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.

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

  • by Megan Beatrice
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. There is a certain nexus between art and crime; while crime has long served as inspiration for artistic expression, this paper argues that visual representations of women and discourses of sex and violence within specific art movements also serve as inspiration for violent crime. Bridging the gap […]
  • by Dominic DeBrincat
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. In colonial America, governments relied on county court judges to render justice and maintain order. To be effective, judges needed wisdom to administer three diverse sources of authority: God’s law, English common law, and provincial statutory law. This article uses one colonial tribunal—Connecticut’s New London County Court—to […]
  • by Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. Rajkumar Hirani’s film Dunki (2023) takes its name from an immigration method that is popular among undocumented immigrants originating from states such as Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat in India. Using this film as a case study, this article critiques immigration and visa laws that engender methods of […]

Submission Details

Have an article you think would be good for the journal? We encourage submissions at the intersection of scholarship on law, culture and the humanities.

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