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October 28, 2023
Call For Papers: University of Lucerne: In the Thick of Images: Law, History, and the Visual
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From Steven Howe, University of Lucerne: In the Thick of Images: Law, History, and the Visual Monday 10 & Tuesday 11 June 2024 Univ...
October 26, 2023
ICYMI: Contreras on Science Fiction and the Law: A New Wigmorian Bibliography @contreraslegals @sjquinney
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ICYMI: Jorge L. Contreras, University of Utah College of Law, has published Science Fiction and the Law: A New Wigmorian Bibliography at 13 ...
October 25, 2023
Charles on Time and Tradition in Second Amendment Law @JacobDCharles @PeppLaw @FordhamULJ
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Jacob D. Charles, Pepperdine University School of Law, is publishing Time and Tradition in Second Amendment Law in volume 51 of the Fordham...
Williams on American Exceptionalism as/in Constitutional Interpretation @BYULaw @GaLRev
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Lucy Williams, Brigham Young University Law School, has published American Exceptionalism as/in Constitutional Interpretation at 57 Georgia...
October 24, 2023
Casini on Addressing the Use of Rap Lyrics as Criminal Evidence @KCEsq @QuinnipiacLaw
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Kevin Casini, Qiunnipiac University School of Law, has published Addressing the Use of Rap Lyrics as Criminal Evidence . Here is the abstrac...
October 20, 2023
2024 Law and Humanities Workshop For Junior Scholars: Call For Participation
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2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS Call for Participation Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA S...
Gillmer on Pearson v. Pearson: A Story of Slavery, Marriage, and the West, Told in Black and White @GonzagaLaw
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Jason Gillmer, Gonzaga University School of Law, has published Pearson v. Pearson: A Story of Slavery, Marriage, and the West, Told in Black...
October 16, 2023
Narechania on Hamilton's Copyright and the Election of 1800 @tnarecha @BerkeleyLaw @WisLRev
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Tejas N. Narechania, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, is publishing Hamilton's Copyright and the Election of 1800 in ...
October 13, 2023
Stern on Blackstone's Page and Trollope's Jurisprudence: From Doctrine to Fiction @ArsScripta @CambridgeUP
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Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing Blackstone’s Page and Trollope’s Jurisprudence: From Doctrine to Fiction i...
October 11, 2023
Hamann on "iudex non calculate": A Scavenger Hunt in Legal History @HanjoHamann @EBSuniversitaet
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Hanjo Hamann, EBS Law School; Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, has published "iudex non calculat": A Scaveng...
October 9, 2023
Call For Proposals: ACA/PCA National Conference, Chicago, March 27-30, 2024
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Just received: From Patricia Peknik, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Berklee College of Music: Call for Proposals: Sessions, Pane...
October 6, 2023
McCall on The Differing Ground on Which Textualists and Classical Lawyers Stand @Vermeullarmine @thenewdigest @Caseyco231 @UofOklahomaLaw
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Brian McCall, University of Oklahoma College of Law, has published The Differing Ground on which Textualists and Classical Lawyers Stand . H...
Call For Papers: Facial Recognition Technologies and Monitoring Crowds at Public Events
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From Claire Wrobel, MAÎTRE DE CONFÉRENCES EN LANGUES, Paris-Panthéon-Assas: The "Law and Humanities" team at the Paris-Panthéon-...
October 1, 2023
Basile on Ordinary Meaning and Plain Meaning @VirginiaLawRev
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Marco Basile, Harvard Law School, is publishing Ordinary Meaning and Plain Meaning in the Virginia Law Review. Here is the abstract. With...
Mutua on The Fraud of John Locke: Subnational Challenges to Democratic Theory @makaumutua
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Makau W. Mutua, SUNY Buffalo Law School, is publishing The Fraud of John Locke: Subnational Challenges to Democratic Theory in Comparative ...
September 28, 2023
Gardner on Why Law Isn't Jazz: A Response @UBSchoolofLaw @buffalolawrev
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James A. Gardner, University at Buffalo Law School, has published Why Law Isn't Jazz: A Response, at 71 Buffalo Law Review The Docket D1...
September 27, 2023
Stanchi on The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth v. Berkowitz @BoydLawUNLV
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Kathryn Stanchi, University of Nevada, Law Vegas, School of Law, is publishing The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth v. Berk...
September 24, 2023
Edmonds on Why We Should Stop Talking About Violent Offenders: Storytelling and Decarceration @UMichLaw @nulawreview
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Mira Edmonds, University of Michigan Law School, is publishing Why We Should Stop Talking About Violent Offenders: Storytelling and Decarcer...
September 23, 2023
Baumgartner on The Meaning of "Reasonable": Evidence From a Corpus-Linguistic Study @UZH_ch @kneer @kevin_tobia @CambridgeUP
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Lucien Baumgartner and Markus Kneer, both of the University of Zurich, Institute of Philosophy, are publishing The Meaning of ‘Reasonable’: ...
September 21, 2023
Williams on Making a Mother: The Supreme Court and the Constitutive Rhetoric of Motherhood @BYULaw
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Lucy Williams, Brigham Young University Law School, is publishing Making a Mother: The Supreme Court and the Constitutive Rhetoric of Mother...
September 20, 2023
McMahon on Canada's Laws of White Supremacy
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Thomas McMahon has published Canada’s Laws of White Supremacy: 1496-1791 . Here is the abstract. Is it permitted to say "white suprema...
September 19, 2023
Hylton on Originalism, Official History, and Perspectives versus Methodologies @BU_Law
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Keith N. Hylton, Boston University School of Law, has published Originalism, Official History, and Perspectives versus Methodologies as Bos...
September 17, 2023
Manning and Gayle on Enslavement in a Free Country: Legalized Exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans in Early California and the Post-Emancipation South @TheJLPE
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Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Steven Gayle are publishing Enslaved in a Free Country: Legalized Exploitation of Native Americans and Afric...
September 15, 2023
ICYMI: Sherwin on The Narrative Construction of Legal Reality @RKSherwin @NYLawSchool @VTLawReview
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ICYMI: Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published The Narrative Construction of Legal Reality at 18 Vt. L. Rev. 681 (1994). Her...
September 12, 2023
ICYMI: Williams on Blasting Reproach and All-Pervading Light: Frederick Douglass's Aspirational American Exceptionalism @BYULaw
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ICYMI: Lucy Williams, Brigham Young University Law School, has published Blasting Reproach and All-Pervading Light: Frederick Douglass’s Asp...
September 10, 2023
Call For Papers: International Conference on Constitutional Communities, KU Leuven, Belgium
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CFP From Roger Ventura Cossin, KU Leuven: Call for Papers International conference on Constitutional Communities When: 8-9 Febr...
September 8, 2023
le Dret on Freedom of Testation in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Legislation @MPIPRIV
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Valentin Pinel le Dret, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, has published Freedom of Testation in the Revolu...
Booth on Delegitimizing the Supreme Court: The Lessons of Dred Scott @JBooth_history @UCLaw_Quarterly
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Jonathon Booth is publishing Delegitimizing the Supreme Court: The Lessons of Dred Scott in volume 51 of the UC Law Constitutional Quarterl...
September 7, 2023
Frazier on The Next Required Law School Course: History of America's Foundings @StThomasLaw
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Kevin Frazier, St. Thomas University School of Law, is publishing The Next Required Law School Course: History of America’s Foundings in vo...
Rohde and Parra-Herrara on Law as Architecture: Mapping Contingency and Autonomy in Twentieth-Century Legal Historiography @DanEricRohde @nicolasparrah @harvard_law @TheJLPE
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Dan Rohde and Nicolas Parra-Herrara, both of Harvard Law School, are publishing Law as Architecture: Mapping Contingency and Autonomy in Twe...
September 4, 2023
Aydin-Aitchinson on Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić @UoELawSchool
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Andy Aydin-Aitchinson, University of Edinburgh School of Law, has published Victims, perpetrators, and bystanders: Atrocity and its aftermat...
August 29, 2023
MacDonnell on The 1922 Colorado River Compact at 100 @ColoLaw
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Lawrence MacDonnell, University of Colorado Law School, is publishing The 1922 Colorado River Compact at 100 in volume 33 of Western Legal ...
August 27, 2023
Call For Abstracts, Law and Humanities Roundtable 2024 @DavidGurnham @law_humanities
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From David Gurnham, Professor of Criminal Law and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, School of Law, University of Southampton I’m pleased t...
August 24, 2023
Murray on The People of California vs. Juan de Dios Ramirez Villa @LoyolaLawSchool
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Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School, is publishing The People of California vs. Juan de Dios Ramirez Villa in the Yale Journal of Law and t...
Abrams on Writing It Right: References to Beatles Songs in Advocacy and Judicial Opinions
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Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published Writing It Right: References to Beatles Songs in Advocacy and Judicia...
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