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

'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 [email protected] by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇

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.

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

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....

"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....

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

'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.

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...

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....

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

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

📣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

"Pain of all sorts, and its attendant politics, is particularly evident in the area of the prison where we are working, and where Kevin A. is housed"... New article by Ruth Bernatek @sociowarwick.bsky.social on an experience of prison @saulhewish.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is the legal world really too complicated for any abstraction? @dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

ARTS REVIEW: @adiver.bsky.social reviews The Marian Hotel, new play by new playwright C Cunningham, directed by P Byrne Sole Purpose Productions, Lyric Theatre Belfast: "Cunningham’s play is timely... capturing a dark moment in history but also... making a heartfelt call to action" shorturl.at/lkOsG

Standing at Turner’s view, a painting spot of the great JMW Turner, but what was he thinking when he painted The Slave Ship now in collection of @mfaboston.bsky.social What view of law does this embody? Reflections on this & more coming up in editorial of next @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Issue

Tallulah Lines @cahr-york.bsky.social in her new article: "arts-based responses to femicidal violence offer an opportunity to cultivate recognition, repair, dignity, voice, and agency" #LawAndArt #WomensArt @sherelemoody.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social Full text here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

Very excited to be travelling to @exeter.ac.uk for the Law and Humanities Roundtable 2025 'Jane Austen's Legal World' tomorrow. Convened by @profprobert.bsky.social & with our arts editor @drelenacooper.bsky.social in attendance too #JaneAusten Full programme: sites.exeter.ac.uk/lawbulletin/...

NEW ARTS REVIEW: @kristinhausler.bsky.social reviews ‘Scenes from a Repatriation’, new play by Joel Tan which recently debuted @royalcourt.bsky.social : tinyurl.com/jptak5ha

'The 4 women stare out at the audience. This becomes an accusing glare. Such horrors occur when society sits in silent toleration of systemic degradation.' Powerful review coming soon for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social by @adiver.bsky.social re play The Marian Hotel on forced infant relinquishments

Exhibition now on: 'Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict', Imperial War Museum, London (until Nov 2025). Anyone interested in reviewing this for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social should contact me by email. tinyurl.com/4wtjay4d

Playwright Winsome Pinnock on 'The Slave Ship' by JMW Turner (1840) which inspired her play 'Rockets & Blue Lights'; the play is about to open at Tower Theatre, London (shorturl.at/ODDB8 ): "Many... think" the painting "is about the Zong massacre" [which led to Lord Mansfield's ruling] "but...

CALL FOR REVIEWERS: This yr is 250 yrs not just from birth of Austen but also painter JMW Turner. Our arts ed @drelenacooper.bsky.social would be interested in ideas for reviews of recent arts productions responding to legal themes in Turner's work & one idea is ... (see thread👇) ...

How does humanities concept of 'master plot' help us better to understand law's priorities & blindspots? How do law's 'master plots' in turn find their way into creative writing e.g. prisoners' poetry? My take on qus posed by new @routledgelaw.bsky.social book, eds Bevan & Gurnham: shorturl.at/p5udf

Law & Humanities NEW ISSUE 👇Articles by W MacNeil @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social B Ellrod S Young A De Spiegeleir A Mus D Iwan-Sojka & A Depta. Editorial by D Gurnham co-authored with arts & books reviews editors (@drelenacooper.bsky.social & M Nicolini) tinyurl.com/y2k7pajc

"Our arts reviews matter not just individually but also collectively in connections they create between cultural works" Gurnham, Cooper & Nicolini, Editorial to Issue 25(1) @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. What does it mean to do this at present moment: advent of AI saturated cultural world?...

OUT NOW: New Issue of @law-and-humanities.bsky.social! Do check out the 3 Arts Reviews: fiction, visual art & dance; interdisciplinary collaborations; new scholars too. See the editorial for details👇(in conversation with @sophiedoherty.bsky.social's arts review in last Issue) shorturl.at/ZZXCO

CALL FOR REVIEWER(S): “After the Act”: ‘electrifying’ musical about s.28 at Royal Court, London, 21 May-15 June; thanks to Royal Court we have free ticket! Interested scholars from our @law-and-humanities.bsky.social community should contact @drelenacooper.bsky.social by email tinyurl.com/2dt6npbc

NEW ARTS REVIEW: 'Performing Spacial Justice in the Shadow of Grenfell'. Dr Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social delves deep into significance of testimony when brought into theatrical space: Gillian Slovo's @nationaltheatre.org.uk play 'Grenfell: in the Words of Survivors': shorturl.at/Q4BQx

Blog by our Arts Editor👇 "our arts reviews, in forging new connections between original scholarship & cultural sphere, & in individually & collectively creating a cultural record formed through a scholarly mantle, are an exciting strand of our dynamic interdisciplinary field." @martailj.bsky.social

NEW ARTS REVIEW: “the most Kafkaesque achievement of this stellar exhibition is to keep its response to the qu of Kafka incomplete” Dr Lindsay Stern reviews recent ‘Kafka: Making of an Icon’ exhibition Morgan Library NYC, originally @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yc5s33wt

New article from Marett Leiboff and Sean Mulcahy uses theatrical jurisprudence to critique legal judgments on a man's claim to have been discriminated against by being refused entry into the 'Ladies Lounge' art installation in Tasmania: available here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

ARTS REVIEW coming soon in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social: @eepwrites.bsky.social on 'Grenfell in Words of Survivors' by G Slovo @nationaltheatre.org.uk: ‘witness testimony… in theatre’ becomes ‘more powerful narrative’; ‘what these words can/should be used to do…to seek justice.’ shorturl.at/KraPh

"Abseiling lesbians! Queers in the classroom! Moral panic in the streets! & an act of oppression that inspired a generational riot." That's @royalcourt.bsky.social blurb for the musical 'After the Act' re s.28 LGA 1988; singing & dancing we cover @law-and-humanities.bsky.social: shorturl.at/ejIWc

THEATRE NEWS: Olivier Awards 2025: Best Actor nominees inc Adrien Brody, 'Fear of 13', Donmar London: 'how a routine traffic stop turned into a conviction for murder' & '22 yrs on Death Row.' We've got this covered @law-and-humanities.bsky.social: review coming soon by @agatafijalkow.bsky.social

Who takes 'responsibility' when judges are called upon to apply an unjust law against people who, like Josef K., have done nothing wrong? NEW ARTICLE by Professors Lukas van den Berge and Jeanne Gaakeer reconsiders a Dutch legal scandal and #Kafka's The Trial doi.org/10.1080/1752...

NEW ARTICLE OUT NOW: 'queer contracts' and 'sea-changed' men in early modern times... Agnese Palumbo explores homo-social bonds between men at sea and in Shakespeare's maritime plays - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Law & Humanities arts review opportunity for scholars, based in NYC, with interest in law & humanities lens on work of Jane Austen 👇 Pls contact our Arts Reviews editor @drelenacooper.bsky.social

What new insights do we gain re Kafka’s view of law, when The Trial is absent? All explored by the simply brilliant Lindsay Stern in a highly original forthcoming @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts review. Looking forward to getting this online soon & in our forthcoming Kafka Special Issue.