Law, Culture and the
Humanities Journal

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

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Law, Culture and the Humanities is published by SAGE Publications.

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

  • Professor Tomlins as . . . Contemporary
    by Peter Goodrich
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. A contribution to a festschrift for Professor Christopher Tomlins, this essay will laud the name of Tomlins – a variant of Thomas – and then follow a recent trajectory in his thought, the pursuit of the contemporary.
  • Origins of the French State of Emergency – Between Coloniality and Repression
    by Louis Marius Bremond
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. In 1955 was voted a new exceptional regime, the State of Emergency, at the beginning of the Algerian war of independence. The regime allowed the administration to take repressive measures against the population in order to face crises. It became the main …
  • Book Review: Constitutionalism and Its Discontents
    by Mathilde Cohen
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print.

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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