I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
too true!
too much genius: Daniel Lefferts on The Hardy Men www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... hat-tip @frankpasquale.bsky.social
yes, that seems right. Has anyone else commented on this passage - either to endorse or challenge it? It does sound like the kind of thing that could find its way into received wisdom and promote a lot of confusion.
out in Law Culture & Hum.: Jonathan Atkins, Ratification's Reason: journals.sagepub.com/share/CJYAPE... a poetic model of ratification with analogs in existing poems to identify its effects, then turning to the legal use of ratification and the epistemic qualities of legitimacy that follow from it
Just here to announce that the links linking me to Henry Fielding have never linked. Please eradicate any image you have of the World's Classics edition of Tom Jones.
Inducing Intimacy: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud - now out in MCLR+ crimlrev.net/2026/03/30/m...
I can only say ... "The Food Stays in the Kitchen: Everything I Needed to Know About Statutory Interpretation I Learned by the Time I was Nine" digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/...
anyone interested in free indirect discourse should read Loren Glass's "Close Third: The Narrative Formation of Modern Intersubjectivity" now out in CI www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... (paywalled) it is "a tool for facilitating intersubjectivity without any innate potential to liberate us"
yeah, someone who richly deserved it.
yes, funny thing about that, he thought he'd just drop by and say a few things, all unsubstantiated, to show how everything is just fine, who could object to that?
'prolem facu nutriri'. LAO/Cj.4/fol.36v
Anyone out there dealing with C16 punishments of pregnant women? I have a record that says that the court ordered the child to be provided for by speech ('prolem facu nutriri'). Any idea what this means in practice? There are a couple of crossings out, but I'm sure 'facu' is the word written. TIA
out from Routledge: Daniel Newman, Law and Justice in Song Murder Ballads and Popular Music www.routledge.com/Law-and-Just... @lpcprof.bsky.social
Performing Law is now published online, Open Access, extant virtually, as vibrant and vivid as a ventriloquist in a vivarium : www.cambridge.org/core/books/p... @juliestonepeters.bsky.social
just out from Cambridge: Kate Smith (U. of Birmingham), Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
out in Public Culture: Emily Apter, Carcerally Speaking: Fact Patterns & Practices of Speech; @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Unborn Fictions: Fetal Persons and Their Containers; @juliestonepeters.bsky.social On Cameras, Videos, and Law: 7 Theses & Meditation on Method read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...
due out next month, Open Access: Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces, ed Peter Goodrich, Anna Jayne Kimmel, & Bernadette Meyler, www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
for those in 18C, a great new book on interpolated stories in 18C fiction: Katherine G. Charles, Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Novel www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
yeah, real killer gotcha moment. gotta admit the man is a debate genius.
Stronger than a comma; able to contain an entire clause with a single mark!
The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Yeah, this is *legal* corpus linguistics. Not at all the same thing. Corpus linguistics in linguistics is actually kind of awesome. A little primer with examples in Part I here (and an explanation of why the two things share a name but not a methodology):
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
just out: The Place of Race in Law & Literature; Guest Editors: Andrew Bricker, Cedric Essi & @elisewang.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/2... w essays by Almas Khan, Emma Brush, @jackquirk.bsky.social, Faith Barter, more! @lpcprof.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social
My latest piece "Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius" has just been published in MFS' latest issue. Thanks to @moniquerooney.bsky.social, @tynedaile.bsky.social and those at CALC for letting me present an earlier version of this piece. Check it out over here: muse.jhu.edu/article/977805
Jack Quirk, "Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius" - just out in MFS: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... : Murnane puts to work settler-colonial myths of empty land, property, and possession; this work dramatizes the imaginative and juridical mechanisms by which terra nullius was rendered present and real.
I did not know that! But I believe it was when Kagan was dean? It certainly had a very dramatic effect.
As Dorothy Parker said, change one letter and you have the story of my life.
WINTER Term Card:
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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