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

  • Constitutional Crisis, Constitutional Nostalgia
    by Jack Jackson
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This essay argues that the unfolding constitutional crisis in the United States is best understood as being marked by both constitutional disintegration and constitutional counter-revolution. In response, many liberals have cultivated a nostalgia for a …
  • Personifying the Rule of Law: Warren Hastings and the Cultural Trials of Corporate Sovereignty
    by Aditya Banerjee
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This commentary examines how the figure of Warren Hastings came to personify the contradictions of imperial rule of law under the British East India Company. At once a mercantile corporation and an imperial regime, the Company blurred the boundaries …
  • The Roots of Private Property: Native Vegetation Laws and Murder in The Winter Road
    by Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung, Amelia Dale
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This article explores the conflict between private property rights and environmentalism through Kate Holden’s true-crime narrativeThe Winter Road, which recounts the murder of environmental officer Glen Turner by farmer Ian Turnbull. Framing this tragedy …

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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