Alma Diamond

I'm trying to be back on the internet but it's bleak out here. I'm giving up for today. I leave this offering: a (poorly taken) picture of Pudlo Pudlat's "Saddled Muskox" - look at its adorable footsies! - taken at a recent visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Choreography of Consent: Experiments in Dance/Law Research The Choreography of Consent: AHRC Network that brings together dance practitioners, legal scholars, and policymakers to explore new ways of working across dance and law.

Circulating a call for papers on how consent is used in dance and movement, please share widely!

www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/cen...

Thank you @miottoluc.bsky.social and @philosophy-law.bsky.social for this conversation! I loved talking to Legal Phi about my work.

Iris Murdoch, preaching to me on the job market (albeit without gender-neutral pronouns)

Excited to be on the job market with a paper about a question I have obsessed over since 2015: what is going on with foreseeability in contract? I argue two distinct ideas are at work, offering guidance for courts and practitioners and a lesson for theory papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Same.

a dog is swimming in a blue pool and looking at the camera ALT: a dog is swimming in a blue pool and looking at the camera

This fell across my timeline, and it feels very June 2025 to me.

Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social !

Diamond on Hart and Raz on Legal Reasoning, buff.ly/HzbOCsK - Alma Diamond (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Law in Society: Defending Hart (Res Publica) on SSRN.

On father’s day, I’m grateful for this guy, master of the afternoon nap. (That’s a painting by my aunt, we need an aunt day too)

Those geese! I had such a love hate relationship with them. More love than is reasonable, I think.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Back from a social media break to share a new piece on the Raz-Hart debate. Thank you to so many who helped with this project, especially @glexareen.bsky.social and @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social. I'm working on a follow up, there's much more to say on all this.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#PhilosophyJobs #Philosophy

Criminal Court in South Africa Confirms Charges in Historic First Prosecution of the Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid [Gerhard Kemp is professor of criminal law at UWE Bristol, and extraordinary professor of public law at Stellenbosch University] On Monday, 14 April 2025, the high court in Johannesburg issued an i…

opiniojuris.org/2025/04/29/c... My comment on developments in the first prosecution of apartheid as a crime against humanity and the issue of prescription.

You can get yours as well! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawles...

Huge congrats to you both!

This looks really interesting, I am looking forward to reading it.

Abstract - Trading Acres - forthcoming Yale Law Journal - Jessica A Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney - Farms are places where people live their lives, sustain their families, and produce food and fiber for the wider community. And now, farms are assets swept up into global financial channels—converting before our eyes from repositories of the best of our agrarian ideals into paper playthings for the very rich. This asset-class-ification of farmland echoes patterns of financialization occurring across other elements of our daily lives, including housing, and compounds wider crises of concentration and industrialization in agriculture. But as an active land grab unfolds across rural America, farmland’s recent capture by absentee investors is particularly concerning. Farmland’s conversion to asset class threatens rural livelihoods, agriculture and food system resilience, and economic and spatial justice. In this article, we argue that Wall Street’s arrival at rural America’s gate is not merely a market trend but rather the product of deep social choices governing the accumulation of investor wealth: property, corporate, and securities law. We explore the ways in which these deep structures of our legal system—from the primacy of market logics to a range of biases that skew our spatial, temporal, and social relations—constitute the conditions for this profound transformation in the way farmland, as a basic and essential rural resource, is being integrated into the modern capital economy. Together, business and property law create the conditions for land concentration, rural depopulation, environmental degradation, and labor exploitation. Today’s rural land grab is meeting little resistance. But historically, investor-owned farmland was seen as a deep and politically-motivating threat to rural life. We situate past reform attempts to rein in financialized farmland and conclude that many attempts failed because modest doctrinal interventions result in playing shell gam…

As markets churn and world orders reset, @jamesftierney.bsky.social and I have a new piece forthcoming in Yale Law Journal that couldn't be more timely. "Trading Acres" traces the risks of farmland financialization and analyzes the role of law in this ongoing rural land grab. 🧵

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I'm doing an AMA on Crooked Media's "Friends of the Pod" Discord on *Mon. April 14th* at 3 PM PT/6 PM ET!

You can sign up for Friends of the Pod (& get access to the community Discord, & ad-free episodes of some Crooked pods) here: crooked.supercast.com?coupon=Lawless

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Legislative Intent and the Hard Problem of Content - Law and Philosophy The general aim of this paper is to investigate how philosophical problems with the notion of mental content affect the debate about legislative intent. Specifically, the aim is to define and criticiz...

New off the press, will be of particular interest to @philosophy-law.bsky.social, @lawstuff.bsky.social, @anuragdeb.bsky.social and many others

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

BUSINESS FORUM; THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS (Published 1984)

Stumbled (doomscrolled) into this article from 1984 today: www.nytimes.com/1984/02/05/b...

I took a two month or so break from social media, can recommend. But I am back - I’ve missed you all. Here, have a picture of the puppy attending my contracts seminar this term.

Check out @umichlaw.bsky.social faculty fellow @almadiamond.bsky.social 's review of Tom Adam’s new piece on Criteria of Legal Validity https://buff.ly/4hXfH6F #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #WomeninAcademia

I reviewed Tom Adams's new piece on Criteria of Legal Validity on @jotwell.bsky.social : check it out! (And read Tom's paper, it is great). juris.jotwell.com/clarifying-l...

A Politics of Belonging

Join us Mon. Feb. 17th 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"A Politics of Belonging"

@avramalpert with Alexis Papazoglou
on the need for a conception of belonging that enables people to feel comfortable enough to be different.

#Philosophy #PhilSky #PhilEvent

Register here:

Hilary term card - JDG

We are now here too! 🥳

Follow us for events on Jurisprudence in Oxford.

Here is our termcard, in case you haven't seen it:

In “Bootstrapped: A (Qualified) Defense of Practice-Based Constitutional Argument,” @umichlaw.bsky.social Prof. @almadiamond.bsky.social’s defends such arguments but points out that they must choose between wide and narrow conceptions of legal validity. https://buff.ly/40H1eWx

#WomenAlsoKnowLaw

Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social for highly recommending “Hares or Hounds?”. Any and all comments are very welcome.