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March 28, 2025

Sullivan on Death and Discretion: Some Thoughts on Living

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Barry Sullivan, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is publishing Death and Discretion: Some Thoughts on Living in volume 35 of the Ya...
March 25, 2025

Workshop on Understanding and Doing Equality: Building Synergies Between Arts and Human Rights

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From Honor Tuohy, University of Galway: Announcement of a workshop: Understanding and Doing Equality: Building Synergies between Arts and Hu...
March 24, 2025

Fletcher on Nanboozhoo Died for Your Sins

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Matthew L. M. Fletcher, University of Michigan Law School, has published Nanaboozhoo Died for Your Sins . Here is the abstract. This paper...
March 23, 2025

Cooper on A Sin for the Sake of Heaven: Vigilante Heroes in Law and Culture. An Old-New Paradigm

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Levi Cooper, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, has published A Sin for the Sake of Heaven: Vigilante Heroes in Law and Culture. An Old-New...
March 21, 2025

Craddock on Civic Friendship in the Postmodern Polis: Law as Mediator in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

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Joshua J. Craddock, Harvard Law School, Students; James Wilson Institute for Natural Rights and the American Founding, is publishing Civic F...
March 19, 2025

Cramer on The National Firearms Act and Perceived Constitutional Limitations in 1934

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Clayton E. Cramer, College of Western Idaho, has published The National Firearms Act and Perceived Constitutional Limitations in 1934 . Here...

Siegel on Balkin Amid Balkanization: Constitutional Construction, The Uses of History, And Interpretive Discretion In A Divided Country

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Neil Siegel, Duke University School of Law, has published Balkin Amid Balkanization: Constitutional Construction, The Uses Of History, And I...

Pfander and Zakowski on Non-Party Protective Relief in the Early Republic: Judicial Power to Annul Letters Patent

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James E. Pfander and Mary Zakowski, both of Northwestern University School of Law, are publishing Non-Party Protective Relief in the Early R...

Bucholski and Murphy on Kinder und Kueche: Women, Marriage, and Children in Nazi Germany

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Lara Bucholski, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and Christopher Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the Stu...
March 14, 2025

Campbell on Tradition, Originalism, and General Fundamental Law

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Jud Campbell, Stanford Law School, has published Tradition, Originalism, and General Fundamental Law at 47 Harvard Journal of Law and Publi...
March 13, 2025

Blocher and Garrett on Applying History as Law: The Role of Historical Facts in Implementing Constitutional Doctrine

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Joseph Blocher and Brandon L. Garrett, both of Duke University School of Law, have published Applying History as Law: The Role of Historical...
March 5, 2025

Heniford and Still on Panic! At the Ballroom: The 1804 New Orleans Ballroom Weapons Ban in a Post-Bruen Context

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Kellen Heniford, Everytown for Gun Safety, and Kari Still, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, are publishing Panic! At the Bal...
March 4, 2025

Keay, Inwood, and Long on Public Sentiment and Criminal Sentencing: Gender, Indigeneity, and Class in Nineteenth Century British Columbia

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Ian Keay, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kris Inwood, University of Guelph, Department of Economics, and Blair Long, Memor...
March 1, 2025

Amirbayeva on Understanding the Significance of Forensic Linguistics Among Law Students

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Dana Amirbayeva, The English and Foreign Languages University, School of English Language Education has published Understanding The Signific...
February 27, 2025

Reid on London's Burning: The Gordon Riots of 1780, Conspiracy Theory, Elite Connivance, Law Reform, and Official Bigotry

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Charles J. Reid, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published London's Burning: The Gordon Riots of 1780, Conspirac...
February 26, 2025

Bray and Keane on James Ussher (1581-1656)

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Samuel L. Bray, Notre Dame Law School, and D. N. Keane, Georgia Southern University, are publishing James Ussher (1581-1656) in Christianit...
February 20, 2025

Brophy on The Jurisprudence of Antebellum Phi Beta Kappa Addresses

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Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law, has published The Jurisprudence of Antebellum Phi Beta Kappa Addresses . Here ...
February 19, 2025

Hummel on Music of the Law: A Wigmorian Playlist for a Modern Era @josephhummel.bsky.social

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Joseph Hummel, UNT Dallas College of Law, has published Music of the Law: A Wigmorian Playlist for a Modern Era at 59 Tulsa Law Review 301 ...

Boden on Myra Bradwell and the Chicago Legal News: Speech and the March for All Civil Rights

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Anastasia Boden, George Mason University, has published Myra Bradwell and the Chicago Legal News: Speech and the March for All Civil Rights ...
February 16, 2025

Perez on A Critical Analysis of Rap Shield Laws

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Alexa Perez, Drake University Law School, is publishing A Critical Analysis of Rap Shield Laws in volume 110 of the Cornell Law Review. Her...
February 15, 2025

Sherwin on The Challenge of Legal Chorology: Rethinking Political Theology

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Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published The Challenge of Legal Chorology: Rethinking Political Theology as NYLS Legal Studie...

Sevel on The Rule of Law: A Thought Pattern @michaelsevel.bsky.social

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Michael Sevel, The University of Sydney Faculty of Law, is publishing The Rule of Law: A Thought Pattern in The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome...
February 11, 2025

Call for Applications: Critical Times Summer School, University of Lucerne, 30 June to 4 July 2025

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From Steven Howe, University of Lucerne: Call For Applications, Disruptions: Summer School, University of Lucerne Critical Times 2025 Disr...
February 1, 2025

Wieboldt on The "Crusading Fanatics" of American Law: American Jesuits and the Origins of the Neo-Scholastic Legal Revival, 1870-1960 @notredame.bsky.social

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Dennis J. Wieboldt, III, University of Notre Dame, is publishing The "Crusading Fanatics" of American Law: American Jesuits and th...
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...
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