My latest, for #AHAPerspectives, as the historic #ArtemisII returns home today. 🚀🛰️

Some reflections - personal & scholarly - on law, tech, & history, through a précis of the book in progress.

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Thanks, Rick! Or people can get it for free: OA e-book

Ok glad it is not widespread, at least. It would be nuts if the view were that conference travel is not sufficiently linked to publishing...(?)

Thanks, Holly!

Thank you, Felicia!

Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law – Cornell University Press Books in the series Corpus Juris explore the relevance of the humanities—history, literary criticism, anthropology, philosophy, religious studies, and political theory—to the study of politics and law...

@cornellupress.bsky.social was an absolute dream to work with! Really and truly. I'm delighted to be part of the Corpus Juris book series: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/series/corpu...

Oh that's so cool, Derek--thanks for sharing this! You did a wonderful job indexing my first book.

Thank you! I am finishing up a spin-off article from the book aimed at judges in India today (re: rule of criminal procedure allowing some experts not to be cross-examined under oath regarding their written reports). In the book, this is CrPC s.510. So getting up to speed now on the new statute.

It was certainly "fun" to research & write! In part because I created my History of Forensic Science course for the project--super productive both for research and teaching. And with lots of interesting (living) forensic experts involved, which is how I got to observe an autopsy at our med school.

Thank you, Gautham!

PUB. DAY! Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia is officially out today. Available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #legalhistory Outfit: red for bloodstain testing+flowered shirt for botanical poisons+poisoner's ring (for show only)

Excellent--thank you for all of these!

Thanks!

Super, Ronit--thank you!

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Excellent--thank you!

Great--thanks!

Or podcasts, films or shows would be great too

Does anyone have book recommendations on the history of Ireland re: the IRA and The Troubles? Asking for my student. Scholarly or popular history or even historical fiction would be great.

Is it common for UK universities to no longer allow faculty members to use their research funds for conference travel? Just heard this from a scholar based there.

Thank you, Kalyani!

Just back from this energizing interdisciplinary History & Philosophy of Science conference at Notre Dame--organized by dynamic
PhD student team Kushal Nandwani, Townsend Rowland & Raquel Sequeira & with 3 other keynote speakers from whom I learned a lot on science, expertise & society

The Virgins’ Malady: How Marriage Became a Medical Treatment “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief /… / Be not her maid, since she is envious; / Her vestal livery is but sick and green / And none but fools do …

Today we have a fantastic essay on medicine’s patriarchal assumptions in treating women’s bodies. nursingclio.org/2026/03/25/t...

Thank you so much, @moubanerjee28.bsky.social! Exciting that the OA e-book is out early--official pub. date is April 15

Susman Godfrey Secures $1.5 Billion Settlement in Landmark AI Piracy Case | Susman Godfrey L.L.P. Agreement Would Result in First Major Payout to Creators Challenging AI Exploitation of their Work, Believed Largest Recovery Ever in a US Copyright Case Susman Godfrey has announced the terms of a la...

Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book.

"Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement."
www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....

Big news, everyone!! The ASLH has created a new dissertation prize for non-US legal history: the Global Dissertation Prize aslh.net/award/global... Eligible authors for this cycle must have received their doctoral degree in *2025.* Deadline: 1 June 2026. Please spread the word &/or submit your work!

How the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin got their land back - Chicago Reader Unsettling Territory by Douglas Kiel chronicles the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s resilience during the 20th and 21st centuries.

The first review of my book is in from @chicagoreader.com!

Publication day for Unsettling Territory is less than a week away!!

chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...

After twenty years of field work and digital collection, there are inevitably some intriguing or truly remarkable items in my collection that I may share from time to time, including interesting samples from a variety of legal texts and judicial archives from the Qing period (1644-1911).

The Rise of the Qing Juridical Field and Its Impact on Judicial and Legal Culture - Max Planck Law Drawing on the insights of prior scholarship, Professor Chen’s speech will inquire an expansive legal community in late imperial China and further challenge the once-dominant view in traditional histo...

The ‘China, Law, and Society’ Initiative hosts the online lecture on 28 November. Li Chen (@lchen2024.bsky.social) examines the emergence of a late imperial legal community and its role in shaping Qing judicial culture: law.mpg.de/event/the-ri... #InitiativeEvent