A collection of intellectual, popular, and askance texts that share in the love of law and literature.
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…
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…