In the first of our articles marking 100 years of The Trial, Wojciech Engelking uses Kelsen's pure theory of law to address some of The Castle's intractable mysteries: where did K. come from? What happened to his wife and children? Why is he so consumed by his role as a land-surveyor?!

Grenfell in the news today: survivors/community voice concerns re dismantling Tower when justice/legal responsibility unresolved. In Law and Humanities Journal we will be unpacking these issues through lens of arts production: National Theatre play by Gillian Slovo tinyurl.com/bderbeuh

Can a work of literature also be a primary source of law? Yes, argues Arvind Thomas in his book 'Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages' Piers Plowman Society Piers Plowman reviewed for us by John C. Gooch, available now...👇doi.org/10.1080/175214…

On my desk: 1st of 3 Law and Humanities Journal arts reviews exploring Kafka’s legacy in law & arts: scholars review arts responses to Kafka’s lens on law, in visual art, drama, doc exhibition, in India, NYC & Germany; reviews inspired by David Gurnham & K Yahyaoui’s fab 2024 Kafka event 🌟

New article! 'The Union of India: Bodily Unity in Indian Law and Literature' has just been published in Law and Literature. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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 Lukas van den Berge and Jeanne Gaakeer Erasmus School of Law reconsiders a Dutch legal scandal and #Kafka's The Trial doi.org/10.1080/175214…

ARTS REVIEW coming soon in Law and Humanities Journal: Emma Patchett on ‘Grenfell in Words of Survivors’ by Gillian Slovo National Theatre: ‘witness testimony … in theatre’ becomes ‘more powerful narrative’; ‘what these words can/should be used to do…to seek justice.’ tinyurl.com/5n7nn6pm

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/10.1080/175214…

“It’s a legal matter you see…” “The British Museum Act” “So then you know. Our board of trustees, their hands are tied. I mean it’s not pretty but it’s a finicky law.” But who is talking to whom? Find out Royal Court 👇new play by Joel Tan. Review online soon in Law and Humanities Journal

NEW ARTS REVIEW: “the most Kafkaesque achievement of this stellar exhibition is to keep its response to the qu of Kafka incomplete” Lindsay Stern reviews recent ‘Kafka: Making of an Icon’ exhibition The Morgan (originally Bodleian Libraries Barry Murnane): tinyurl.com/yc5s33wt

New issue out now, articles from James Greenwood-Reeves Law's a Drag, Stephen Young, William P. MacNeil, Anna Muś, and editorial from David Gurnham Dr Elena Cooper & Matteo Nicolini, with news of our Exeter Law School event Jane Austen's Legal World Rebecca Jane Probert tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New book on 'masterplots' in law, edited by Chris Bevan NUS and I. Thanks to all our lovely contributors (including Graeme Hayes, Ekaterina Yahyaoui Irish Centre for Human Rights, Rebecca Jane Probert), SLSA, and Colin Perrin Colin Perrin, Routledge Books, IALS, U. of London University of Southampton Law School

Very excited to be travelling to Exeter Law School for the Law and Humanities Journal Roundtable 2025 'Jane Austen's Legal World' tomorrow. Convened by Rebecca Jane Probert & with our arts editor Dr Elena Cooper in attendance too #JaneAusten Full programme: sites.exeter.ac.uk/lawbulletin/20…

Tallulah Lines Centre for Applied Human Rights in her new article: "arts-based responses to femicidal violence offer an opportunity to cultivate recognition, repair, dignity, voice, and agency" #LawAndArt #WomensArt Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 Sonja Wolf, PhD Dr Sophie Doherty Full text here: doi.org/10.1080/175214…

"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 Roo Bernatek on an experience of prison Captive Arts Warwick Sociology Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New essay by Chi Ying Lam Music at Southampton Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities 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*: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"a better world must first be imagined before it can be created" ... a new article from Diksha Kale Carleton Law and Legal Studies considers the utopian potential of fiction for queer and racialised people. #uptopia #SocialJustice #fiction Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article by Henrique Carvalho explores the importance of violence in the aesthetics of UK drill and its criminalization: two imaginaries "bound together" in a way that "goes beyond semiotic interpretation" Warwick Law School #ukdrill check it out here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Do prisoner arts constitute a genre, and what features distinguish them as such? Anastasia Chamberlen Warwick Sociology examines the issue; focuses on the 2023 Koestler Arts exhibition curated by joelle taylor for the Southbank Centre Captive Arts Clinks - doi.org/10.1080/175214…

'Planting of countries is like planting of woods. (Sir Francis Bacon, 1601)' Discuss. Metaphors abound in Prof Matteo Nicolini's new article on the 17thC transplantation of English law to America👉 doi.org/10.1080/175214… - Università di Verona Newcastle Law School is leaving X Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice Virginia Museum of History & Culture