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

  • Laughter in the Courts of Law: On Riss’s Graphic Report on the Papon Trial
    by Yasco Horsman
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This essay studies a minor genre often overlooked in the literature addressed to how historical trials are represented, discussed and remediated by cultural texts (such as films, novels, theatrical plays): graphic trial reports, representations of historical trials in the form of comics. Its focus is on the […]
  • Fritz Lang’s M – An Other among Us
    by Jacopo Martire
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. M is one of the most celebrated movies by Fritz Lang. Examining the movie as a ‘jurisprudential text’, the present article will explore three interconnected problems: how in modern mass society, the legal gaze works as a device that both traces and tracks the subject within the […]
  • Legal Aesthesis: Affect, Space and Encounter
    by Daniel Matthews
    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