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The Contract in The Hobbit

Following on from my posts about the contract law issues in Shrek Forever After and The Muppets, another major movie brings us interesting contract law issues: The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey Continue Reading

Law and Justice on the Small Screen

Hart Publishing has just announced the publication of Law and Justice on the Small Screen, edited by Peter Robson (University of Strathclyde) and Jessica Silbey (Suffolk University Law School). Continue Reading

The Muppets and Contract Law

I've recently had the great good fortune to see The Muppets (2011) (imdb | official site | wikipedia). Like the recent classic movie Shrek Forever After, it is very much a movie about contract law: Continue Reading

Should galleries and museums display offensive art?

I have on this blog regularly discussed the extent to which offensive speech can be restricted. For example, there are many (many) posts on this blog on censorship and blasphemy. Furthermore, I have Continue Reading

Turner, Garrow, Zong; Contract law and the slave trade, redux

I love the paintings of WIlliam Turner (1775–1851). Every January, the Vaughan bequest of Turner watercolours goes on display in the National Gallery of Ireland, and every January I spend a happy Continue Reading

Shrek and the Law of Contract

Faustian bargains are at the heart of Shrek Forever After, the final chapter in the Shrek franchise, and those bargains raise interesting questions for the law of contract (even as the marketing of Continue Reading

Kingsfield on Higher Options

This time last year, I found myself explaining to concerned parents at the Higher Options Fair that law students' small lecture load does not necessarily mean a small work load. Plus ça change. My Continue Reading

Seeing justice done?

As the slow march towards a new Supreme Court for the UK nears its destination, the Times has a piece about its newly refurbished premises: The United Kingdom’s new Supreme Court will open its Continue Reading