu.au/law/LIRC/conference2011/index.html
