ASLCH Conference Underway In Dallas

The annual conference of ASLCH (the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities) is going on this weekend at Texas Wesleyan School of Law in Dallas. The Graduate Student Workshop, the association's first, was yesterday, and Susan Ayres tells me it was very successful. Today the panel presentations begin. The law school is a lovely venue and everyone has been making us feel very welcome.

The theme for this year's conference is "Representing Justice." The keynote speakers are Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis. Their recent book, Representing Justice, is featured here in the New York Times.

All Those Hobbits!

In case you have been waiting for it, here is a genealogy of Lord of the Rings characters, compiled by Emil Johannson. More here at CNN's Geekout Blog.

On law in Tolkien's writings, start with W. H. Stoddard, Law and Institutions in the Shire.