David Gurnham

ARTS NEWS 👇 Have you seen our Spotlight on Theatre in the latest Issue? Theatre reviews by Dr Kristin Hausler, Dr Emma Patchett & Dr Alice Diver re recent plays which critique social power/injustice @royalcourt @NationalTheatre @LyricBelfast @mrdavebyrne tinyurl.com/3m4ccd7k

OUT NOW 👇Arts essay by J Owen on adaptations of Kafka's The Trial by Anmol Vellani (the play Innocence) & Ed Harris (radio drama): "Taken together, these recent adaptations reveal why The Trial endures as a critical touchpoint in the twenty-first century" tinyurl.com/3jxvpemx

'Art Law in Fiction and Film': event at National Gallery, London, 11am-12pm, Tues 9th Dec, organised by the Art Lawyers' Association. And to our L&H community: if you go, please say 👋 to our Arts Editor, @drelena_cooper, who will be attending! @artlawalex tinyurl.com/2w7fcmue

The first of two new articles by @mauroandthelaw considers the metaphor of the theatre as a way of imagining law as spectacle and structure in Renaissance jurisprudence. @legalhistory @DavidGurnham @LegalHumanities Find it here: #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

CfP: announcing that the 8th L&H Roundtable workshop - 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature' - will be @tcddublin on 19 Jun 2026, convened by Dr Róisín Á Costello. Submit your abstract to Roisin.acostello@tcd.ie by Fri 6 Feb 2026. @adamdhanna @SophieMDoherty @dkennytcd👇

'Planting of countries is like planting of woods. (Sir Francis Bacon, 1601)' Discuss. Metaphors abound in Prof Matteo Nicolini's new article on the 17thC transplantation of English law to America👉 doi.org/10.1080/175214… - @UniVerona @NCLLawSchool @LJMU_LTAP @VirginiaMuseum

Do prisoner arts constitute a genre, and what features distinguish them as such? @a_chamberlen @SocioWarwick examines the issue; focuses on the 2023 @KoestlerArts exhibition curated by @JTaylorTrash for the @southbankcentre @captive_arts @Clinks_Tweets - doi.org/10.1080/175214…

New article by @HRDCCarvalho explores the importance of violence in the aesthetics of UK drill and its criminalization: two imaginaries "bound together" in a way that "goes beyond semiotic interpretation" @Warwick_Law #ukdrill check it out here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"a better world must first be imagined before it can be created" ... a new article from Diksha Kale @cuLegalStudies considers the utopian potential of fiction for queer and racialised people. #uptopia #SocialJustice #fiction Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New essay by Chi Ying Lam @UoSMusic @Soton_SIAH on the experiences of artists displaced from Hong Kong arriving in the UK - addressing questions of 'identity, and the transformative role of creativity in diasporic experiences'. *Read it here*: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Pain of all sorts, and its attendant politics, is particularly evident in the area of the prison where we are working, and where Kevin A. is housed"... New article by @RBernatek on an experience of prison @captive_arts @SocioWarwick Read it here: #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Tallulah Lines @CAHRyork in her new article: "arts-based responses to femicidal violence offer an opportunity to cultivate recognition, repair, dignity, voice, and agency" #LawAndArt #WomensArt @ShereleMoody @scwolf5 @SophieMDoherty Full text here: doi.org/10.1080/175214…

Very excited to be travelling to @ExeterLawSchool for the @law_humanities Roundtable 2025 'Jane Austen's Legal World' tomorrow. Convened by @ProfProbert & with our arts editor @drelena_cooper in attendance too #JaneAusten Full programme: sites.exeter.ac.uk/lawbulletin/20…

New book on 'masterplots' in law, edited by Chris Bevan @NUSingapore and I. Thanks to all our lovely contributors (including @GraemeHayes, Ekaterina Yahyaoui @IrishCentreHR, @ProfProbert), @SLSA_UK, and Colin Perrin @GlassHouseBooks, @routledgebooks, @IALS_law @UoSLawSchool

New issue out now, articles from @jrhgreenwood @lawsadrag, @SteveIsInOtago, William P. MacNeil, Anna Muś, and editorial from @DavidGurnham @drelena_cooper & Matteo Nicolini, with news of our @ExeterLawSchool event Jane Austen's Legal World @ProfProbert tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article! 'The Union of India: Bodily Unity in Indian Law and Literature' has just been published in Law and Literature. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

On my desk: 1st of 3 @law_humanities arts reviews exploring Kafka’s legacy in law & arts: scholars review arts responses to Kafka’s lens on law, in visual art, drama, doc exhibition, in India, NYC & Germany; reviews inspired by @DavidGurnham & K Yahyaoui’s fab 2024 Kafka event 🌟

NEW ARTS REVIEW: “the most Kafkaesque achievement of this stellar exhibition is to keep its response to the qu of Kafka incomplete” @lindsayostern reviews recent ‘Kafka: Making of an Icon’ exhibition @MorganLibrary (originally @bodleianlibs @MurnaneBarry): tinyurl.com/yc5s33wt

“It’s a legal matter you see…” “The British Museum Act” “So then you know. Our board of trustees, their hands are tied. I mean it’s not pretty but it’s a finicky law.” But who is talking to whom? Find out @royalcourt 👇new play by Joel Tan. Review online soon in @law_humanities

ARTS REVIEW coming soon in @law_humanities: @eepwrites on ‘Grenfell in Words of Survivors’ by @GillianSlovo @NationalTheatre: ‘witness testimony … in theatre’ becomes ‘more powerful narrative’; ‘what these words can/should be used to do…to seek justice.’ tinyurl.com/5n7nn6pm