Resources
Compiled by
Professor Daniel J. Solove
Literature About Law
A List of Literary Works About Law
This webpage contains a list of works of literature with legal themes.
Bibliography of Law & Literature Scholarship
Chronological (early 1980s — present)
This bibliography consists of of a chronological listing of law and literature scholarship from the early 1980s to the present.
This bibliography consists of law and literature scholarship about particular writers and their literary works.
Website and Online Materials
Literature
Law in Popular Culture Collection
The Tarlton Library at Texas Law School contains a terrific set of resources about law, literature, and popular culture.
It also contains an extensive collection of free online articles about law and literature.
This website contains an annotated text of Billy Budd with hyperlinks to explanations of key terms. It also contains useful background information, such as a guide to allusions in the text, nautical terms, British warships, and more. It has some good pictures of the warships of the period.
Google has a searchable online collection of all of Shakespeare’s works.
Professor Christine Corcos of LSU Law School has a great collection of law and literature resources, including bibliographies, links to resources on specific authors, and more.
Film and Television
Lawyers and the Legal Process in Movies
Contains a list of movies with legal themes along with brief summaries and useful links.
Contains brief articles about law and popular culture by Michael Asimow, Christine Corcos, John Denvir, Shuba Ghosh, and David Papke.
Law in Popular Culture Collection
The Tarlton Library at Texas Law School contains a terrific set of resources about law, literature, and popular culture.
It contains a bibliography (with several texts available for free online) of scholarly works about law and popular culture, primarily about televison and film.
The Southwestern University Law Library has an extensive list of films with legal themes.
An Annotated List of Law & Film
Professor Christine Corocos ( LSU Law School) has an annotated list of films about the law.
Humanities and Culture
The Chronicle of Higher Education maintains a website with daily links about literary books and scholarship.
This blog Alfredo Perez has a daily dose of dozens of links to articles about a wide range of political and humanities topics.
Trials
Professor Douglas Linder of UMKC School of Law has fascinating detailed descriptions of famous trials, with pictures, bibliographies, and useful links. Some of the trials include: Socrates, Thomas More, John Peter Zenger, Lizzie Borden, Oscar Wilde, Leopold and Loeb, Nuremberg, Scottsboro, O.J. Simpson, and more.
Journals
YALE JOURNAL OF LAW & THE HUMANITIES
LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES
Law & Humanities Course Syllabi
Law School Courses
E. Perry Hodges
Indiana Law School
Law & Literature
Spring 2006
Daniel J. Solove
GW Law School
Law & Literature
Spring 2006
James Boyle
Duke Law School
Law & Literature
Spring 2005
Dean Catharine Stimpson & Stephen Gillers
NYU Law School
Law & Literature
Fall 2004
Patricia Anne Wise
U. Toledo Law School
Law & Literature
Spring 2006
Mary Ann McGrail
George Mason Law School
Law & Literature
Fall 2005
Norman Stein
University of Alabama Law School
Law & Literature
Fall 2003
James Elkins
West Virginia University College of Law
Lawyers & Film
Fall 2005
James Elkins
West Virginia University College of Law
Lawyers & Literature
Spring 2006
Undergraduate Courses
David Thomas
Michigan University
Law & Literature: The Victorians
Fall 2003
Greg Clingham
Bucknell University
Law and Literature, 1689-1832
Spring 2003
Julie Van Camp
California State University, Long Beach
Law, Philosophy, and the Humanities
Fall 2005
Chris Suggs
John Jay College/CUNY
African American Literature and American Law