too true!

The Hardy Men | Daniel Lefferts In 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a

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.

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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.

Mod Crim L Rev 2:2 (2026): Inducing Intimacy: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud - Modern Criminal Law Review Chloë Kennedy’s Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge 2024) tackles an important and timely topic that resonates across jurisdictions worldwide—the regulation of deceptively ind...

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/...

Close Third: The Narrative Formation of Modern Intersubjectivity | Critical Inquiry: Vol 52, No 3 Abstract Framed as a critique of Timothy Bewes’s Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age and Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism and focusing on classic novels by Ja...

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"

Judge Zahid Quraishi Ejects New Jersey Federal Prosecutor From Court, Orders Testimony on Office Leadership Structure (Gift Article) Judge Zahid Quraishi of U.S. District Court ejected a federal prosecutor from his courtroom and ordered the three leaders designated to run the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey to return to court ...

try this www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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

Law and Justice in Song: Murder Ballads and Popular Music This book examines the murder ballad form, songs about death and killing, from a legal history perspective. It is held that taking on the long history of the murder ballad is a way that we can underst...

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 Cambridge Core - Jurisprudence - Performing Law

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

Keeping Hold | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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...

Performing Law Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - Performing Law

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...

Lost Plots | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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!

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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):
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European Journal of English Studies The Place of Race in Law & Literature; Guest Editors: Andrew Bricker, Cedric Essi and Elise Wang. Volume 29, Issue 1 of European Journal of English Studies

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.

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If you have access to Oxford Scholarship Online, you can now read Geoffrey Baker's new book, Belief in Evidence in the 19C Novel, an analysis of key aspects of evidence law in conjunction with nineteenth-century novels: age, experience, character, and otherness global.oup.com/academic/pro...