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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: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
A final post here on 'X' to say we're now leaving this platform for Bluesky... Find us @law-and-humanities.bsky.social, and hope to see you there! @seanamulcahy @legalhistory @HRDCCarvalho @HedgehogsFoxes @joseph_owen_
Many thanks to Róisín Costello, the @IrishHumanities and @tcddublin for hosting tomorrow's Law and Humanities Roundtable 2026: 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature': shorturl.at/sTDkO. Full Programme: shorturl.at/6V1ym
Our banner photo👆by Virginia Rodrigues captures the final scene of Anmol Vellani’s new play Innocence (based on Kafka's The Trial) in its debut run at the Goethe Institute Bangalore, 2024: Leena (Kafka’s Leni) stands tall, ready to assassinate K; image discussed in editorial👆
NEW ARTS REVIEW: Sarah Hook reviews Grey Lines, a visual-art exhibition exploring inter-relation of art & law in tattooing curated by A McDade & M Hadley : how does tattooing ‘live’ within the ‘grey lines’ set by legally inspired tattoo-community norms? tinyurl.com/mtapxcap
Our Arts Editor was delighted to join 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 Uni of Glasgow’s Prof Marco Goldoni 👇more about IALS ‘4 nations’ forums here 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8x6n9z
ARTS NEWS: Dr Ruth Houghton will review 'The Words that Bind Us' (staged by Durham Cathedral) for L&H: a light installation by sculptor Nicola Anthony, interweaving text with visual/sensory experience, responding to Magna Carta tinyurl.com/4fxd5vke
"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?" @mrdavebyrne, @royalcourt on being "ahead of public taste" in theatre 👇 tinyurl.com/bddc8bhs
Starting today, on Bluesky: our Arts Editor dives into L&H back issues, tracing our journal’s contribution to scholarship about the arts since its foundation in 2007; 🎭 💃🎨 ⚖️ Elena would be delighted to connect with you all @drelenacooper.bsky.social
Congrats to Rosamund Pike for an Olivier for Inter Alia. Our Arts Editor
(on Bluesky @drelenacooper.bsky.social)
will be looking for a reviewer later this yr. More about @suzieMillerwrtr's future plans, to write a new play about juries, here: tinyurl.com/5akbynht
CALL FOR PAPERS: LHub's new project: law and humanities in the 'Four Nations', ECR network: forthcoming workshops in England, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland. Fab events for our ECR community 👏 👇tinyurl.com/yrk86hyp
The Choreography of Consent: "experiments in dance/law research, which bring together artists, practitioners and scholars to develop innovative dance and law research methods that explore the movement of consent." Online event on 13th Feb 👇tinyurl.com/2ucnxze5
OUT NOW: Ian Ellison reviews the visual art exhibition 'IIlustrationen zu Franz Kafka' (Regensburg, Germany) exploring rich 'visual afterlife' of a literary author who, while visual in his private creative process, resisted illustration of his work. shorturl.at/Skx0o
Congratulations to new @WelshNatTheatre led by @michaelsheen; we’re watching your work with interest & our Arts Editor @drelena_cooper will be at the @Rosetheatre run of the play in March 👏 we also love the pics of the @SwanseaGrand - a fab new home for creative & critical work
🎭First Performance. Our Town opens at
@SwanseaGrand Theatre tonight, and with it, Welsh National Theatre takes its very first bow. More history being made. We're a bit emotional, to be honest... 🥹
🎭Perfformiad Cyntaf. Mae Our Town yn agor yn Theatr y Grand Abertawe heno, a chyda hynny, mae'r Welsh National Theatre yn perfformio am y tro cyntaf. Mwy o hanes yn cael ei wneud. Rydyn ni braidd yn emosiynol, a dweud y gwir...
"..even in a moment of satisfaction, he is still political. He is an activist as much as an actor. & now, also artistic director of a new national theatre company." The Stage 👇 on @michaelsheen & new @WelshNatTheatre. We are watching with interest! tinyurl.com/4ryed3xm
‘Who owns art?’ Our Arts Editor blogs for the Walker Gallery re Turner 250. As our audience knows, our own banner 👆, integral to the analysis in our latest editorial, is a comment on the enduring law & humanities significance of Turner’s The Slave Ship tinyurl.com/a78xe6w7
ARTS NEWS 👇 Have you seen our Spotlight on Theatre in the latest Issue? Theatre reviews by Dr Kristin Hausler, Dr Emma Patchett & Dr Alice Diver re recent plays which critique social power/injustice @royalcourt @NationalTheatre @LyricBelfast @mrdavebyrne tinyurl.com/3m4ccd7k
'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, @drelena_cooper, who will be attending! @artlawalex tinyurl.com/2w7fcmue
OUT NOW 👇Arts essay by J Owen on adaptations of Kafka's The Trial by Anmol Vellani (the play Innocence) & Ed Harris (radio drama): "Taken together, these recent adaptations reveal why The Trial endures as a critical touchpoint in the twenty-first century" tinyurl.com/3jxvpemx
The first of two new articles by @mauroandthelaw considers the metaphor of the theatre as a way of imagining law as spectacle and structure in Renaissance jurisprudence. @legalhistory @DavidGurnham @LegalHumanities Find it here:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
My two-part article is now out in Law and Humanities! This project has been with me for a long time, and seeing it take shape across two installments feels especially meaningful. Very grateful to Law and Humanities for the space and support! @law_humanities
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