Dear all,

Please see the CFP below for the Law and the Humanities Forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2020. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz and Christine Holbo

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Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Seattle, January 9-12, 2020

Law, Literature, and Human Rights

Papers examining…[Read more]

2019 LAW AND HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP

Call for Papers

Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the thirteenth meeting of the Law and Humanities J…[Read more]

Please join us at MLA 2018 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:

Session 221:  Law, Literature and Emotion

Friday, January 5, 2018, 8:30-9:45 a.m.

Hilton, Concourse A

Description:  Panelists consider the relation between law and emotion as seen in seventeenth-century English tragedy, antebellum American p…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS – 2018 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop

Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania invite submissions for the annual meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior S…[Read more]

 CFP:  Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference – Visualizing Justice

Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Dale Barleben – dbarleben@jjay.cuny.edu

When: Friday, October 27 – Saturday, October 28, 2017
Where: John Jay College (CUNY) – (located on the upper-west side of Manhattan, near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)

This conference brings…[Read more]

Dear all,

The Law and the Humanities Forum will be sponsoring two panels at next year’s MLA convention in New York City (January 4-7, 2018).  We hope that you will consider submitting proposals for the following panels:

Law, Literature, and Emotion

How do imaginative texts explore intersections between law and emotion? Crimes of passion,…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]

Dear all,

Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the panels that the Law and the Humanities Forum is sponsoring at MLA 2017.  We are organizing one guaranteed session and two special (non-guaranteed) sessions this year:

1.  Object Lessons in Personhood (Guaranteed Session)
10-minute papers on a single “thing.” How do theoretical issue…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Legal History Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown University

Saturday April 23rd, 2016
at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Deadline for submission: February 29th, 2016
Acceptance notification: March 7th, 2016

The Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown…[Read more]

Dear all,

I’m running for a position on the executive committee of the Law and Humanities forum and wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I’m an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature and culture, law and literature, and the history of the novel. I’m curre…[Read more]