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Law & Literature, legal history, criminal law, IP, 18c/19C British literature || U of Toronto Law & English || OUP Law & Lit series http://tinyurl.com/y7fhvh36 || Oxford Hbk of Law & Humanities http://tinyurl.com/y95rdzl3 || SSRN https://tinyurl.com/SSRNss

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could it be the 2006 "80th anniversary" ed.? reviews of that ed. quote this phrase as part of the publisher's billing

10.08.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Case of the blubbery blueberry

07.08.2025 20:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did they at least name the hotel Paradise?

07.08.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Law and History Review: A Call for an Editor [We have the following announcement from the Publications Committee of the American Society for Legal History.ย  DRE]ย  After eight years of exceptional service, Gautham Rao is stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of the Law & History Review, which is sponsored by the American Society for Legal History and published by Cambridge University Press.ย  Founded in 1983 and published quarterly, LHR is the top journal in the field of legal history. The ASLH Publications Committee invites applications for the position. Applicants should be members of the American Society for Legal History who are accomplished legal historians, have the intellectual range to work with manuscripts from different historical periods and geographic regions, are conversant with both law and history, and welcome the opportunity to identify and promote the best scholarship in the field.ย  They should be prepared to request release time and other departmental or institutional support. The editorโ€™s responsibilities include soliciting manuscripts in all fields of legal history, shepherding submitted manuscripts through the peer review and editorial processes, working with the journalโ€™s print and electronic publisher Cambridge University Press, and maintaining collaborative relationships with the journalโ€™s Associate Editors, its Editorial Board and the ASLH Board of Directors. Production management is the responsibility of Cambridge University Press. Appointment is for an initial five-year term.ย ย  Interested scholars should send an electronic version of their current c.v. and a statement of what they would like to accomplish as editor of the journal by September 15, 2025, to the Chairs of the Publications Committee: Daniel Ernst (ernst@georgetown.edu) and Catherine Fisk (cfisk@berkeley.edu).ย  Inquiries about the position should be directed to the same email addresses or by phone to Daniel Ernst at 240.506.2220.
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@lawandhistrev.bsky.social @jgienapp.bsky.social @geoffreykirsch.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social @nomideplume.bsky.social โ€ฌ

05.08.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Jonathan Atkins, Ratificationโ€™s Reason journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... : ratification as an act of legal poiesis, a formal and poetic making of legitimacy theorized in terms of poetics @lpcprof.bsky.social @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @law.stanford.edu

05.08.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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@oabooksnetwork.bsky.social
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@ojcollective.bsky.social

05.08.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Law as a Narrative Source: The Criminal Case Studies of Der Neue Pitaval | Journal of Open Humanities Data

Katharina Herget @kherget.bsky.socialโ€ฌ & Thomas Weitin, Law as a Narrative Source: The Criminal Case Studies of Der Neue Pitaval openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

570 criminal case studies

published as OA resource

fantastic source law/narrative/history

@lpcprof.bsky.social

05.08.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Project MUSE - The Esquire and the Pettifogger: Reintroducing James Cobbe and Rethinking his Alopichos

Michael Lind Menna, "The Esquire and the Pettifogger: Reintroducing James Cobbe and Rethinking his Alopichos,": "the investigation of Cobbeโ€™s commitment to the study and practice of law implicates an investigation of his enthusiasm for the theatre, and vice versa" muse.jhu.edu/pub/286/arti...

30.07.2025 19:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Khan on Civil Rights Lawyering and the Reconstruction of Law and Literature Almas Khan, Civil Rights Lawyering and the Reconstruction of Law and Literature, at 29 European Journal of English Studies 1 (2025). Here i...

Khan on Civil Rights Lawyering and the Reconstruction of Law and Literature / H/t @simon8.bsky.social
lawlit.blogspot.com/2025/07/khan...

17.07.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Latest articles from European Journal of English Studies Browse the latest articles and research from European Journal of English Studies

3 great articles in Euro. J. English Stud.: Almas Khan, Civil Rights Lawyering and the Reconstruction of Law and Literature; Emma Brush, โ€œIn my own handwritingโ€: Phillis Wheatley and the Creative Commons; Jack Quirk, Colour Bar Forms in Sam Selvonโ€™s Windrush Novels www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/0/0

17.07.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A really wide ranging and thoughtful essay on the corporation and the rule of law with huge implications for our times too. But a real treat for scholars of the #18thc!

17.07.2025 18:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

just out: Aditya Banerjee, Personifying the Rule of Law: Warren Hastings and the Cultural Trials of Corporate Sovereignty journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

17.07.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Check out our newly released special issue, "Reproductive Objects"! Through a collection of stellar articles, it traces the material "stuff" that constitutes the uneven tapestries of power, authority, and knowledge making around human reproduction.
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...

07.07.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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'Mysterious Black Goo' Found on Ship Docked in Cleveland โ€” and Alien and X-Files Fans See the Writing on the Wall - IGN An "unexpected life form" that has the look of a pitch black, tar-like substance was found on a boat docking in Cleveland, Ohio โ€” and needless to say, fans of both the Alien and X-Files franchises are...

www.ign.com/articles/mys...

Not now, alien goo. Weโ€™re busy. Read the room.

06.07.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Analyzing 630k paintings since 1400 to show how art complements development indicators by revealing sentiments about living standards, uncertainty, and inequality, from Clรฉment Gorin, Stephan Heblich, and Yanos Zylberberg https://www.nber.org/papers/w33976

06.07.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet โ€“ and left thousands of children unable to spell Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills โ€“ with lasting consequences

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

06.07.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yes, this argleby bargleby really is too much!

02.07.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise by Richard N. Langlois is a definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era.

Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

25.06.2025 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dorothy Julia Colston-Baynes, AKA Dormer Creston, from a family photo.

Dorothy Julia Colston-Baynes, AKA Dormer Creston, from a family photo.

Dormer Creston (Dorothy Julia Colston-Baynes) believed that
โ€œHappiness consists in finding the right rut and never leaving it.โ€

neglectedbooks.com/?...

23.06.2025 13:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I fear I must doubt whether they are substantive constitutional, and by that I mean whether they are even substantive at all, or mere adjectival.

23.06.2025 02:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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now out in OUP's Law & Literature series: Birte Christ, Imagining the American Death Penalty global.oup.com/academic/pro...

02.06.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History This handbook examines the philosophy of the historical sciences and their synthesis in concepts like Big or Deep History. Written by interdisciplinary philosopโ€ฆ

With August 21, there is now a publication date for the The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and @david-cernin.bsky.social. For more information and pre-orders, check here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur....

30.05.2025 06:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Stern on Crime and Literature, Narrative, and Doctrine Simon Stern, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, has published Introduction: Crime and Literature, Narrative and Doctrine at 1 Modern Cr...

Stern on Crime and Literature, Narrative, and Doctrine /
lawlit.blogspot.com/2025/05/ster...

21.05.2025 14:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"dry goods"?

โ€œDry-goods! What are American dry-goods?โ€ asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.

โ€œAmerican novels,โ€ answered Lord Henry, helping himself to some quail.

15.05.2025 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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E. M. Forster: โ€œThe Novels of Virginia Woolfโ€ E. M. Forster on โ€œJacobโ€™s Roomโ€ and โ€œMrs. Dallowayโ€

MRS. DALLOWAY was published 100 years ago today. The following year, E.M. Forster reviewed it in The Yale Review.
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolfโ€™s novels to dateโ€”including what he called her โ€œexquisite and superbly constructedโ€ masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...

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English Short Title Catalogue

Some actually good news for early modernists, bibliographers, and catalogers: the beta ESTC is live!!! What an effing journey it's been trying to do research post-BL attack; it is a huge relief to see this progress datb.cerl.org/estc/ ๐Ÿ“œ๐Ÿ“š

13.05.2025 15:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

ESTC back, in beta form, at the Consortium of European Lirbaries.

Can't find any other information on this rebuild, on plans for it; and I can't see any licensing / copyright info.

#History #BookHistory ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ

12.05.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
6 Archives - Selva The Ends of Criticism

new Selva out: _The Ends of Criticism_, guest-edited by Chloรซ Julius and C. Oliver O'Donnell, with a stunning line-up of authors and topics in US art + art history in the 60s.

(appended is my review of an Israhel van Meckenem show curated by James Wehn at the Chazen....)

selvajournal.org/issue/six

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the life you save may be your own!

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