Launched first at UTS Sydney in 2024, I've enjoyed keeping in touch with the great law & humanities brains behind this fab dynamic & ever changing intertwinement of sonic-art and legal method. Well done to Shane, Joy and colleagues! I will try to make it to Manchester if I can! 👏🌟

Playwrights’ estates and publishers have been left in the lurch by the “disappearance” of a London-based literary agency, which now looks set to dissolve after allegedly being unresponsive for years. Read more 👇

My new article, 'User Perspectives on T&Cs in Virtual Worlds' is published! www.elgaronline.com/view/journal... A sociolegal empirical work examining users’ understanding, motivation, and compliance with T&Cs in a persistent online community. More over at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A short piece of mine for @wipo.int - Street Art, Graffiti and Intellectual Property: Who Owns Art on the Walls? www.wipo.int/en/web/econo... #streetart #grafitti #copyright

'The Founders' Design for IP': "How did Constitution break with British common law? Why did Framers embed IP rights in Constitution itself rather than Bill of Rights? What does it mean that the provision passed without recorded controversy? How healthy are those rights today?" 11 June, 5pm UK time 👇

📣 Next week, Dr Elena Cooper (@drelenacooper.bsky.social) will be speaking at the conference accompanying the current Whistler exhibition at #Tate #Britain, the first major European exhibition of Whistler’s work in 30 years. @tate.bsky.social Full programme 👉 www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

New issue marks 100 years since first publication of Kafka's brilliant unfinished novel 'The Castle': guest editorial (Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko) and all research articles, essays, arts and book reviews now available on the website: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exclusive: In a Suffolk prison, inmates have been taking part in workshops to prepare them for careers in theatre. The Stage was invited in to find out what the scheme, called Second Stage, has meant to the participants. Read more 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/new...

Really looking forward to chairing this online talk on TM history by the brilliant historian of photography Dr Michael Pritchard 👇

Just spotted this incredible portrait 👇in a far corner of the house at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: the 19th century novelist Caroline Norton by George Hayter, 1835; learned, distinguished & dignified. A woman who campaigned for legal change & became the sitter for justice murals in Westminster. 🌟

‘What is art but the capacity to join words together to create character, or conjure sounds from solid objects to make music, or smear paint on a canvas to make images?’ director Richard Eyre discussing The Tempest, now on at the RSC, Stratford Upon Avon, starring Kenneth Branagh 🌟 simply brilliant!

NEW ARTS REVIEW: Sarah Hook reviews Grey Lines, a visual-art exhibition exploring inter-relation of art & law in tattooing curated by tattooist A McDade & @drmarieip.bsky.social: how does tattooing ‘live’ within the ‘grey lines’ set by legally inspired tattoo-community norms? tinyurl.com/mtapxcap

I was at the new @welshnattheatre.bsky.social’s debut play ‘Our Town’ earlier this yr, & now watching the new programme with interest tinyurl.com/4md8y4wp

Continuing my dive into @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts articles. I loved Rex Ferguson’s 2010 piece on Ford Madox Ford’s 1915 novel The Good Soldier: charting shifts in narrative voice & relating to the criminal trial, Ford’s narrator is more like an accused, & his reader like expert witness…

Our Arts Editor was delighted to join the 1st of the law & humanities ECR forums, to be held in each of the UK’s four Nations this summer; today was the Scotland meet convened by @uofglaw.bsky.social’s Prof Marco Goldoni 👇more about @ials.bsky.social’s ‘4 nations’ forums here 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8x6n9z

Booked my place & I'll be in the audience! I'm looking forward to hearing my talented CREATe colleagues debating the latest interdisciplinary perspectives on this important topic. 👏

Well done Amy! Looking forward to reading this!

David Morrissey, Mary-Louise Parker, Tom Glynn-Carney and Rosie Sheehy are to star in Simon Stone’s The Oresteia. Read more 👇

Continuing my dive into past arts pieces in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social: in 2010(2) Patrick Hanafin unravels the Italian novel Isolina by Dacia Maraini; adapting narrative genre of ‘inchiesta’, Maraini gives voice to Isolina, victim of fatal/violent backstreet abortion forced by military lover…

Mayerling by Kenneth Macmillan now at Royal Opera House; a ballet that revolutionised dance language, reinventing pas de deux as site for dark yet intense emotion & playing out complex psychological sexual attraction, repulsion & destruction. Much for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social to contemplate 🤔

ARTS NEWS: @ruthhoughton.bsky.social will review 'The Words that Bind Us' (staged by @durhamcathedral.bsky.social) for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social: a light installation by sculptor Nicola Anthony, interweaving text with visual/sensory experience, responding to Magna Carta tinyurl.com/4fxd5vke

Lucky me to be seeing Mayerling this weekend @royaloperahouse.bsky.social with a fab dance/law scholar 🩰⚖️ “An intoxicating mix of dangerous desires, family secrets & political intrigue spirals into a royal disaster in Kenneth MacMillan’s psychologically thrilling ballet...” 👌

Another dive into past arts scholarship in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social: I loved Stella Bruzzi’s ‘Imperfect Justice’ in 2010, 4(1) re the film ‘Fury’ by Fritz Lang (1936), long neglected by scholars, reverses usual Hollywood trial: the individual, not the system, has the power to deliver justice…

"Brunelleschi's Dome" 👇 today a tourist draw, but I'm reflecting on its role in shift from communal guild property in architectural techniques to individual ingenuity owned by an 'autore' in 1400s discussed by J Kostylo in Primary Sources on Copyright 👉 tinyurl.com/2pr9kcdn tinyurl.com/mry4ypm9

“what cannot be said out loud, can sometimes be danced”. My fav quote from latest @thestage.co.uk magazine which puts dance in focus 👇so many perspectives that feed into @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts work, inc innovative new Macbeth ballet by choreographer Akram Kahn: tinyurl.com/2th6b67h

Continuing my dive into @law-and-humanities.bsky.social back issues: last wk, I noted Watt/Raffield identified 'performance art' as the paradigmatic art-form for L&H arts reviews in editorial 2007 1:1; this wk I stay with theatre: Derbyshire & @lovedayh.bsky.social 'Performing Injustice' 2008 2:2...

"Is this moving the conversation forward? Is this getting closer to unknotting some of the big questions in our society – the big questions at the heart of what it is to be human?" David Byrne, artistic director @royalcourt.bsky.social on being "ahead of public taste" in theatre tinyurl.com/bddc8bhs

“right here, where we live… it’s a really intense time, but that’s what literature is for, that’s what art is for, to make sense of moments in time like this one”, from the play ‘John Proctor is the Villain’, now on at the brilliant @royalcourt.bsky.social ⭐️

As L&H approaches 20yrs next yr, I have been tracing its arts scholarship 🎭💃🎨⚖️ & there is no other place to start than the 1st editorial, 1(1), 2007 by Watt & Raffield: D Hare’s @nationaltheatre.org.uk play Stuff Happens, on Iraq War, as part of long tradition of theatrical debate of juristic ideas…

From today’s Observer Magazine 👇& Macgregor continues “the responsibility of art” is “to push people out of their comfort zones - not just to entertain, but to provoke thought and questioning”; 1st performance of Mayerling as presenting “a language that was unfamiliar & challenged an audience”

She's up for an Olivier tonight for Inter Alia, but what is S Miller working on next? “I’m looking at what jurors bring into the jury room ...a slice of 12 different lives... how they come together ... different kinds of intellectual capacity, political leanings, race, gender” tinyurl.com/5akbynht

Event on Shakespeare's 1st Folio @stationerscomms.bsky.social👇 the history of the 'copy' is, of course, intertwined with the history of copy-right - & Stationers' Co records, for Shakespeare's period, are searchable through the CREATe online resource here 👉 tinyurl.com/59paezz5 tinyurl.com/2emtrk27

OUT NOW: @lawtextculture.bsky.social: Moscati & Mucahy, Dance/Law Special Issue. Love the editorial intro: collaborative dance-infused editorial conversations ❤️ Not sure I can persuade the editors @law-and-humanities.bsky.social to do the same 🙃 but I will be 🤔on these points... tinyurl.com/nhzbadce

W Pinnock's new @nationaltheatre.org.uk play The Authenticator: "ebullient drama" re "2 Black academics authenticating" an enslaver's 18th-cent diaries. & watch this space for the fab @kalimurray.bsky.social on Pinnock's Rockets and Blue Lights in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdh4nufd

As I edit S Hook's @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts review of 'Grey Lines' on tattooing by @drmarieip.bsky.social & A McDade, I was drawn to the below: connection between client/tattooist, which shapes copying norms in 'Grey Lines', is here reflected in architectural designs tinyurl.com/43kh6m9e

Well done to Imperial War Museum on their current exhibition ‘Emergency Exits’ re power and British colonial rule in 1950s; open until end of the month 👇

‘Think of your least interesting day, & that is interesting enough’ @welshnattheatre.bsky.social ‘s debut drama immerses us in ordinary life of communities whose voices have been long forgotten. Ensemble drama at its best, indicative of deep community values of this theatre co 👏 @mchshe.bsky.social

@law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts review on my desk re 'Grey Lines' curated by @drmarieip.bsky.social & A McDade: exhibition, set in a mock tattoo parlour, immerses its viewing public in norms of creativity & ownership in tattooing. Dr S Hook UTS reviews: coming soon for L&H tinyurl.com/fr4ztre3

Lucky me to be in Southampton yesterday for the reopening of its Gallery! Fab show by Southampton’s own Emma Richardson juxtaposed with city’s own historic collection; I will be speaking in Sept about two 19th cent paintings not on display, which, in my view, speak to themes explored by Richardson

Optical research 🧐 really looking forward to presenting before this painting - Salvador Dali’s Christ of St John on the Cross, in Kelvingrove - this November, as part of Encounters with Art, Glasgow.

"How George Devine’s English Stage Company paved the way for the Royal Court" tinyurl.com/mu9nzech

Reading @kalimurray.bsky.social's essay re 18th cent enslavement & TM law 👇but also (as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Ed) Iinking Murray's use of literary theories of spectre & phantom to Winsome Pinnock's 'hauntology' in playwriting (see podcast at 13': shorturl.at/m71KW) shorturl.at/badOa

I am so excited to present @create-glasgow.bsky.social, at the kind invitation of @drelenacooper.bsky.social on my ongoing project of examining trademark law’s relationship to enslavement. This is part of my larger project of examining categories of Despostic information in intellectual property.

Delighted to be chairing the Trade Mark History strand of this series. @kalimurray.bsky.social on (Un)free Trade: Captive Histories of Trademark Law: how an understanding of enslavement’s 18th century history, can illuminate fresh perspectives on trade mark law and its history. 👇online: 11 March 2pm

Fab talk 👇 "whether legal history has any direct relevance to the state of public law today" re sovereignty of Parliament. "There may be something to learn from way Coke interpreted the sovereignty of the king... if a way can be found to reconcile such ideas with our present notions of democracy."

As @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor, I am drawn to this line; powerful in view of art that informs L&H (art that engages with legal themes): Anger “‘is a means of affectively registering or appreciating the injustice of the world’, comparable to our exercise of aesthetic judgment.”

“In this lecture Lee Miller’s son Antony Penrose talks about why his mother responded to the Holocaust in the way she did & the work he has done to authenticate her evidence as a witness – evidence she deliberately left us in the hope it would help prevent history repeating.” tinyurl.com/2tcxr7sh

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

Proving that where there’s a good archive, there’s a story and it will always be authentic, always original: recent Liszt Institute lecture by the brilliant photo historian Dr Michael Pritchard now available online 👇 kraszna-krausz.org.uk/teaching-the...

On my way to RSA - home of 19th cent copyright reform - re @create-glasgow.bsky.social funded digital legal history resource: Stationers’ Register Online 1557-1640 led by English scholars Ian Gadd & Giles Bergel, which has changed book historians’ understandings of Shakespeare 👉 tinyurl.com/2y6m8y58