Marking the 250th anniversary of The US Declaration of Independence, this powerful free exhibition charts the emergence of the United States of America.

This is a preprint draft of a contribution to the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern (London: Elgar, 2025), 104-0

Collaborative forums connecting early-career scholars across the UK to explore interdisciplinary approaches to law and the humanities.

Explores the diverse applications of narrative in law beyond the courtroom, from client-lawyer interactions to legal decisionsOnce regarded by law professors as serving an ornamental purpose in legal ...

Jessica Parks is a judge, a mother, a wife, a friend. Her career exists inter alia (among other things). How will one unthinkable event pull into question all aspects of her life? Following their gl...

Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2026)

The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of the legal ‘masterplot’. There is a class of narrative, sometimes referred to as ‘masterplot’ or ‘metanarrative’, that stands above the plethora of other stories, plots, and myths that may be found in law. This book focuses on the masterplot concept as providing a productive yet largely under-explored way of seeing, understanding, and responding to legal controversies a

The IHA Legal Humanities WG is co-organising an event at Trinity College Dublin for the annual Law and Humanities Roundtable which is taking place in Ireland for the first time…

Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2026)

A contemporary family wakes up in a Greek myth and can't seem to find a way out of their hellish destiny. Writer and director Simon Stone is joined by the same creative team that brought the "fantasti...

British contemporary sculptor Nicola Anthony. A rising star, Nicola's artwork can be found in museums, galleries, public collections and collector's homes across the world. Her UK studio has a selecti...

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

Collaborative forums connecting early-career scholars across the UK to explore interdisciplinary approaches to law and the humanities.

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...

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...

Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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

Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.

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...

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...

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. ...

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...