Simon Stern

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!

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):
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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.

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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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...

They don’t want you to hear this song.

yikes! I guess that must have been more painful.

The Dental Review

The Dental Review, 1892: "Bananas are again plenty in the market , and we frequently see some very expeditious moves , aided by the treacherous " peel " as we pace the streets."
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Rule 6(f) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides: "An indictment may be found only upon the concurrence of 12 or more jurors." And Rule 6(c) emphasizes the requirement that 12 jurors shall "find" each indictment by its provision that the foreman "shall keep a record of the number of jurors concurring in the finding of every indictment * * *." The requirement of the Criminal Rules that every indictment must be "found" by at least 12 grand jurors is a further specification of the Fifth Amendment's command that " [n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.

it just ain't that hard to understand Rule 6(f) of the Fed R Crim P. Not one of those you need to read a lot of cases and lawyertalk to get ...

There's a little book we like to call the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Not a bad idea to read it first if you plan to prosecute a federal case.

Melissa Ganz, Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/expl...

posting the full ToC for those who'd like to see it

So many fantastic contributions to this issue, thanks @juliestonepeters.bsky.social and Lindsay Stern for organizing it!

My incredible book cover is based on an illustration drawn from this!

Miller, D.A., heart of, broken by a cardiologist [see index]

I demand sandwich-proof vests!!

I demand one of those immediate appeal injunc stop do-over things!!

a proud tradition since 1670! utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/a683f3...

shouldn't that be - The Ovaltine Office?