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Please join us Tuesday, April 16, from 4 - 7 pm in Room 1008 of the Cardozo School of Law (55 Fifth Ave.) to hear speakers from top universities honor philosopher Jacques Derrida! RSVP at [email protected], although walk-ins are fine. #lawandlit

Volume 36, Issue 1 is out! tandfonline.com/toc/rlal20/cur…

Have a look at Rebecca Shaw's work: The Emperor Augustus and Narratives of Legal Origin! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Join us Tuesday, April 16, 4-7PM, Room 1008 at Cardozo as we congregate in honour of Jacques Derrida, 20 years into his hontology, of his becoming spectral. Law and humanities thinkers will confabulate on topics rare and reasonable All welcome, free, tea and biscuits! #lawandlit

Join us Wednesday, September 25th, at 5:00pm for a Law and Film Seminar Making History on Film: The Case of War in Ukraine, a Film and Law seminar co-organized by Professors Peter Goodrich and Christian Delage. All welcome, free admission, tea and biscuits.

Explore Alison W. Conner's essay on Chinese "scar cinema," analyzing films that depict the Cultural Revolution's harsh reality, featuring ideas of justice and law that remain relevant to China today. #lawandlit doi.org/10.1080/153568…

Jacques Derrida, Force of Law: The "Mystical Foundation of Authority", 11 Cardozo L. Rev. 920 (1990).

Levinas, Emmanuel (1961/1969). Totality and infinity.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1988). Can the Subaltern Speak?

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What happens to the subjective self when the legal system pursues not truths, but procedurally defensible narratives? This article contends that Katie Kitamura’s "Intimacies" critiques the colonial roles of law in systemic and personal terms. #lawandlit doi.org/10.1080/153568…

Maksymilian Del Mar's essay argues for the theoretical importance of emotion in reasoning, reading, knowing, acting, and judging, by extracting five theoretical vignettes based on two histories of rhetoric by Rita Copeland and Benedict Robinson. #lawandlit doi.org/10.1080/153568…

How is justice possible when society tends towards war? Renan Porto posits a "nomadic justice" through a reading of a trial held by jagunços in João Guimarães Rosa's "Grande Sertão: Veredas," where the decision is haunted by undecidability. ⚖️🌵 #lawandlit doi.org/10.1080/153568…

See below for a CfP from our Law&Lit friends at Maastricht University!!

Here is Anna Arzoumanov's fascinating analysis of 2 French court cases where novelists faced legal action for their characters' controversial statements. Does fictionality distance authors from their works? What does linguistic analysis show?🤔 #lawandlit doi.org/10.1080/153568…

Join us Sunday, December 8th, for the Humouring the Norm: Law and Comedy conference at Cardozo School of Law. All are welcome, admission is free! To register, send names to [email protected].

Explore Paper No. 1 of Silvia Niccolai & Angela Condello's series on “Catalogo n. 2 – Le madri di tutte noi,” where '70s Italian feminists debated literary “mothers” & the feminine symbolic—revealing feminism's power amid today's evolving identity battles. doi.org/10.1080/153568…

Read "Vortext" by Shane Chalmers and Desmond Manderson. This insightful article explores how stories, myths & imagination—tools once used to maintain colonial legal orders—can be wielded to challenge & reimagine them. ✍️🔄🌏 doi.org/10.1080/153568…

Jesters of justice, clowns, jokesters, standup artists, actors, judges, law students, professors, and scholars, join us this Sunday, December 8th from 10am to 6pm, for the 'Humouring the Norms: Comedy and Law Conference' at Cardozo School of Law (55 5th Ave, NYC)! #comedyandlaw