Law and Literature

With Professor Jeanne Gaakeer (Legal Theory, Rotterdam), Greta Olson is the co-founder of the European Network for Law and Literature (www.eurnll.org). Please contact Jeanne or Greta to be included or to pass on news to colleagues about upcoming conferences and publications: eurnll@law.eur.nl.
  • Paper: “What is ‘literature’ in Law and Literature? – The Move towards Mediality and the Problem of Representation” at the 8th conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE) “The Letter of the Law: Law Matters in Language and Literature” (6 May 2011) University of Athens. (Abstract.)
  • Public Lecture on "Women as Torturers at Abu Ghraib" at the conference "Gender Dynamics and Legal Culture – Tradition and Transformation" (7 October 2010) University of Copenhagen.
  • Lecture to the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen (6 October 2010) on "Gender Conservatism in Two Women Judge Shows: Judge Judy and Richterin Barbara Salesch".
  • Roundtable discussant: "Literature and Terrorism" at the European Society for the Study of English Conference (24-27 August 2010) Torino, Italy.
  • Seminar convener: "Law and English Studies" at the European Society for the Study of English Conference (24-27 August 2010) Torino, Italy.
  • Public lecture: "Reading 9/11: The Ethics and Politics of Interpreting 9/11 and 'War on Terror’ Texts (2 December 2009) University of Gießen.
  • Keynote lecture: "Legal Cultures and the (Unholy?) Alliance of Religion and Punitivity" at the conference Dialogues on Justice. European Perspectives on Law and Humanities, Villa Vigoni (20 October, 2009) (Abstract.)
  • Paper: "Legal Cultures and Scholarly Genres: Is there still room for literature in the Law and Culture paradigm?" at the conference "Intersections of Law and Culture" (2 October 2009) Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland (Abstract.)
  • Speaker at the Modern Language Association 2008 Convention on "Law and Narrative: An International Approach" (27-30 December 2008) San Francisco. (Abstract.)
  • Roundtable chair: "The Punitive Turn" at the European Society for the Study of English Conference (22-26 August 2008) Århus, Denmark. For more information (abstract) click here.
  • Editor with Martin Kayman (Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff) of the European Journal of English Studies issue on "Law, Literature, and Language," Vol. 11, Issue 1 (Routledge), 2007. http://www.essenglish.org/ejes.html
  • Paper on "Towards a Comparative Law and Literature Practice" for the seminary Literature and Law: An Interdisciplinary Approach at the annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of English 8, London (August 2006). (Abstract.)
  • Paper on "Criminalizing the Poor: Convergences of Law, Literature, and Reporting in the Early Modern Period" for the panel "Law and Literature" at: Close Encounters: Science Literature Arts, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (June 2006) Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (Abstract.)
  • Member of the German Research Foundation Project "Law, Norm and Criminalization" (2004-2008).
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