Law and Popular Culture

This is Part Two of an impromptu series on my favorite movie scenes about law, which will now include a scene from a mini-series. Somehow, the best and poignant explanations and dilemmas of law [...]

True story: At a farewell dinner, a colleague  distributed books from his bookshelf among his now former colleagues. He did so based on title only, and he gave me William Gaddis’ ’A Frolic of His [...]

The movies that I pick to review are not necessarily good or bad. Sometimes I wonder why they are considered so good, like ‘Spotlight‘, and others because of the (sometimes [...]

Even as I wrote about current events lately, my research on compliance theory is close to my mind. How or will China comply with the tribunal’s ruling? What does the Chilcot Inquiry tell us about [...]

If I could pick one thing about international law that keeps coming up in cop- and lawyer tv-shows, it’s this: Diplomats and embassies. Why? Because people get frustrated by what you cannot do to [...]

I imagine that every lawyer, international or otherwise, is sensitive to how law and lawyers are portrayed on screen. That portrait is not only painted through whole storylines or devilish [...]

Ten years ago, one of the best television series in history signed off after 7 thrilling seasons. Every political junkie is fan of ’The West Wing’ (TWW), a multiple Emmy Award-winning series [...]

The release of the movie Eye in the Sky was much anticipated in the legal community. In some commentaries and reviews, the movie is sometimes billed as a military drama or a movie about new [...]

Any decent blog regularly posts a Top-whatever list of whatever. So here is mine. Pay attention, because it may be the first and the last one, unless you come up with good list ideas. This list [...]