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Vigilante Injustice | Charlotte Rosen Two recent books take on the Bernie Goetz shooting—with differing results.

In 1984, Bernie Goetz shot—and nearly killed—four black teenagers on the New York City subway. A jury went on to acquit him of the most serious charges. @charlotteerosen.bsky.social reviews two recent books that revisit the shootings—with differing results.

The Political Economy of National Identity: a chapter with Moses Shayo for the Handbook of the Economics of Identity. We review econ & pol‑sci research on how national identities shape trade, welfare policy, conflict, and polarization.

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is this his handwriting?

'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'.
New preprint with @ianloader.bsky.social
We challenge the consensus that walkable neighbourhoods are more criminogenic.
We highlight two flaws in the literature: i) overreliance on police statistics; and ii) neglect of motoring offences.

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

For the 1st in a new series exploring the future that faces us all, David talks to S. M. Amadae about what nuclear weapons & the prospect of nuclear war have done to the human condition. Was 1945 the decisive watershed in the history of humanity?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Another new article of mine is officially out: “(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law,” (67 B.C L. Rev. 255 (2026): lnkd.in/eR9eF7Fv Abstract 👇 & v. short 🧵
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Cities Under Siege Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...

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Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

📢 Call for Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2026/2027!

📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026

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Property v. Guns: The Level-of-Generality Problem in Wolford Wolford v. Lopez presents the Supreme Court with a novel question: may states require property owners to affirmatively consent before armed persons enter private property that is held open to the public? Hawaii enacted such a default rule after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen instructed courts to assess modern gun regulations by analogy to historical restrictions that are “relevantly similar” in “how and why” they burden the right to armed self-defense. In Wolford, the parties have turned to colonial-era hunting statutes limiting armed entry onto private land, but they disagree fundamentally about what those laws represent. This Essay shows how Wolford crystallizes the level-of-generality problem embedded in Bruen’s historical framework. Outcomes often turn on the frame courts choose for “the relevant tradition”: defined too narrowly, no analogue fits; defined too broadly, almost anything does. Wolford poses that problem on both “why” and “how.” On “why,” the parties and lower courts dispute whether Founding-era hunting laws targeted “poaching” alone or broader concerns about armed trespass. On “how,” they dispute whether bans tied to “enclosed” or “improved” land map onto the modern category of “private property open to the public.” Reexamining the record through property history clarifies what the hunting laws can—and cannot—do in the analogical analysis. Even an “anti-poaching” frame does not resolve whether the laws addressed theft of game or a broader bundle of concerns including trespass, property damage, and violence associated with armed strangers. And “enclosure” and “improvement” functioned as publicly legible property signals—proxies for claim and notice—rather than precursors to contemporary zoning-era distinctions between residential and commercial space. The Essay closes by arguing that ... courts should be transparent about the level-of-generality choices ...

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear a big gun rights case - Wolford v. Lopez. I've posted some thoughts. Given the property dynamics here, I'm not sure balancing can be avoided in reconciling the serious level-of-generality problems the history poses. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Research Handbook on Legal Argumentation ‘This excellent volume is impressive in its expanse and depth. With a well-balanced mix of theoretical analyses and practical applications, these papers take the reader through the full range of issue...

This promises to be an absolute banger of a book.

Just take a look at that lineup 😍

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call for postdoc in religion and firearms at Wesleyan wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Our guest-edited symposium on Professionals and Professionalism(s) in International Criminal Justice is now out: all 6 articles, a practitioner roundtable and a co-authored editorial with @ilariazavoli.bsky.social and Dr Nora Stappert: academic.oup.com/jicj/issue

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Top 10 Posts of the Year for 2025 | Duke Center for Firearms Law

Top 10 Posts of the Year for 2025 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/12/top-...

Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...

‘You may reasonably object to the orthodox Freudian picture of the unconscious. But can we doubt that there is more, much more, to our individual and collective lives than that of which we are consciously aware?’

Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Daniel B. Yeager, Discursive Footnotes, forthcoming in Duquesne Law Review

In this article @ljil-leiden.bsky.social, @mattia800.bsky.social and I challenge the punishment-as-justice perspective that dominates atrocity redress and prevention, examining, with a focus on Gaza, how it can undermine prevention and fuel problematic retaliatory impulses.

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The 2025-26 Pembroke Publics Lecture
Judith Butler
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Submit your proposal: Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory Due December 15, 2025 11:59 PM EST Notification of Decision January 10, 2026 Conference Information April 10–12, 2026 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane G...

They are holding a conference on "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory" at Duke in April. Keynotes will include Michael Denning & Gayatri Spivak, among others.

Abstracts are due December 15th!!

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Behind Ancient Bars by Hadar Aviram - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu/books/behind... looking forward to this book

Conscription for Peace What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.

"What kind of people do we have to become in order to achieve peaceful cities, societies, and states?"

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins revisits William James's prescription for national conscription www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...

A glimpse of the Jewish left in 1920s Palestine Hanan Ayalti’s Yiddish novel "Boom and Chains," now in English, portrays the external and internal struggles of the Jewish pioneers

Excited to read this book. Unlike his contemporaries Ayalti's first novel about the Russian pale was written in Hebrew and with his second that takes place in Palestine he moved to Yiddish. The first was great but this has never been translated into Hebrew. @forward.com
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Civilizing Contention by Rana B. Khoury | Paperback | Cornell University Press In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury asserts that to understand civilian and refugee activism in war, we must regard the international actors and organizations that enter the scene to help. When.....

To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, and to support emerging scholars, I'd like to buy and mail copies to ten graduate students.

If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!

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This author suggested changing the Bluebook rule for films. (Use the director, not producer). Instead, the new version now has different rules for "commercial" and "noncommercial" films, which leads to this problem.
cc: @brianlfrye.bsky.social
#Bluebook
#LegalCitation
#LegalWriting

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This is amazing. For shame, Bluebook editors! Rafi is right & you should adopt his suggestion.

@brianlfrye.bsky.social @matanchic.bsky.social may be of interest