Law and Humanities

Olivier awards 2026: full list of nominations Into the Woods and Paddington: The Musical are this year’s most-nominated shows with 11 nods each. See who else is in the running at this year’s awards

Olivier nominations: Suzie Miller's Inter Alia @nationaltheatre.org.uk for best new play & best actress (R Pike); congrats also to our friends @royalcourt.bsky.social & we're watching Nick Hytner's @thebridgetheatre.bsky.social with which we hope to work with in future👇 &https://tinyurl.com/bp3jh87c

The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums Collaborative forums connecting early-career scholars across the UK to explore interdisciplinary approaches to law and the humanities.

CALL FOR PAPERS: LHub's new project: law and humanities in the 'Four Nations', ECR network: with forthcoming workshops in England, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland. Fab events for our ECR community 👏 👇 @adiver.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yrk86hyp

Choreography of Consent: Online symposium

The Choreography of Consent: "experiments in dance/law research, which bring together artists, practitioners and scholars to develop innovative dance and law research methods that explore the movement of consent." Online event on 13th Feb 👇 tinyurl.com/2ucnxze5

Illustrationen zu Franz Kafka, a visual art exhibition curated by Sebastian Schmidt, at Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Germany, from 12 October 2024–12 January 2025 The afterlife of Franz Kafka's writing has proved strikingly visual. For more than a century, artists have returned to Kafka not only to illustrate his work in the conventional sense, but to test h...

OUT NOW: Ian Ellison @wadhamcollege.bsky.social reviews the visual art exhibition 'IIlustrationen zu Franz Kafka' (Regesburg, Germany) exploring rich 'visual afterlife' of a literary author who, while visual in his private creative process, resisted illustration of his work. shorturl.at/Skx0o

As a new force in critical creative theatre is released in Swansea - 1st production of new @welshnattheatre.bsky.social led by @mchshe.bsky.social - we're watching with interest at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social, home of scholarly engagement with arts. I'll be at the Rose to see the play in March!

"..even in a moment of satisfaction, he is still political. He is an activist as much as an actor. & now, also artistic director of a new national theatre company." The Stage 👇 on Michael Sheen & new Welsh National Theatre. We are watching with interest with arts reviews in mind!

Who owns art? | The big question

‘Who owns art?’ Our Arts Editor blogs for the Walker Gallery re Turner 250. As our audience knows, our own banner 👆, integral to the analysis in our latest editorial, is a comment on the enduring law & humanities significance of Turner’s The Slave Ship tinyurl.com/a78xe6w7

‘Spotlight on Theatre’ in Law and Humanities: Arts Reviews connect important new plays performed at the Royal Court, Lyric Theatre Belfast and the National Theatre - CREATe

ARTS NEWS👇 Have you seen our Spotlight on Theatre in the latest Issue? Our editorial links reviews by @kristinhausler.bsky.social, @eepwrites.bsky.social & @adiver.bsky.social re plays at @royalcourt.bsky.social, @nationaltheatre.org.uk, Lyric Belfast; @silentfacesuk.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3m4ccd7k

Found them!!👇Unused for 30 yrs, after I failed my Royal Academy of Dance entry exam aged 17, but now I’m ready for Dance & Legal Materialities workshop at @ials.bsky.social on Monday 💃 🤔 hoping to connect further with @law-and-humanities.bsky.social community! 🕺🪩 💡Event details: tinyurl.com/nkpwtjnp

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...

'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

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

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

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

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 👇

Dance and Legal Materialities Network: Embodied acts of Reading

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...

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.

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)

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

Editorial Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 19, No. 2, 2025)

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....

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.

"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...

I've written about Kafka for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social anities.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘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...

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

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...

'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

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...

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.

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. ...

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...

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...

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....

Law and Literature: The Irish Case | Home Adam Hanna is Lecturer in Irish Literature in the Department of English at University College Cork.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! £24, so a bit easier on your library budgets

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

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

Law & Marxism Spring School 2025 - EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene YouTube video by Centre for Law & Social Change

📣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