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

  • Taking the Law for a Walk
    by Serene Richards
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This paper situates the existential stakes implied in Peter Goodrich’s oeuvres. A plea to an embodied, affective use of law, use of the body, by way of a minor jurisprudence attentive to desire and the phantasms, or images, that make up our world. Exemplified, as I suggest, […]
  • Law as Mnemonic Infrastructure: Archival Legal Discourses and Memory Battles in Romania
    by Mihaela Şerban
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This article examines law as mnemonic infrastructure, tracing how archival laws and policies in Romania shape the construction of its collective memory of communism and fascism. The four layers analyzed here—archival institutions, norms, processes, and practices—help produce a memory regime characterized by nationalism, the securitization of historical […]
  • Law on the Other Side of Oedipus: Freud and Lacan on Law and Self-Formation
    by Daniel Hourigan
    Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print. This article investigates the place of law in the Oedipus complex set out by Sigmund Freud and its later revision by Jacques Lacan. Few accounts of self-formation have been as widely recognised and discussed as the Oedipus complex. Yet the tensions that Freud recovered from Sophocles’ Oedipus […]

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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