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Adam Hanna @adamhanna.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! £24, so a bit easier on your library budgets

Adam Hanna is Lecturer in Irish Literature in the Department of English at University College Cork.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣Comrades! 📣
The videos from our 2025 Law & Marxism Spring School are on our YouTube Channel! 📽️
Watch and share with your networks!!!

EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene - youtu.be/j6MApCcKHHo

Law & Marxism Spring School 2025 - EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene

YouTube video by Centre for Law & Social Change

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Aug 18

"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 Ruth Bernatek @sociowarwick.bsky.social on an experience of prison @saulhewish.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Embodying Kevin A: notes on identity, creativity & prison

I have only ever known one Kevin, and only then for a very brief period of time. He is Kevin A., and I met him in prison whilst taking part in an eight-day lyric writing workshop, in early January ...

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Jul 28

Is the legal world really too complicated for any abstraction?
@dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

Pragmatism, Law, and Literature

This book uses literary examples to make the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism. For pragmatists, experience is everything; they argue against...

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Jul 21

ARTS REVIEW: @adiver.bsky.social reviews The Marian Hotel, new play by new playwright C Cunningham, directed by P Byrne Sole Purpose Productions, Lyric Theatre Belfast: "Cunningham’s play is timely... capturing a dark moment in history but also... making a heartfelt call to action" shorturl.at/lkOsG

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Jul 21

Standing at Turner’s view, a painting spot of the great JMW Turner, but what was he thinking when he painted The Slave Ship now in collection of @mfaboston.bsky.social What view of law does this embody? Reflections on this & more coming up in editorial of next @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Issue

Jane Austen's Legal World: Event programme

Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Jul 17

Tallulah Lines @cahr-york.bsky.social in her new article: "arts-based responses to femicidal violence offer an opportunity to cultivate recognition, repair, dignity, voice, and agency" #LawAndArt #WomensArt @sherelemoody.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social Full text here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Jul 10

Very excited to be travelling to @exeter.ac.uk for the Law and Humanities Roundtable 2025 'Jane Austen's Legal World' tomorrow. Convened by @profprobert.bsky.social & with our arts editor @drelenacooper.bsky.social in attendance too #JaneAusten Full programme: sites.exeter.ac.uk/lawbulletin/...

Friday 11 July 2025

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Jun 24

NEW ARTS REVIEW: @kristinhausler.bsky.social reviews ‘Scenes from a Repatriation’, new play by Joel Tan which recently debuted @royalcourt.bsky.social : tinyurl.com/jptak5ha

Scenes from a Repatriation

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Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Jun 23

'The 4 women stare out at the audience. This becomes an accusing glare. Such horrors occur when society sits in silent toleration of systemic degradation.' Powerful review coming soon for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social by @adiver.bsky.social re play The Marian Hotel on forced infant relinquishments

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Jun 16

Exhibition now on: 'Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict', Imperial War Museum, London (until Nov 2025). Anyone interested in reviewing this for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social should contact me by email. tinyurl.com/4wtjay4d

Unsilenced considers the contexts in which sexual violence occurs in conflict, exploring how propaganda shapes perceptions of gender and power to shine a light on the often-silenced issue. 23 May to 2...

Rockets and Blue Lights – The Tower Theatre

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Jun 12

Playwright Winsome Pinnock on 'The Slave Ship' by JMW Turner (1840) which inspired her play 'Rockets & Blue Lights'; the play is about to open at Tower Theatre, London (shorturl.at/ODDB8 ): "Many... think" the painting "is about the Zong massacre" [which led to Lord Mansfield's ruling] "but...

Rockets and Blue Lights – The Tower Theatre

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Jun 12

...the play 'Rockets & Blue Lights' by Winsome Pinnock, which responds to Turner's painting The Slave Ship 👆 'Blue Lights' is about to open at The Tower Theatre, London shorturl.at/fHZii but also available to stream through National Theatre at Home. Please contact @drelenacooper.bsky.social by email

Law, narrative, and masterplot | 2 | An introduction | Chris Bevan, Da

Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Jun 12

CALL FOR REVIEWERS: This yr is 250 yrs not just from birth of Austen but also painter JMW Turner. Our arts ed @drelenacooper.bsky.social would be interested in ideas for reviews of recent arts productions responding to legal themes in Turner's work & one idea is ... (see thread👇) ...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Jun 6

How does humanities concept of 'master plot' help us better to understand law's priorities & blindspots? How do law's 'master plots' in turn find their way into creative writing e.g. prisoners' poetry? My take on qus posed by new @routledgelaw.bsky.social book, eds Bevan & Gurnham: shorturl.at/p5udf

In opening the collection, this chapter unfolds in three parts. Part 1 offers an account of the background to and nature of the concept of ‘masterplot’,

Volume 19, Issue 1 of Law and Humanities

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Jun 5

Law & Humanities NEW ISSUE 👇Articles by W MacNeil @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social B Ellrod S Young A De Spiegeleir A Mus D Iwan-Sojka & A Depta. Editorial by D Gurnham co-authored with arts & books reviews editors (@drelenacooper.bsky.social & M Nicolini) tinyurl.com/y2k7pajc

Law and Humanities

Law and Humanities, issue 19.1 (summer 2025)

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Jun 4

"Our arts reviews matter not just individually but also collectively in connections they create between cultural works" Gurnham, Cooper & Nicolini, Editorial to Issue 25(1) @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. What does it mean to do this at present moment: advent of AI saturated cultural world?...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Jun 4

OUT NOW: New Issue of @law-and-humanities.bsky.social! Do check out the 3 Arts Reviews: fiction, visual art & dance; interdisciplinary collaborations; new scholars too. See the editorial for details👇(in conversation with @sophiedoherty.bsky.social's arts review in last Issue) shorturl.at/ZZXCO

Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2025)

After the Act - Royal Court

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · May 16

CALL FOR REVIEWER(S): “After the Act”: ‘electrifying’ musical about s.28 at Royal Court, London, 21 May-15 June; thanks to Royal Court we have free ticket! Interested scholars from our @law-and-humanities.bsky.social community should contact @drelenacooper.bsky.social by email
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