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

  • Through a Comedic Glass, Darkly: Ethics, Humor, and Home Ownership in Spain’s Early Technocratic Years (1957–1963)
    by Diana Roxana Jorza
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. The current essay analyzes three oppositional film comedies produced during Franco’s totalitarian regime, after Spain transitioned to an Opus Dei technocratic rule and after the Ministry of Housing was created to solve the chronic lodging problems of the time. My analysis focuses on how La vida por […]
  • Kid Pro Quo: Re-Imagining the Role of Empathy in Ownership and Law
    by Cara Linley
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. The law and literature tradition has to date largely focused on texts that directly explore a legal issue or an encounter with a bureaucratic legal institution. Post-apocalyptic texts describing worlds with no central legal institutions have largely been left unexamined even though they often envisage alternate forms […]
  • Soviet (In)finite Jest: Leonid Yengibarov’s Pantomime and State Erasure
    by Arpi Movsesian
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This article presents Leonid Yengibarov’s innovations to Soviet pantomime and the ways in which his interdisciplinarity prompted philosophical reflection and dialogue. Yengibarov’s performances emphasized the tragicomic, a move away from traditional clowning and toward the recognition of and reflection on ethical responsibility. This unconventionality marked him as […]

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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