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August 31, 2026

Moller on The Radical Whig Origins of the Horizontal Necessary and Proper Clause

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Mark Moller, DePaul University College of Law, is publishing The Radical Whig Origins of the Horizontal Necessary and Proper Clause in volu...

Submissions Deadline for Law and Literature in International Economic Law Now September 17, 2026

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From Rachel Benharrousse, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public Law and Governance, Tilburg Law School We are pleased to announce that t...
August 28, 2026

Tan on Metaverse Realities: Governance, Virtual Property and Legal Ordering in Emerging Virtual Worlds

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Albert Tan, University of Groningen Faculty of Law, has published Metaverse Realities: Governance, Virtual Property and Legal Ordering in Em...
August 26, 2026

Priel on Bentham's Children: Intellectual Lineage in Jurisprudence

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Dan Priel, City University of Hong Kong; Osgoode Hall Law School, has published Bentham's Children: Intellectual Lineages in Jurispruden...

Galanis on Roger Williams and Religious Liberty: Conscience, Civil Jurisdiction and the Constitutional Separation of Church and State

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Panagiotis Galanis, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, has published Roger Williams and Religious Liberty: Conscience, Civil Jurisd...
August 24, 2026

Curran on Disentangling the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

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Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Disentangling the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Fr...
August 20, 2026

Galanis on Religion and Nature in the Enlightenment

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Panagiotis Galanis, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, has published Religion and Nature in the Enlightenment . Here is the abstrac...
August 19, 2026

Croucher on The Murder at Agnes Banks

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John Croucher, Macquarie University, has published The Murder at Agnes Banks: Unravelling Truth, Lies, and 19th Century Justice . The set...

Miller on Coda: The Framers, the British East India Company, and Guaranteeing a Republican Form of Government

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Paul S. Miller, Loyola University School of Law, has published Coda: The Framers, the British East India Company, and Guaranteeing a Republi...
August 18, 2026

American Journal of Legal History: Call for Proposals for 2027 Special Issues

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 From the American Journal of Legal History: Special Issues: Call for Proposals for 2027 The American Journal of Legal History is a well-est...
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...
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