Law and Humanities
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Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. Editor: David Gurnham (Soton); Book reviews: Matteo Nicolini (Verona); Arts: Elena Cooper (CREATe).
'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
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Love this arts essay, not just re enduring power of Kafka's writing, but also for what an astute English scholar says re creativity in adaptation: in changing media "distinctive... grammars... transpose Kafka’s textual strategies" e.g. "aural dissonance, scenic abstraction or visual distortion" ⭐
OUT NOW 👇 Essay by @josephowen.bsky.social on adaptations of Kafka's 'The Trial' by Anmol Vellani (the play "Innocence") & Ed Harris (BBC radio drama): "Taken together, these recent adaptations reveal why The Trial endures as a critical touchpoint in the twenty-first century." tinyurl.com/3jxvpemx
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November 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Love this arts essay, not just re enduring power of Kafka's writing, but also for what an astute English scholar says re creativity in adaptation: in changing media "distinctive... grammars... transpose Kafka’s textual strategies" e.g. "aural dissonance, scenic abstraction or visual distortion" ⭐
OUT NOW 👇 Essay by @josephowen.bsky.social on adaptations of Kafka's 'The Trial' by Anmol Vellani (the play "Innocence") & Ed Harris (BBC radio drama): "Taken together, these recent adaptations reveal why The Trial endures as a critical touchpoint in the twenty-first century." tinyurl.com/3jxvpemx
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November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
OUT NOW 👇 Essay by @josephowen.bsky.social on adaptations of Kafka's 'The Trial' by Anmol Vellani (the play "Innocence") & Ed Harris (BBC radio drama): "Taken together, these recent adaptations reveal why The Trial endures as a critical touchpoint in the twenty-first century." tinyurl.com/3jxvpemx
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This year's event is jointly funded by @law-and-humanities.bsky.social & @demconextcd.bsky.social a project funded under @euerasmusplus.bsky.social. We are also delighted to be bringing the Roundtable to Ireland for the first time w/ the support of @irishhumanities.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This year's event is jointly funded by @law-and-humanities.bsky.social & @demconextcd.bsky.social a project funded under @euerasmusplus.bsky.social. We are also delighted to be bringing the Roundtable to Ireland for the first time w/ the support of @irishhumanities.bsky.social
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Creative Writers wanted: Call for abstracts
Stories of ‘Separation’ and ‘Gathering’ in Legal and Creative Imaginaries: a Legal Humanities and Creative Writing Workshop
1 and 2 July 2026, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Deadline: Dec 1 2025.
#WritingCommunity
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Stories of ‘Separation’ and ‘Gathering’ in Legal and Creative Imaginaries: a Legal Humanities and Creative Writing Workshop
1 and 2 July 2026, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Deadline: Dec 1 2025.
#WritingCommunity
@law-and-humanities.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Creative Writers wanted: Call for abstracts
Stories of ‘Separation’ and ‘Gathering’ in Legal and Creative Imaginaries: a Legal Humanities and Creative Writing Workshop
1 and 2 July 2026, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Deadline: Dec 1 2025.
#WritingCommunity
@law-and-humanities.bsky.social
Stories of ‘Separation’ and ‘Gathering’ in Legal and Creative Imaginaries: a Legal Humanities and Creative Writing Workshop
1 and 2 July 2026, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Deadline: Dec 1 2025.
#WritingCommunity
@law-and-humanities.bsky.social
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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Come and join us for the Launch of the Dance and Legal Materialities Network which explores how dance can animate legal materials. Led by IALS librarian Marilyn Clarke, legal researcher Marie Andree Jacob & dance artist/researcher Anna Macdonald. Book your place today! ials.sas.ac.uk/events/dance...
Dance and Legal Materialities Network: Embodied acts of Reading
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November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Come and join us for the Launch of the Dance and Legal Materialities Network which explores how dance can animate legal materials. Led by IALS librarian Marilyn Clarke, legal researcher Marie Andree Jacob & dance artist/researcher Anna Macdonald. Book your place today! ials.sas.ac.uk/events/dance...
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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.
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 3:32 PM
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
In our new issue published today, we mark J.M.W. Turner's 250th birthday with an editorial discussing his 'The Slave Ship' (1840) which may or may not depict the facts of the notorious 'Zong' case (1783); the painting forms our new bsky banner☝️Editorial here:
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Editorial
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 19, No. 2, 2025)
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October 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In our new issue published today, we mark J.M.W. Turner's 250th birthday with an editorial discussing his 'The Slave Ship' (1840) which may or may not depict the facts of the notorious 'Zong' case (1783); the painting forms our new bsky banner☝️Editorial here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"We must start by asking better questions: who is represented in anatomical imagery today? Whose bodies are missing? And whose stories are never told?"
The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent theconversation.com/the-dark-his...
The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent theconversation.com/the-dark-his...
The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent
Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"We must start by asking better questions: who is represented in anatomical imagery today? Whose bodies are missing? And whose stories are never told?"
The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent theconversation.com/the-dark-his...
The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent theconversation.com/the-dark-his...
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I've written about Kafka for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social anities.bsky.social
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October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I've written about Kafka for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social anities.bsky.social
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Really pleased that my new article, ‘‘Shall James K. Hardy be renominated for District Judge?’: Classical Jurisprudence, Politics, and Patriarchy in A Family Affair’ is now out in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. A short 🧵about it.
#filmsky #lawsky #skystorians🗃️ #polisky
#filmsky #lawsky #skystorians🗃️ #polisky
‘Shall James K. Hardy be renominated for District Judge?’: classical jurisprudence, politics, and patriarchy in A Family Affair
This article examines the treatment of questions of jurisprudence, and its social and political connotations, in Hollywood cinema against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the New Deal, with...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Really pleased that my new article, ‘‘Shall James K. Hardy be renominated for District Judge?’: Classical Jurisprudence, Politics, and Patriarchy in A Family Affair’ is now out in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. A short 🧵about it.
#filmsky #lawsky #skystorians🗃️ #polisky
#filmsky #lawsky #skystorians🗃️ #polisky
'Planting of countries is like planting of woods. (Sir Francis Bacon, 1601)'... Metaphors abound in Prof Matteo Nicolini's new article on the 17thC transplantation of English law to America👉 doi.org/10.1080/1752... -
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@matteo1977.bsky.social @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
Horticultural titles. Seeds, gardens, and English law in seventeenth-century Virginia plantations
The article examines the production of English colonial legal spaces in seventeenth-century North America. Particularly in Virginia, their production revolved around the concept of ‘plantation’, wh...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
'Planting of countries is like planting of woods. (Sir Francis Bacon, 1601)'... Metaphors abound in Prof Matteo Nicolini's new article on the 17thC transplantation of English law to America👉 doi.org/10.1080/1752... -
@matteo1977.bsky.social @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
@matteo1977.bsky.social @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
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Our colleague @drelenacooper.bsky.social will be speaking at @rhul-cvs.bsky.social where she will launch the new online exhibition 'Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century' 🖼
📅 20 November
📍Royal Holloway, Picture Gallery
Learn more 👉 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
📅 20 November
📍Royal Holloway, Picture Gallery
Learn more 👉 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Our colleague @drelenacooper.bsky.social will be speaking at @rhul-cvs.bsky.social where she will launch the new online exhibition 'Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century' 🖼
📅 20 November
📍Royal Holloway, Picture Gallery
Learn more 👉 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
📅 20 November
📍Royal Holloway, Picture Gallery
Learn more 👉 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
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Out now in The Burlington: my review of Martinez & Roman Female Printmakers, Printsellers & Print Publishers: The Imprint of Women 1700-1830'. "pushes
back against the archival gender bias
that has informed
record creation & preservation"; important focus on prints, understudied cf to painting.
back against the archival gender bias
that has informed
record creation & preservation"; important focus on prints, understudied cf to painting.
October 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Out now in The Burlington: my review of Martinez & Roman Female Printmakers, Printsellers & Print Publishers: The Imprint of Women 1700-1830'. "pushes
back against the archival gender bias
that has informed
record creation & preservation"; important focus on prints, understudied cf to painting.
back against the archival gender bias
that has informed
record creation & preservation"; important focus on prints, understudied cf to painting.
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Over the moon to see my paper with artist Travis De Vries has been published in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. Our paper is framed through a series of conversations about art, law, and justice.
You can read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
You can read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
Entropy Awakening or Tear it Down? A conversation about contested statues
This paper explores the challenges faced by states with colonial or slavery histories in addressing contested statues or monuments whose messages no longer align with contemporary societal values. ...
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August 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Over the moon to see my paper with artist Travis De Vries has been published in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. Our paper is framed through a series of conversations about art, law, and justice.
You can read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
You can read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
New essay by Chi Ying Lam @uosmusic.bsky.social on the experiences of artists displaced from Hong Kong arriving in the UK - addressing questions of 'identity, and the transformative role of creativity in diasporic experiences'. *Read it here*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you for listening: creative practices and cultural adaptation tensions among Hong Kong migrant artists in the UK
This essay explores how migrant artists from Hong Kong have used creative practices to adapt to life in the UK. Through personal narratives expressed in songwriting, theatre, and blogging, it highl...
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August 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New essay by Chi Ying Lam @uosmusic.bsky.social on the experiences of artists displaced from Hong Kong arriving in the UK - addressing questions of 'identity, and the transformative role of creativity in diasporic experiences'. *Read it here*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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
Law and Literature: The Irish Case | Home
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
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
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📣Comrades! 📣
The videos from our 2025 Law & Marxism Spring School are on our YouTube Channel! 📽️
Watch and share with your networks!!!
EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene - youtu.be/j6MApCcKHHo
The videos from our 2025 Law & Marxism Spring School are on our YouTube Channel! 📽️
Watch and share with your networks!!!
EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene - youtu.be/j6MApCcKHHo
Law & Marxism Spring School 2025 - EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene
YouTube video by Centre for Law & Social Change
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August 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📣Comrades! 📣
The videos from our 2025 Law & Marxism Spring School are on our YouTube Channel! 📽️
Watch and share with your networks!!!
EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene - youtu.be/j6MApCcKHHo
The videos from our 2025 Law & Marxism Spring School are on our YouTube Channel! 📽️
Watch and share with your networks!!!
EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene - youtu.be/j6MApCcKHHo
"Pain of all sorts, and its attendant politics, is particularly evident in the area of the prison where we are working, and where Kevin A. is housed"... New article by Ruth Bernatek @sociowarwick.bsky.social on an experience of prison @saulhewish.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Embodying Kevin A: notes on identity, creativity & prison
I have only ever known one Kevin, and only then for a very brief period of time. He is Kevin A., and I met him in prison whilst taking part in an eight-day lyric writing workshop, in early January ...
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August 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"Pain of all sorts, and its attendant politics, is particularly evident in the area of the prison where we are working, and where Kevin A. is housed"... New article by Ruth Bernatek @sociowarwick.bsky.social on an experience of prison @saulhewish.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Is the legal world really too complicated for any abstraction?
@dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
@dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
Pragmatism, Law, and Literature
This book uses literary examples to make the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism.
For pragmatists, experience is everything; they argue against...
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July 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Is the legal world really too complicated for any abstraction?
@dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
@dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
ARTS REVIEW: @adiver.bsky.social reviews The Marian Hotel, new play by new playwright C Cunningham, directed by P Byrne Sole Purpose Productions, Lyric Theatre Belfast: "Cunningham’s play is timely... capturing a dark moment in history but also... making a heartfelt call to action" shorturl.at/lkOsG
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July 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ARTS REVIEW: @adiver.bsky.social reviews The Marian Hotel, new play by new playwright C Cunningham, directed by P Byrne Sole Purpose Productions, Lyric Theatre Belfast: "Cunningham’s play is timely... capturing a dark moment in history but also... making a heartfelt call to action" shorturl.at/lkOsG
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Standing at Turner’s view, a painting spot of the great JMW Turner, but what was he thinking when he painted The Slave Ship now in collection of @mfaboston.bsky.social What view of law does this embody? Reflections on this & more coming up in editorial of next @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Issue
July 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Standing at Turner’s view, a painting spot of the great JMW Turner, but what was he thinking when he painted The Slave Ship now in collection of @mfaboston.bsky.social What view of law does this embody? Reflections on this & more coming up in editorial of next @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Issue