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August 17, 2026
LCH Conference Set For May 27-28, 2027
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From the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities: ...
August 13, 2026
Neacsu and Callister on From Myers to Slaughter: A Brief Theory of the Constitutionalization of Secondary Sources
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Dana Neacsu, Columbia University; Barnard College, and Paul D. Callister, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, have published...
Schroeder on St. George Tucker's Unlimited Common Law
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Joshua J. Schroeder, Independent, has published St. George Tucker's Unlimited Common Law as SchroederLaw Working Paper No. 115, 2026. ...
August 12, 2026
Walker on They Did Not Survive a Dinner Party: Judicial Ethics, the Osage Mineral Estate, and What Conscience Required
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Lance Walker, Walker Law, PLLC; University of Oklahoma College of Law, has published They Did Not Survive A Dinner Party: Judicial Ethics, t...
August 10, 2026
van Aaken and Simsek on The Situated Universality of Emotions, Cognition, and International Law: A Biocultural Analogy
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Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek, both of the University of Hamburg Law School, have published The Situated Universality Of Emotions, Cogniti...
August 9, 2026
CFP: Festscrift in Honor of Professor Lenora Ledwon
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CFP for essays/articles in honor of Professor Lenora Ledwon Call for Papers We are delighted to invite abstract submissions (or full d...
August 5, 2026
Amin on Moving From Colonizers to Guardians: International Law and the African Mandates under the League of Nations (1919-1945)
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George Forji Amin, York St. John University Faculty of Law, The University of Manchester School of Law, University of Bolton School of Law, ...
August 4, 2026
Witte's Foreword to Law and Christianity in Japan: The Legacy of the Great Jurists
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John Witte, Emory University School of Law, is published "Foreword" to Law and Christianity in Japan: The Legacy of the Great Juri...
July 29, 2026
Lacan in Australia--Event: Reading Antigone
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From William MacNeil, Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland: I write to invite you to an upcoming theatrical performance in which...
July 27, 2026
Accornero on The Chartered Agent: How the City of London Wrote the Legal Architecture of Agentic Commerce in 1555
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Paul F. Accornero has published The Chartered Agent: How the City of London Wrote the Legal Architecture of Agentic Commerce in 1555 . Here ...
July 24, 2026
DeLoach on Antigone, Autonomy, and Higher Lawlessness
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Andrew R. DeLoach, Trinity Law School, is publishing Antigone, Autonomy, and Higher Lawlessness in Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Here i...
July 22, 2026
Call for Applications: Michele Bratcher Goodwin Fellowship in Law and Society
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From the Law and Society Association: The Law and Society Association is excited to continue the work of the Michele Bratcher Goodwin Fello...
July 16, 2026
Gilly on The Corporate Villainy of Tom Sawyer: Manufactured Scarcity, the Ethics of Attention, and the Literary Prehistory of Dark Patterns
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Travis Gilly, Real Safety AI Foundation, has published The Corporate Villainy of Tom Sawyer: Manufactured Scarcity, the Ethics of Attention,...
July 13, 2026
Call For Papers, 27th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
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From Anne Wagner, research Associate Professor, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (CGU Calais) Call for Papers – 27th International ...
July 8, 2026
Available Soon From NYU Press: Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, editors)
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Soon available for purchase: Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, eds., New York Universit...
Portuondo on What Personhood Means
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Laura Portuondo, University of Houston Law Center, has published What Personhood Means at 124 Mich. L. Rev. 1303(2026). Here is the abstrac...
July 7, 2026
Ablavsky on State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country: A History
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Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School, is publishing State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country: A History in volume 133 of the Virginia...
July 6, 2026
Green on What the Declaration Didn't Do
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Jonathan Green, University of Florida College of Law, is publishing What the Declaration Didn't Do in volume 101 of the Notre Dame Law ...
Spitzer on The Historic Regulation of "Unusual" Weapons
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Robert J Spitzer, SUNY Cortland; College of William & Mary School of Law, has published The Historic Regulation of “Unusual” Weapons . H...
Smith and Chang on Stravinsky's National Anthem
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Michael L. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Yoo Jung Chang, Quad City Symphony Orchestra, have published Stravinsky's N...
July 2, 2026
Hoffheimer on Home of the Brave, Land of the Free: The Star-Spangled Banner's Contested History
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Michael H. Hoffheimer, University of Mississippi School of Law, is publishing Home of the Brave, Land of the Free: The Star-Spangled Banner...
Mahardhika on The Spirit Before Law: A Philosophical Reconstuction of Javanese Spirits as Sacral Social Control
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Jimmy Mahardhika, Inspired Research Collective, has published The Spirit Before Law: A Philosophical Reconstruction of Javanese Spirits as S...
Segarra on Tattoos and the Unreasonable Logic of Reasonable Suspicion
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Curtis Segarra, University of Michigan Law School, is publishing Tattoos and the Unreasonable Logic of Reasonable Suspicion in volume 63 of...
Shih-Chun Steven Chien on Cultivating Sense: Cultural Change in the Prosecutor's Office
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Shin-Chun Steven Chien, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law, has published Cultivating Sense: Cultural Change in the Prosecutor...
Toussaint on Du Bois, Afrofuturism, and Constitutional Renewal
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Etienne C. Toussaint, University of South Carolina School of Law, has published After the Comet: Du Bois, Afrofuturism, and Constitutional R...
July 1, 2026
Forthcoming from Yale University Press: Sergei Antonov, Russia's Rogue Masters: Elite Criminal Trials in the Age of Reform, 1866-1884
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Forthcoming from Yale University Press: Sergei Antonov, Russia’s Rogue Masters: Elite Criminal Trials in the Age of Reform, 1866-1884 (to ...
Kastner on Law and Literature
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Tal Kastner, Rutegers Law School, is publishing Law and Literature in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy (John L...
Stephenson and Murphy on In the Flow: The Case for Process-Related Functionalism
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Randall Stephenson and Christopher Murphy, both of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, have published In the ...
June 30, 2026
Aba-Namay on Legal and Administration Traditions Across Medieval Legal Cultures
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Rashed M. Aba-Namay, National Law Center, has published Legal and Administrative Traditions Across Medieval Legal Cultures: Personnel Networ...
Anderson on The Battle for Lower Manhattan: Trinity Church versus the Bogardus Heirs
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Jerry L. Anderson, Drake University Law School, has published The Battle for Lower Manhattan: Trinity Church versus the Bogardus Heirs . Her...
Call For Papers, Law and Cultural Production
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From Amy Kellam, IALS, University of London: A month ago, I shared the call for papers for a special section of Amicus Curiae on Law and Cu...
June 28, 2026
Solove on Tech: The Audacity: Big Tech and the Battle for Privacy
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Daniel Solove on the tv series The Audacity, technology, and privacy.
June 25, 2026
Call for Applications, Visiting Fellows 2027, Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne
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Call for Applications for Visiting Fellows 2027, Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne The Institute...
Carbado on Can You Be Black and Teach That?
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Devon W. Carbado, UCLA School of Law, is publishing Can you be Black and Teach that? in the New York University Law Review. Here is the abs...
June 19, 2026
Solove on Snoopers, Peepers, and Watchers: 20+ Depictions from Legend, Literature, and Film from the 1600s to Today
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From Solove on Tech: Snoopers, Peepers, and Watchers: 20+ Depictions from Legend, Literature, and Film from the 1600s to Today .
Conklin on Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer: An Adventure in Christmas Litigation
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Michael Conklin, Texas A&M University School of Law, has published Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: An Adventure in Christmas Litigat...
June 18, 2026
Capers on Silencing as Blackening
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I. Bennett Capers, Fordham University School of Law, has published Silencing as Blackening at 114 Georgetown Law Journal 813 (2026). Here i...
Upcoming Webinar: Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of Law: From Colonial Slavery to Global Governance
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From Professor Paolo Farah, University of Tulsa School of Law: Upcoming Webinar: Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of ...
June 16, 2026
Savage on Slavery and the Myth of Religious Liberty
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Audra Savage, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published Slavery and the Myth of Religious Liberty at 51 BYU Law Review 1363. Here...
June 10, 2026
Published at ContractsProf Blog: Guest Post by Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions
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Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions: A Guest Post. Published at ContractsProf Blog .
Fernandez-Lopez on Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations
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Edgar A. Fernandez-Lopez has published Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations...
Crowe on Pseudolaw, Folk Law, and Natural Law: How to Tell the Difference
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Jonathan Crowe, University of Southern Queensland, School of Law and Justice, has published Pseudolaw, Folk Law and Natural Law: How to Tell...
June 8, 2026
Schultz on Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge
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Thomas Schultz, King's College London, University of Geneva, has published Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge...
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