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August 28, 2025

Sharma and Pareek on Colonial Constructs and Legal Myths: The Erasure of Hindi Jurisprudence and Dicta on Criminal Law Under the Shadow of English Legal Superiority

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Prakash Sharma, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, and Animesh Pareek, IIT Kharagpur, have published Colonial Constructs and ...
August 25, 2025

Johnson on Frederick Douglass: D.C. Recorder of Deeds

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Randall K. Johnson, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, is publishing Frederick Douglass: D.C. Recorder of Deeds in volume ...
August 20, 2025

Seong-Hak Kim on Legal Pluralism That Wasn't: State and the Plurality of Law in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht", has published Legal Pluralism That Wasn't: State a...
August 19, 2025

Call For Applications, Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities, Tilburg Law School

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From Michel Bot,  Associate Professor of Law and Humanities Department of Public Law and Governance, Tilburg Law School Program Director, Ma...
August 17, 2025

Call for Applications: Law/Justice/Ethics Positions, Haverford College

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  Call For Applications: Interdisciplinary Positions at Haverford College Two tenure-track interdisciplinary law/justice/ethics jo...
August 15, 2025

Serafin on The Corruption of Blood as Metaphor

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Nicholas Serafin, Santa Clara University School of Law, has published The Corruption of Blood as Metaphor . Here is the abstract. Article...
August 11, 2025

Molina Bustos on Cultural Analysis of the Legend of the Alligator Man

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Francisco Fabiany Molina Bustos, EDUKIVOTOS, has published Cultural Analysis of the Legend of the Alligator Man. Here is the abstract. Th...
August 7, 2025

Molina Bustos on Cultural Analysis of the Legend of the Whistler

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Francisco Fabiany Molina Bustos, EDUKIVOTOS, has published Cultural Analysis of the Legend of the Whistler . Here is the abstract. This aca...
August 6, 2025

Rocheton: Among the Voices of the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges' Political and Legal Pamphlets

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Julie Rocheton, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, has published Among the Voices of the French Revolution: Olympe de ...
August 5, 2025

Concepcion on The First American Law Libraries

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Cattleya M. Concepcion, Georgetown University Law Library, has published The First American Law Libraries at The Green Bag Almanac and Read...

Upcoming Conference: Melville's Legacy For Law and the Humanities, University of Cincinnati Law School, October 24-25, 2025

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Upcoming Conference at the University of Cincinnati Law School, October 24-25, 2025 Melville's Legacy for Law and the Humanities Co-spon...
August 1, 2025

Paradise on Agape and Law in Byzantium

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Brandon L. Paradise, Rutgers Law School, Newardk, has published Agape and Law in Byzantium . Here is the abstract. This study focuses on a...
July 30, 2025

Muñoz on The American Revolutions of 1776

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, University of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science, has published The American Revolutions of 1776 . Here is t...
July 28, 2025

Bilder on Hater of Kings: Catharine Macaulay's Constitutional Regicide and the Declaration of Independence

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Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School, has published Hater of Kings: Catharine Macaulay’s Constitutional Regicide and the Declaration...
July 27, 2025

McKoski on David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge

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Ray McKoski, University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Law, has published David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge (University of ...
July 26, 2025

Muñoz on History and Tradition in the Trump Justices' Church-State Jurisprudence

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, University of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science, has published History and Tradition in the Trump Justices’...
July 25, 2025

Hrdy and Brean on Testing the Gernsback Hypothesis: Science Fiction's Influence on Patents and Innovation

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Camilla Alexandra Hrdy, Rutgers Law School; Yale University Information Society Project, and Daniel Harris Brean, Senior In-House Intellectu...

Murray on Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice

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Brian Murray, Seton Hall Law School, is publishing Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice in volume 101 of the Notre Dame ...
July 21, 2025

Werner on The Physics of Law

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Swen Werner, My Digital Truth, has published The Physics Of Law . Here is the abstract. This paper interrogates the structural precondition...
July 19, 2025

Dojcinovic on War Crimes: Definition, History, Practice

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Predrag Dojcinovic, University of Connecticut, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute; International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugos...
July 17, 2025

Khan on Civil Rights Lawyering and the Reconstruction of Law and Literature

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Almas Khan, Civil Rights Lawyering and the Reconstruction of Law and Literature, at 29 European Journal of English Studies 1 (2025). Here i...
July 11, 2025

Sanders on Reasonable Doubt About James Bradley Thayer

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Anthony B. Sanders, Institute for Justice, is publishing Reasonable Doubt About James Bradley Thayer in volume 18 of the Elon Law Review. H...
July 8, 2025

Crivelli on Eighteenth-Century English Marriage and Inheritance Law in Pride and Prejudice

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Chiara Crivelli (no affiliation provided) has published Eighteenth - Century English Marriage and Inheritance Law in Pride and Prejudice . H...

Blocher and Siegel on The Ambitions of History and Tradition in and Beyond the Second Amendment

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Joseph Blocher, Duke University School of Law, and Reva Siegel, Yale University School of Law, are publishing The Ambitions of History and T...
July 4, 2025

Gurnham on Stopping the Boats, Changing the Narrative: How the Migrant Refugee Bildungsroman Became a Ghost Story

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David Gurnham, Stopping the Boats, Changing the Narrative: How the Migrant Refugee Bildungsroman Became a Ghost Story, 37 Law & Literatu...

Williams on Sola Scriptura and the Magisterium: Reconciling Two Biblical Analogues of Constitutional Interpretation Through a Judicial Hermeneutic of Storytelling

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Telia Mary U. Williams, Northern Illinois University College of Law, has published Sola Scriptura and the Magisterium: Reconciling Two Bibli...
June 30, 2025

McCaffrey and Dorobat on First Principles on the Final Frontier: Economic Foundations of Science Fiction

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Matthew McCaffrey, University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, and Carmen-Elena Dorobat, Manchester Business School, Strategy Ente...
June 28, 2025

Harrison on The First State to Ratify the United States Constitution

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Alan Harrison (no affiliation provided to SSRN), has published The First State to Ratify the United States Constitution . Here is the abstra...
June 25, 2025

Call For Interest, International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication: From Text to Semiotics, Section 52: Digital Transition of Contemporary Societies and Legal Adaptation

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From Anne Wagner, Research Associate Professor, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (CGU Calais) Call for Interests: Section 52 — Digital T...
June 23, 2025

Grossman and Friedman on The Quick and the Dead: The Uses and Misuses of History in Abortion Jurisprudence

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ICYMI: Joanna L. Grossman, Southern Methodist University School of Law, and Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford University School of Law, have pu...
June 22, 2025

Keyes on the Evolution of Legislative Drafting Style in English

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John Mark Keyes, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, has published Evolution of Legislative Drafting Style in English . Here is the abstrac...
June 20, 2025

Shanks-Dumont on Godzilla Cinema and the Imaginal Legal History of Ecocide

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Daimeon Shanks-Dumont, University of California, Berkeley, is publishing Godzilla Cinema and the Imaginal Legal History of Ecocide in volu...
June 19, 2025

Call For Papers: Anamorphosis--International Journal of Law & Literature

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From Dr. Amanda Muniz Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) Call for Papers ANAMORPHOSIS - International Journal of Law ...
June 18, 2025

Drumbl on Justice Pal's Legacy: Keynote Lecture

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Mark Drumbl, Washington and Lee University School of Law, has published Justice Pal's Legacy: Keynote Lecture . Here is the abstract. ...
June 17, 2025

Lincoln on Axiomatic Shifting Paradigms: Wittgenstein's Language-Games, Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, Language, Law, and the Limits of Formalism

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Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln, IV, University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, has published Axiomatic Shifting Paradigms: Wittgenstein’s Langu...

Joshi on Judicial Regrets

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Yuvraj Joshi, Brooklyn Law School; UCLA Promise Institute of Human Rights; UC Berkeley Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, i...
June 16, 2025

Call For Applications, Visiting Fellows 2026, for the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne

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Call For Applications: Visiting Fellows 2026 The Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Lucerne invites applic...
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