Canadian Network of Law & Humanities
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The network aims to increase the visibility of law and humanities study in Canada by facilitating collaborative projects, ideas, and events.
Find more here: https://cnlh.ubc.ca/
Find more here: https://cnlh.ubc.ca/
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I loved editing this new Arts essay👇 fab interdisciplinary scholarship ⭐; unison gives way to polyvocal views. Do read to the end: this is 1st arts review of music in L&H & it flags creative space for future collaboration between lawyers, artists & those with lived experiences of rights violations.
OUT NOW: music & human rights scholars respond to Voices by @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social. "What is the potential of music to engage with a legal document?" Is Voices "just the revolution that international law has been waiting for"? Polyvocal essay by Glenat, Tuohy & Yahyaoui👇 shorturl.at/XY7Df
Accessing the vitality of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights as a living document through the music of Max Richter
Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I loved editing this new Arts essay👇 fab interdisciplinary scholarship ⭐; unison gives way to polyvocal views. Do read to the end: this is 1st arts review of music in L&H & it flags creative space for future collaboration between lawyers, artists & those with lived experiences of rights violations.
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'Art Law in Fiction and Film': event at National Gallery, London, 11am-12pm, Tues 9th Dec, organised by the Art Lawyers' Association. And to our L&H community: if you go, please say 👋 to our Arts Editor @drelenacooper.bsky.social who will be attending! tinyurl.com/2w7fcmue
The 12th ALA Roundtable Discussion - Art law in fiction and film | Art Lawyers Assoc
We are pleased to announce the 12th session of the Art Lawyers Association's Roundtable Discussions. This discussion will be hosted by Richard Barnet and Charlotte Eaton from the National Gallery lega...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
'Art Law in Fiction and Film': event at National Gallery, London, 11am-12pm, Tues 9th Dec, organised by the Art Lawyers' Association. And to our L&H community: if you go, please say 👋 to our Arts Editor @drelenacooper.bsky.social who will be attending! tinyurl.com/2w7fcmue
For anyone who missed UBC-Allard Professor Godwin Dzah's excellent CNLH Presents talk, it is now available on our website: cnlh.ubc.ca/cnlh-present...
CNLH Presents: The Incorporation of What Is (Not) Law in International Law Research with Professor Godwin Dzah – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities
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December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
For anyone who missed UBC-Allard Professor Godwin Dzah's excellent CNLH Presents talk, it is now available on our website: cnlh.ubc.ca/cnlh-present...
Critical Times Law & Humanities Summer School University of Lucerne July 6-10, 2026. Open to PhD, PostDoc, Grads to re/think the significance of bodies in various contexts, situations and relations. Or to ask: do bodies still matter? Deadline: March 20, 2026
More Info: www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...
More Info: www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Critical Times Law & Humanities Summer School University of Lucerne July 6-10, 2026. Open to PhD, PostDoc, Grads to re/think the significance of bodies in various contexts, situations and relations. Or to ask: do bodies still matter? Deadline: March 20, 2026
More Info: www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...
More Info: www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...
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Very exciting, there is a new learned society in legal studies, the Legal Humanities Association. It's based in the UK but very explicitly international in focus. It aims to foster a community dedicated to cultural understandings of law. legalhumanities.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Very exciting, there is a new learned society in legal studies, the Legal Humanities Association. It's based in the UK but very explicitly international in focus. It aims to foster a community dedicated to cultural understandings of law. legalhumanities.com
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The legal humanities are a global phenomenon. Read why the IHA now has an established working group in this area from our WG Co-Chair @adamhanna.bsky.social @ucc.ie
www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...
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The Legal Humanities Working Group: An Introduction | Irish Humanities Alliance
The legal humanities are a global phenomenon; the newly-established Legal Humanities Working Group in the Irish Humanities Alliance is interested in the ways in which they have been, and continue to b...
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February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The legal humanities are a global phenomenon. Read why the IHA now has an established working group in this area from our WG Co-Chair @adamhanna.bsky.social @ucc.ie
www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...
www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...
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As #internationallaw is put on pressure, Sophocles’ Antigone is an age-old referent of its material source.
And a reminder that you can deny/diminish its effective power as ‘higher law’ but you cannot eliminate its heartbeat.
Our sensibility to suffered injustice & calls to ‘Justice herself’
And a reminder that you can deny/diminish its effective power as ‘higher law’ but you cannot eliminate its heartbeat.
Our sensibility to suffered injustice & calls to ‘Justice herself’
Antigone and Ireland: A Symposium in the Legal Humanities
Details and tickets (free) at the Abbey Theatre link below. (Full programme at their embedded Eventbrite ticket link.)
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ant...
Details and tickets (free) at the Abbey Theatre link below. (Full programme at their embedded Eventbrite ticket link.)
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ant...
April 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
As #internationallaw is put on pressure, Sophocles’ Antigone is an age-old referent of its material source.
And a reminder that you can deny/diminish its effective power as ‘higher law’ but you cannot eliminate its heartbeat.
Our sensibility to suffered injustice & calls to ‘Justice herself’
And a reminder that you can deny/diminish its effective power as ‘higher law’ but you cannot eliminate its heartbeat.
Our sensibility to suffered injustice & calls to ‘Justice herself’
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CfP: announcing the 8th L&H Roundtable workshop 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature' @tcddublin.bsky.social on 19 Jun 2026. Submit abstracts to Roisin.acostello@tcd.ie by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
CfP: announcing the 8th L&H Roundtable workshop 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature' @tcddublin.bsky.social on 19 Jun 2026. Submit abstracts to Roisin.acostello@tcd.ie by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
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We're delighted to see the annual Law and Humanities roundtable is coming to Ireland for the first time (in association with the @irishhumanities.bsky.social Legal Humanities Working Group).
Congratulations and best of luck to the leads, Róisín Costello and David Gurnham.
CFP below!
Congratulations and best of luck to the leads, Róisín Costello and David Gurnham.
CFP below!
CfP: announcing the 8th L&H Roundtable workshop 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature' @tcddublin.bsky.social on 19 Jun 2026. Submit abstracts to Roisin.acostello@tcd.ie by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We're delighted to see the annual Law and Humanities roundtable is coming to Ireland for the first time (in association with the @irishhumanities.bsky.social Legal Humanities Working Group).
Congratulations and best of luck to the leads, Róisín Costello and David Gurnham.
CFP below!
Congratulations and best of luck to the leads, Róisín Costello and David Gurnham.
CFP below!
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We're searching for a new Editor-in-Chief! Please see Call for Applications:
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Law and History Review: A Call for an Editor
[We have the following announcement from the Publications Committee of the American Society for Legal History . DRE] After eight years of ...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We're searching for a new Editor-in-Chief! Please see Call for Applications:
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legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/law-...
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Now Published!
Mod. Crim. L. Rev. 1:2 (2025):
Special Issue on Criminal Law, Literature, and History (Simon Stern, guest editor)
crimlrev.net/mclr-articles/
@elisewang.bsky.social @lizpappkamali.bsky.social @simon8.bsky.social @hkpmw.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
Mod. Crim. L. Rev. 1:2 (2025):
Special Issue on Criminal Law, Literature, and History (Simon Stern, guest editor)
crimlrev.net/mclr-articles/
@elisewang.bsky.social @lizpappkamali.bsky.social @simon8.bsky.social @hkpmw.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Now Published!
Mod. Crim. L. Rev. 1:2 (2025):
Special Issue on Criminal Law, Literature, and History (Simon Stern, guest editor)
crimlrev.net/mclr-articles/
@elisewang.bsky.social @lizpappkamali.bsky.social @simon8.bsky.social @hkpmw.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
Mod. Crim. L. Rev. 1:2 (2025):
Special Issue on Criminal Law, Literature, and History (Simon Stern, guest editor)
crimlrev.net/mclr-articles/
@elisewang.bsky.social @lizpappkamali.bsky.social @simon8.bsky.social @hkpmw.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
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On Thursday, November 6, join us in person or online for a discussion of humanistic and arts-based approaches to law scholarship with Allard Law Professor Godwin Dzah.
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CNLH Presents: The Incorporation of What Is (Not) Law in International Law Research
Using international environmental law research as a point of reference, Professor Godwin Dzah explores the legal normativity embedded in non-legal sources, including history, sociology, and cultural a...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
On Thursday, November 6, join us in person or online for a discussion of humanistic and arts-based approaches to law scholarship with Allard Law Professor Godwin Dzah.
allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...
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🎨 CMS invites artists to submit for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱–𝟮𝟲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! Explore how migrants navigate physical, social, political, and identity borders, revealing journeys of exclusion, hope, pain, and resilience.
Prizes: 🥇$1,250 🥈$250
Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/news/interna...
Prizes: 🥇$1,250 🥈$250
Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/news/interna...
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
🎨 CMS invites artists to submit for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱–𝟮𝟲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! Explore how migrants navigate physical, social, political, and identity borders, revealing journeys of exclusion, hope, pain, and resilience.
Prizes: 🥇$1,250 🥈$250
Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/news/interna...
Prizes: 🥇$1,250 🥈$250
Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/news/interna...
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On Jan 22, join us for a free screening of Pride vs. Prejudice: the Delwin Vriend Story, followed by a panel discussion. This award-winning documentary traces the development of human rights protections for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Canada. Register now: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...
UBC Film Screening & Discussion: Pride vs. Prejudice
Join us for a screening and discussion. This award-winning documentary traces the development of human rights protections for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Canada.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
On Jan 22, join us for a free screening of Pride vs. Prejudice: the Delwin Vriend Story, followed by a panel discussion. This award-winning documentary traces the development of human rights protections for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Canada. Register now: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...
Call for Papers: "World Literature and Disappearance" for a special issue of ARIEL (A Review of International English Lit)
Abstract & Bio due Feb 1, 2026 via email to Peter Leman peter_leman@byu.edu & Joseph Wager joseph.wager@siu.edu
Abstract & Bio due Feb 1, 2026 via email to Peter Leman peter_leman@byu.edu & Joseph Wager joseph.wager@siu.edu
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Call for Papers: "World Literature and Disappearance" for a special issue of ARIEL (A Review of International English Lit)
Abstract & Bio due Feb 1, 2026 via email to Peter Leman peter_leman@byu.edu & Joseph Wager joseph.wager@siu.edu
Abstract & Bio due Feb 1, 2026 via email to Peter Leman peter_leman@byu.edu & Joseph Wager joseph.wager@siu.edu
ATTN Grad Students: 26th Annual UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Grad Conference May 7-8, 2026 in Vancouver @allard.ubc.ca
Theme: "Is Law the Answer? Engaging the Law's Responses to Difficult Questions."
Abstracts DUE: Feb 13, 2026 via email to allardgraduateconference@outlook.com
Theme: "Is Law the Answer? Engaging the Law's Responses to Difficult Questions."
Abstracts DUE: Feb 13, 2026 via email to allardgraduateconference@outlook.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
ATTN Grad Students: 26th Annual UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Grad Conference May 7-8, 2026 in Vancouver @allard.ubc.ca
Theme: "Is Law the Answer? Engaging the Law's Responses to Difficult Questions."
Abstracts DUE: Feb 13, 2026 via email to allardgraduateconference@outlook.com
Theme: "Is Law the Answer? Engaging the Law's Responses to Difficult Questions."
Abstracts DUE: Feb 13, 2026 via email to allardgraduateconference@outlook.com
Call for Papers & Grad Workshop: @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social LCH Conference June 17-18, 2026 & Grad Workshop June 16, 2026 at DePaul in Chicago, USA// Theme: Uprooted Law: Reflecting on the Origins & Outgrowths of Law// Deadline: Jan 31, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
October 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Call for Papers & Grad Workshop: @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social LCH Conference June 17-18, 2026 & Grad Workshop June 16, 2026 at DePaul in Chicago, USA// Theme: Uprooted Law: Reflecting on the Origins & Outgrowths of Law// Deadline: Jan 31, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
Save the Date! @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social LCH Conference June 17-18, 2026 (Grad Student Workshop June 16, 2026) at DePaul in Chicago, USA// Deadline: Jan 31, 2026// More Info Soon: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: 2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities
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October 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Save the Date! @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social LCH Conference June 17-18, 2026 (Grad Student Workshop June 16, 2026) at DePaul in Chicago, USA// Deadline: Jan 31, 2026// More Info Soon: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: Conceptualising the Demise of Law for the upcoming World Congress of the Int'l Assoc Phil of Law & Social Phil// Meeting June 28-Jul 3, 2026 in Istanbul// Deadline: Nov 21, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: Conceptualising the Demise of Law at the World Congress of the International Association Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities
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October 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Call for Papers: Conceptualising the Demise of Law for the upcoming World Congress of the Int'l Assoc Phil of Law & Social Phil// Meeting June 28-Jul 3, 2026 in Istanbul// Deadline: Nov 21, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
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Anyone with an interesting Postdoc idea related to critical legal theory, law/exception, public order, policing, strikes or critical engagements with human rights, drop me a line. The timeline is short on this (23rd of Oct) but its well worth applying: www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - Research Ireland
The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and manag...
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September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Anyone with an interesting Postdoc idea related to critical legal theory, law/exception, public order, policing, strikes or critical engagements with human rights, drop me a line. The timeline is short on this (23rd of Oct) but its well worth applying: www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...
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📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
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Brilliant new special issue of Law and Critique available on Memory Politics: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
On Memory, Law, and Politics: An Introduction - Law and Critique
Law and Critique -
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September 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Brilliant new special issue of Law and Critique available on Memory Politics: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! £24, so a bit easier on your library budgets
Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! £24, so a bit easier on your library budgets
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Adam Hanna is Lecturer in Irish Literature in the Department of English at University College Cork.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! £24, so a bit easier on your library budgets
Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! £24, so a bit easier on your library budgets