'Fiction, failure, and the anti-carceral imagination' by Phil Crockett Thomas for the Utopia and Failure Workshop at Newcastle in September. Co-hosted by the Utopia and Failure network and Abolition Feminism for Ending Sexual Violence Collective youtube.com/watch?v=nrVQle…

Waiting outside my office. The skeleton is reading Stambovsky v. Ackley, 169 A.D.2d 254 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991) and his dog is reading Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. R. 175 (N.Y. 1805).

Please come and join us as we discuss our toolkit, "What’s in a Joke? Humor in Free Speech Jurisprudence and Content Moderation". Register here 👇 globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/events/whats-i…

State Constitutional Law Symposium call for papers from the Georgia Law Review! Draft deadline of December 2! I'll be there! Details: app.scholasticahq.com/conversation/q…

Breach of promise actions were proceedings, usually but not invariably brought by a woman, seeking damages for a broken promise to marry. Judges being aware of the law and most usually beyond the proposing age at the date of their appointments, breach of promise actions

Funk on Sect and Superstition: The Protestant Framework of American Codification Columbia University / hedgehogsandfoxes.org/index.php/2024…… via HedgehogsandFoxes

In June 1897, as security precautions in Dublin escalated in anticipation of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, the caretaker of St Michan’s Church, beside the Four Courts, ungraciously refused entry to a tall, handsome woman carrying a bundle of wreaths. The woman was Maud Gonne, the

Newly Published: The Routledge History of Crime in America (James Campbell and Vivien Miller, eds., Routledge, 2024) Routledge Books / hedgehogsandfoxes.org/index.php/2024…

A new research article on the role of storytelling in Law and legal critique, with a focus on Frank Herbert's #Dune - by Stephen M. Young University of Otago Law & Literature Simon Stern lawlithum Canadian Network of Law & Humanities LawCultureHumanities Dr Elena Cooper

A meeting of sister journals: panel on law and humanities publishing, with me as editor of Law and Humanities Journal and Marco Wan of Law & Literature with @ValeriaVazGuev convening and co-organising with Danish Sheikh, at the lawlithum PhD day at The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

As the famous Punch illustration of Mr Bigwig KC and his clerk (image below) shows, the barrister's clerk is a key part of English legal life, responsible for, among other things, negotiating and collecting fees on behalf of the barrister. Irish barristers, on the other hand,

Nelson on San(d)ford Ryan H. Nelson The Green Bag / hedgehogsandfoxes.org/index.php/2025…

Who takes 'responsibility' when judges are called upon to apply an unjust law against people who, like Josef K., have done nothing wrong? NEW ARTICLE by Lukas van den Berge and Jeanne Gaakeer Erasmus School of Law reconsiders a Dutch legal scandal and #Kafka's The Trial doi.org/10.1080/175214…

Research Handbook on Law and Time, edited by Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore Contributors incl Jeannie Suk Gersen Daniel Shaviro Daniel Hemel tomginsburg Yonathan Arbel Abdi Aidid Jonathan Masur More information ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781… Read free chapter ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978103…

From the Daily News (London), 10 July 1923, this story of a distinctly fishy series of events whereby an unnamed Irish solicitor’s advertisement for heirs to an estate came to the notice of the Scottish family concerned – a true story, no codding!

This is the philosophy subject for the 2025 entrance exam of France's École Normale Supérieure: just two words in quotation marks, "Tu dois" ("You must"). The candidates had 6 hours to write their essay around this 😅 For those who aren't familiar with it, École Normale

On this day in 1775, the badassary of Samuel Whittemore.

I had the pleasure this week of taking a lovely group of visitors through the halls of the iconic Four Courts, Dublin. As there were no handouts, I promised to put the content of the tour up online. Those interested in a bird's eye view of the incredible history of this