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February 29, 2024
Rose on Property and Literature: the View From Shakespeare's Venice @uarizonalaw @ArsScripta @@ElgarPublishing @Elgar_Law @
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Carol M. Rose, University of Arizona College of Law, is publishing Property and Literature: the View From Shakespeare’s Venice in The Elgar...
February 26, 2024
Announcement: Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law
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From the University of Osnabrueck Summer Institute: Announcement Rights without Borders? Subjects, Precarity, Agency 9th International O...
February 25, 2024
Webber on Gilead Constitutionalism @GregoireWebber @queensulaw @LSELaw
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Grégoire Webber, Queen's University Faculty of Law; London School of Economics, Law School, has published Gilead Constitutionalism as Q...
February 20, 2024
Ziegler on The History of Neutrality: Dobbs and the Social Movement Politics of History and Tradition @maryrziegler @YaleLJournal
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Mary Ziegler, University of California, Davis, School of Law, is publishing The History of Neutrality: Dobbs and the Social Movement Politic...
February 15, 2024
Legal-Literary Imagining: An Early Modern Workshop, 11 March 2024. 10.30am – 6.00pm. New College, Oxford & St John’s College, Oxford
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L iterary-Legal Imagining is a one–day workshop, hosted by New College and St John’s College, and supported by CEMS and the English Facul...
February 13, 2024
Davies on Square Dancing and a Cat at the Supreme Court @horacefuller @georgemasonlaw
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Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law, has published Square Dancing and a Cat at the Supreme Court: Justice Harry A. Blackmu...
February 12, 2024
Pardo on Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy @WashULaw @COLawReview
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Rafael I. Pardo, Washington University, St. Louis, School of Law, is publishing Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy in volume 95 of the Unive...
February 8, 2024
Call For Papers, Authoring Slavery, Aarhus University, June 18-19, 2024
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From Symposium organizers, Aarhus University, Denmark Dear colleagues, Please find attached a call for papers for our 2 day sem...
Pozen on The Common Law of Constitutional Conventions @ColumbiaLaw @CalifLRev
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David Pozen, Columbia University Law School, is publishing The Common Law of Constitutional Conventions in the California Law Review. Here ...
Phillips on A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of "Possessions" in American English, 1760-1776 @BYU
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James Cleith Phillips, Brigham Young University, is publishing A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of "Possessions" in American English, ...
February 6, 2024
Simon on More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor @uarizonalaw
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Diana Simon, University of Arizona College of Law, is publishing More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Down the Rabbit Hole wi...
Call For Papers, Brazilian Journal of International Law @franca_marcilio
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From Professor Marcilio Franca , a call for papers for a special issue of the Brazilian Journal of International Law: BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF ...
February 2, 2024
Emerging Normativities: Hybrid Public Lecture Series on Law, Governance, and Digital Technologies, University of Westminster Law School
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From Daniela Gandorfer, Legal Scholar//Co-Director of LoPh//Founder of Code-X-Diagrams//Blockchain Gov Consultant Westminster University S...
February 1, 2024
Waller on Antitrust and Pop Culture: The Sequel @LoyolaLaw
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Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, has published Antitrust and Pop Culture: The Sequel at 37 Antitrust 53 (Summ...
January 31, 2024
Frampton on The First Black Jurors and the Integration of the American Jury @TFrampton @UVALaw @nyulawreview
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Thomas Frampton, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing The First Black Jurors and the Integration of the American Jury in the...
January 29, 2024
Ollikainen-Read and Murphy on Law as a Means of Communicating Colonial Control in India: Max Planck Lawcast, Episode 8 @maxplancklaw @mpilhlt
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Erica Ollikainen-Read, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, and Christopher Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the Study o...
January 26, 2024
Teaching Materials on Comics, From Nick Sousanis @nsousanis on all the socials fwiw @SFSU
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Newly available from Nick Sousanis: Wonderful materials on how to make and use comics in the classroom at Spin, Weave, and Cut. Nick is a pr...
January 24, 2024
Davies on A Stout Stanza of Many Meanings, Maybe: The Romantic Roots of Some Buried Caesar @GB2d @horacefuller @georgemasonlaw
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Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag, has published A Stout Stanza of Many Meanings, Maybe: The Romantic Roots ...
January 23, 2024
Call For Participation, 2024 European Society for the Study of English Conference: Panel: What Do the Humanities Have to Say to Law? @Greta_Olson_
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Call for participation: The 2024 European Society for the Study of English conference. The conference will take place at the University of...
January 22, 2024
Bahnson and Shreve on Legal Treatises and the Evolution of Civil Rights Case Law @DukeLawLibrary @DukeLaw
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Jane Bahnson and Wickliffe Shreve, both of Duke University School of Law, have published Legal Treatises and the Evolution of Civil Rights C...
Zhang on The Private Law Influence of the Great Qing Code @ZhangTaisu @YaleLawSch @CambridgeUP
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Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School, has published The Private Law Influence of the Great Qing Code in The Making of the Chinese Civil Code 249-26...
January 19, 2024
van den Berge on Roman Dictatorship: Emergency Government and the Limits of Legality @berge_lukas @UniUtrecht
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Lukas van den Berge, Utrecht University Faculty of Law, has published Roman Dictatorship: Emergency Government and the Limits of Legality a...
January 16, 2024
Stanchi on The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth of Berkowitz @BoydLawUNLV
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Kathryn Stanchi, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law, is publishing The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth v. Berk...
January 14, 2024
Epps and Green on Black Lawyers Matter: An Oral History of Race-Inclusive Admissions at Yale @TempleLaw @TempleEpps
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JoAnne Epps and Craig Green, both of Temple University School of Law, have published Black Lawyers Matter: An Oral History of Race-Inclusive...
Hooton and Murphy on Provincial Poor Laws and Pauper Auctions: The Elizabethan Welfare System in Colonial Canada @MPICSL @mpilhlt @maxplancklaw
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Victoria Hooton, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, and Christopher Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crim...
January 13, 2024
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...
Buffington on Being vs. Because: New Observations on the Syntax & Semantics of the US Constitution's Second Amendment @AlbanyLaw
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Joe Buffington, Albany Law School, has published Being vs. Because: New Observations on the Syntax & Semantics of the US Constitution’s ...
January 7, 2024
ICYMI: Shugerman on Removal of Context: Blackstone, Limited Monarchy, and the Limits of Unitary Originalism @jedshug @BU_Law
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ICYMI: Jed H. Shugerman, Boston University School of Law, has published Removal of Context: Blackstone, Limited Monarchy, and the Limits of ...
December 13, 2023
Logan on Policing Emotions: What Social Psychology Can Teach Fourth Amendment Doctrine @FSUCollegeofLaw @buffalolawrev
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Wayne A. Logan, Florida State University College of Law, is publishing Policing Emotions: What Social Psychology Can Teach Fourth Amendment ...
Tobia on Methodology and Innovation in Jurisprudence @kevin_tobia @kevintobia.bsky.social @GeorgetownLaw
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Kevin Tobia, Georgetown University Law Center; Georgetown University Department of Philosophy, has published Methodology and Innovation in J...
Koppelman on Essentially Contested Histories: On Recent Efforts to Cabin the Meanings of Slavery and Disestablishment @AndrewKoppelman @NorthwesternLaw @_WayneLaw
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Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern Uniersity School of Law, is pulishing Essentially Contested Histories: On Recent Efforts to Cabin the Meaning...
December 11, 2023
Annual Semiotics of Law Roundtable, Keele University, July 16-18, 2024
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From Mark Featherstone, Professor of Sociology, Keele University: I am writing to draw your attention to the upcoming 24th Annual Semiotics ...
Spitzer on Understanding Gun Law History After Bruen: Moving Forward by Looking Back @spitzerb @WMLawSchool
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Robert J. Spitzer, SUNY Cortland; College of William & Mary School of Law, is publishing Understanding Gun Law History After Bruen: Movi...
December 7, 2023
Rackstraw on When Reality TV Creates Reality: How "Copaganda" Affects Police, Communities, and Viewers @emmarackstraw
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Emma Rackstraw, Harvard University, has published When Reality TV Creates Reality: How “Copaganda” Affects Police, Communities, and Viewers ...
CFP (Updated): In the Thick of Images: Law, History, and the Visual
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From Laura Petersen, University of Lucerne, co-sponsor of the conference In the Thick of Images: Law, History, and the Visual, here is an up...
November 28, 2023
Davies on Spiro T. Agnew In His Own Words: 1973 and 1983 @horacefuller @GB2d
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Ross E. Davies, George Mason Law School; The Green Bag, has published Spiro T. Agnew in His Own Words: 1973 and 1983 at 26 Green Bag 2d 327...
November 21, 2023
Litt on From Rhyming Bars to Behind Bars: The Problematic Use of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Proceedings @LucyJLitt @UMKCLawReview
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Lucy J. Litt, Harvard Law School, has published From Rhyming Bars to Behind Bars: The Problematic Use of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Proceedings ...
November 17, 2023
Morris on The Concept of International Law in the Early Advisory Opinions of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ), 1922-1930 @NomosVerlag
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P. Sean Morris, University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, is publishing The Concept of International Law in the Early Advisory Opinions of the ...
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