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January 29, 2025
Vasconcelos Vilaça on Broken April, Narratology, Legal Normativity, and the Experience of Law
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Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Law School, has published Broken April: Narratology, Legal Nor...
Netolitzky on But My Ghosts Are So Hard to Hear: Pseudolaw and Conspiracy Culture @DNetolitzky @UAlberta
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Donald Netolitzky, University of Alberta, has published But My Ghosts Are So Hard to Hear: Pseudolaw and Conspiracy Culture at 8 Internatio...
January 27, 2025
Toussaint on the Cultivation of Black Letter Law @etiennetoussaint.bsky.social
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Etienne C. Toussaint, University of South Carolina School of Law, has pulished On the Cultivation of Black Letter Law at 124 Columbia Law R...
Asimow on All's Fair in Love and War: Military Justice in the Movies @sculawresearch.bsky.social @amarkhoday.bsky.social
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Michael Asimow, Santa Clara Law School, has published All's Fair in Love and War: Military Justice in the Movies . Here is the abstract....
January 23, 2025
Williams on the Jurisprudence of Sandwiches @sawilliams.bsky.social
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Sam Williams, University of Idaho College of Law, has published The Jurisprudence of Sandwiches . Here is the abstract. The question of wh...
Newly Published: Dirk Heirbaut, Redefining Codification: A Comparative History of Civil, Commercial, and Procedural Codes (OUP, 2025)
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Newly published: Dirk Heirbaut, University of Ghent, has published Redefining Codification: A Comparative History of Civil, Commercial, and ...
January 22, 2025
Forthcoming: Birte Christ, Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations (OUP, 2025) @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
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Forthcoming from Oxford University Press: Birte Christ, Giessen University, Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popu...
January 21, 2025
Call For Papers: Journal of American Constitutional History
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From Professor Marie-Amélie George, Wake Forest Law School Call For Papers: Journal of American Constitutional History "Queer Constit...
January 18, 2025
Goold and Simon on The Case of Snickerwood Soup @davidasimon.bsky.social @david__simon @NUSL
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Patrick Russell Goold, City University London, The City Law School, and David A. Simon, Northeastern University School of Law, have publishe...
Ferguson on The Ciceronian Origins of American Law and Constitutionalism @HarvardJLPP
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Jack Ferguson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, is publishing The Ciceronian Origins of American Law and Constitutionalism in v...
January 17, 2025
Newly Published: Miller on An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture (Cambridge) @CambridgeUP
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Newly published: Russell A. Miller, An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture: Text and Materials (Cambridge University Press, 2024)....
Bernick on Constitutions of Fire and Ice @EvanFloof @jackbalkin @PennLRev @NIU_Law
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Evan D. Bernick, Northern Illinois University College of Law, is publishing Constitutions of Ice and Fire in the Pennsylvania Law Review. H...
January 15, 2025
Parrillo on Foreign Affairs, Nondelegation, and Original Meaning: Congress's Delegation of Power to Lay Embargoes in 1794 @YaleLawSch @PennLRev
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Nicholas R. Parrillo, Yale University Law School, has published Foreign Affairs, Nondelegation, and Original Meaning: Congress's Delegat...
December 30, 2024
Williams on The Law Being Weirder Than AI @uidaholaw
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Sam Williams, University of Idaho College of Law, has published The Law is Weirder than AI . Here is the abstract. Between artificial inte...
December 19, 2024
Iskandar on The Constitutional Significance of State Symbols
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Pranoto Iskandar, McGill University, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism; The Institute for Migrant Rights, has published The Consti...
December 13, 2024
Galperin on Museum of Joy @JoshGalperin @HaubLawatPace @ELIORG
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Joshua Galperin, Pace University School of Law, is publishing Museum of Joy , in a volume to be published by the Environmental Law Institute...
December 12, 2024
Cappelen on No Centralization Without Population: The Black Death and State Formation in Europe @ccappelen.bsky.social
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Christoffer Cappelen, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, has published No Centralization Without Population: The Bla...
December 9, 2024
Unah and Peng on US Supreme Court Decision Making in Intellectual Property Rights (1954-2022)
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Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Political Science, and Sabrina Peng, Duke University School of Law, hav...
December 8, 2024
Herman and Prosenečki on Dads Over Lovers: Why Western Games Favour Parental Relationships Over Romantic Ones, Unlike Other Forms of Art @goteborgsuni
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Zoryana Herman and Fabijan Prosenečki, both of the University of Gothenberg, have published Dads Over Lovers: Why Do Western Games Favour P...
Funk on Sect and Superstition: The Protestant Framework of American Codification @kellenfunk.bsky.social @ColumbiaLaw
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Kellen Funk, Columbia University Law School, is publishing Sect and Superstition: The Protestant Framework of American Codification in the ...
December 7, 2024
Aceves on Critical Constitutional Law and the Alito Palimpsest
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William Aceves, California Western School of Law, is publishing Critical Constitutional Law and the Alito Palimpsest in volume 27 of the Un...
December 6, 2024
Braver and Elinson on A Progressive Judiciary? Judicial Review and National Politics from Reconstruction to the Present @JoshuaBraver1 @WisconsinLaw @NIU_Law
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Joshua Braver, University of Wisconsin Law School, and Gregory Elinson, Northern Illinois University College of Law, are publishing A Progre...
December 5, 2024
Solum on Original Public Meaning @lsolum @UVALaw @michstatelawrev
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Lawrence B. Solum, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing Original Public Meaning in volume 2023 of the Michigan State Law Rev...
Conference on Abortion in American History, January 17, 2025, at the Huntington Library @TheHuntington
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Forthcoming Conference: Abortion in American History: Intimate Decisions, Medical Knowledge, and Legal Decrees in the Two Centuries Before ...
Lo Giacco on Giving Meaning to the Past: Historical and Legal Modes of Thinking @letizialogiacco.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @de_Legiz
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Letizia Lo Giacco, Leiden University Law School, has published Giving Meaning to the Past: Historical and Legal Modes of Thinking at 9 (2) ...
December 4, 2024
Alicea on The Natural Law Moment in Constitutional Theory @HarvardJLPP @CathULaw
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J. Joel Alicea, Catholic University of America School of Law, is publishing The Natural Law Moment in Constitutional Theory in volume 48 o...
Songster, López, and Torres on Participatory Law Scholarship as Demosprudence @AmistadLaw @Rachel_E_Lopez @TempleLaw @YaleLawSch @VirginiaLawRev
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Kempis Songster, Amistad Law Project, Rachel López, Temple University School of Law, Princeton University Program in Law & Public Policy...
December 3, 2024
Graziadei and Giraudo on Contested Economic Maps of Legal Systems
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Michele Graziadei, University of Turin Faculty of Law, and Marco Giraudo, University of Turin; Collegio Carlo Alberto, are publishing Contes...
December 1, 2024
Webb on The Lost History of Judicial Restraint @YaleLawSch @NotreDameLRev
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Derek Webb, Yale Law School, is publishing The Lost History of Judicial Restraint in volume 100 of the Notre Dame Law Review. Here is the a...
November 28, 2024
Guerra-Pujol and Alcouffe on Adam Smith in the City of Light @ProfessorPujol
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F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico; University of Central Florida, and Alain Alcouffe, University of Toulouse...
Hollis on The Original Meaning of Treaties @TempleLaw @PennLRev
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Duncan B. Hollis, Temple University School of Law, is publishing The Original Meaning of Treaties in volume 173 of the University of Pennsy...
November 27, 2024
Siegel on The Levels-of-Generality Game: "History and Tradition" in the Roberts Court @HarvardJLPP @YaleLawSch
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Reva Siegel, Yale Law School, is publishing The Levels-of-Generality Game: "History and Tradition" in the Roberts Court in volume...
Berresford on A Pumpkin Patch, a Typewriter, and Richard Nixon
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John W. Berresford has published A Pumpkin Patch, a Typewriter, and Richard Nixon: The Hiss-Chambers Espionage Case . Here is the abstract. ...
Roosevelt on A Tale of Two Americas @kroosevelt93 @PennJCL @pennlaw @RebeiroBradley
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Kermit Roosevelt, University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published A Tale of Two Americas at 25 Journal of Constitutional Law 939 (2023...
November 25, 2024
Smith on Originalism in the Year Three Thousand @msmith750 @StMarys_Law @QuinnLRev
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Michael L. Smith, St. Mary's University School of Law, is publishing Originalism in the Year Three Thousand in volume 43 of the Quinnip...
Silva on Achaean Disputes: Eight Centuries of Succession Conflicts for the Title of Prince of Achaea @CathULaw
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Ugo Stefano Stornaiolo Silva, Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law; University of Orleans, Faculty of Law and Economics; J...
November 22, 2024
Stern on Law, Literature, and the Legal Imagination @simon8.bsky.social @ArsScripta
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Simon Stern, University of Toronto Law, has published Law, Literature, and the Legal Imagination . Here is the abstract. Law and literatur...
November 21, 2024
Magnuson on Original Discontent @TAMULawSchool @VandLRev
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William J. Magnuson, Texas A&M University School of Law, is publishing Original Discontent in volume 78 of the Vanderbilt Law Review. H...
November 20, 2024
Call For Proposals: 2025 Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, July 9-11, 2025, University of Michigan Law School @UMichLaw
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The University of Michigan Law School is hosting the 2025 Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, July 9-11, 2025. The Applied Legal Storytel...
Long on The Gettysburg Address: Lincoln's Model Legal Argument
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Patrick J. Long, SUNY Buffalo Law School, has published The Gettysburg Address: Lincoln's Model Legal Argument at 72 Buffalo Law Review...
November 19, 2024
Sachs on Good and Evil in the American Founding: The 2023 Vaughan Lecture on America's Founding Principles @StephenESachs @HarvardJLPP
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Stephen E. Sachs, Harvard Law School, is publishing Good and Evil in the American Founding: The 2023 Vaughan Lecture on America's Foundi...
November 13, 2024
Sheikh on "Betty, I Won't Make Assumptions": The Narrative Jurisprudence of Taylor Swift @dsheikh726 @latrobelaw
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Danish Sheikh, LaTrobe Law School, is publishing ‘Betty, I Won’t Make Assumptions’: The Narrative Jurisprudence of Taylor Swift in volume 2...
Willinger on Missing Pieces: Gaps in the Record of Early American Decisional Law @AndrewWillinger @DukeFirearmsLaw @DukeLawJournal
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Andrew Willinger, Duke University School of Law; Center for Firearms Law, is publishing Missing Pieces: Gaps in the Record of Early American...
November 12, 2024
Sapienza University of Rome Hosts Fourth Summer School: The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism, June 16-June 27, 2025
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The Department of Literature and Modern Cultures of Sapienza University of Rome will host the fourth edition of the Summer School The Cultu...
Dane on Thoughts on the Architecture of Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech @perrydane
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Perry Dane, Rutgers Law School, Thoughts on the Architecture of Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech , in the Notre Dame Law Review Ref...
November 11, 2024
Rubin and Elinson on Anatomy of Judicial Backlash: Southern Leaders, Massive Resistance, and the Supreme Court, 1954-1958 @LSI_Journal @NIU_Law @UChicagoPoliSci
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ICYMI: Ruth Bloch Rubin, University of Chicago, and Gregory Elinson, Northern Illinois University College of Law, have published Anatomy of ...
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