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

  • Nationism and John Quincy Adams’ Argument in the Amistad Case, or “Who Speaks for the Nation?”
    by Linda MyrsiadesWest Chester University College of Arts and Humanities, USA
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. Eleven years after he completed his one-term presidency, John Adams argued the slave trade caseAmistad(1841) before the U.S. Supreme Court. A variety of historical judgments have been rendered on his speech, none of which has engaged with the argument’s …
  • Crises of Authority
    by Mila Versteeg, Emily Zackin
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. Constitutional scholars have long observed that the term “constitutional crisis” is overused. Pundits and scholars routinely use it to describe constitutional developments that they view as normatively undesirable. But doing so may hurt our ability to …
  • Moving Beyond the Symptom: Postcritical Turn in Critical Legal Studies
    by Dennis WassoufMasaryk University, Czech Republic
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. The “crisis of critique” reveals tensions between ideological critique and postcritical methods in the humanities. This article argues that postcritique is not a distinct movement but a political reorientation within critique itself. By examining this …

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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