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