Law, Culture and the
Humanities Journal

A publication of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities

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LCH Journal

Law, Culture and the Humanities is a publication of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. It is co-sponsored by the Socio-Legal Research Centre at Griffith University (Australia) and Amherst College (USA) and is published three times a year. 

This interdisciplinary journal publishes high quality work at the intersection of scholarship on law, culture and the humanities. It provides an outlet for people engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically oriented legal scholarship. The mission of Law, Culture and the Humanities is to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity and values, authority, obligation, justice and law’s place in culture.

Crossing traditional divides to reflect the diverse nature of this exciting area, the scope of Law, Culture and the Humanities includes:

  • Legal history
  • Legal theory and jurisprudence
  • Law and cultural studies
  • Law and literature
  • Legal hermeneutics

From our Latest Issue

  • Where Can I Find Justice? The Changing Relationship Between the Courthouse and the City
    by Mattias Kärrholm, Eva Löfgren
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. After a long period of being constructed as anonymous administration complexes, first instance courts are once again being built as emblematic elements of the city, designed by renowned architects and rising on central plots adjacent to train stations, …
  • Constitutional Economy in Crisis?
    by Carol J. GreenhousePrinceton University, USA
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This commentary offers ethnographic reflections on the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion inTrump v. United States, the July 2024 ruling that gave then-former President Trump and all future presidents immunity from criminal prosecution for certain categories …
  • Exercising Divine Justice? Medieval versus Modern Perspectives on Future Dangerousness and the Death Penalty
    by Susan R. KramerUnaffiliated Scholar, USA
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has increasingly privileged religious beliefs in determining the applicability of U.S. laws. To sustain these claims, the Court has turned to the distant past. This paper explores a medieval parallel to the Texas “…

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Editorial Board

EDITOR

Austin Sarat, Departments of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst, College, USA

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Jennifer Culbert, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Susan Sage Heinzelman, English, University of Texas, USA
James Martel, Political Science, San Francisco State University, USA
Keally McBride, University of San Francisco
Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac Law School, USA
William MacNeil, Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia
Karl Shoemaker, Department of History and School of Law, University of Wisconsin, USA