Law and Popular Culture

There are a few quotes about the law that sum up an entire philosophy. This one I encountered early on in my international law career, and in the first book on international law that I ever [...]

I like to watch American Football. The New York Jets in particular, which is a painful experience every time. And throughout my viewing career I have had to explain myself to my friends. And [...]

As you may have noticed, lawyers tend to be sensitive to whatever non-lawyers say about law. In general. People say the darnedest things, often inaccurate and sometimes inadvertently wise. When I [...]

Swiss jurist Max Huber (1874-1960) only really came into focus when writing on this blog about the Lotus– and Island of Palmas cases. Looking further into him (shout out to issue 1 of the [...]

I am not one for science fiction when alien life forms are involved. With the possible exception of some Star Wars and Star Trek movies, and now The Martian. This story is impressive and is told [...]

And we move along to the third and final part of the mini-series about favorite movie scenes about law. Any connection between these last two movie scenes is tenuous, but it could be this: In [...]

Admittedly, I am a Mark Twain novice, and I stumbled on this quote accidentally. As I said in my very first post on this blog, I intend to read some Twain. But I haven’t gotten to it yet. In any [...]

At a conference in Florence a few years ago I saw a small crowd gathered around something. As the crowded parted, a smallish woman came towards me who I did not recognize immediately, but she [...]

When I was still an assistant professor – with an emphasis on teaching – I loved movies about college professors. So, naturally, one comes to the movie that I am about to review. ’The [...]