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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

Save the Date! @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social LCH Conference June 17-18, 2026 (Grad Student Workshop June 16, 2026) at DePaul in Chicago, USA// Deadline: Jan 31, 2026// More Info Soon: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers: 2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Papers: Conceptualising the Demise of Law for the upcoming World Congress of the Int'l Assoc Phil of Law & Social Phil// Meeting June 28-Jul 3, 2026 in Istanbul// Deadline: Nov 21, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers: Conceptualising the Demise of Law at the World Congress of the International Association Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities

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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 17d

Anyone with an interesting Postdoc idea related to critical legal theory, law/exception, public order, policing, strikes or critical engagements with human rights, drop me a line. The timeline is short on this (23rd of Oct) but its well worth applying: www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - Research Ireland

The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and manag...

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 18d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 13d

Brilliant new special issue of Law and Critique available on Memory Politics: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On Memory, Law, and Politics: An Introduction - Law and Critique

Law and Critique -

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Adam Hanna @adamhanna.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! £24, so a bit easier on your library budgets

Law and Literature: The Irish Case | Home

Adam Hanna is Lecturer in Irish Literature in the Department of English at University College Cork.

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Marie Hadley @drmarieip.bsky.social · Aug 31

Over the moon to see my paper with artist Travis De Vries has been published in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. Our paper is framed through a series of conversations about art, law, and justice.

You can read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

Entropy Awakening or Tear it Down? A conversation about contested statues

This paper explores the challenges faced by states with colonial or slavery histories in addressing contested statues or monuments whose messages no longer align with contemporary societal values. ...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 9d

Out now in The Burlington: my review of Martinez & Roman Female Printmakers, Printsellers & Print Publishers: The Imprint of Women 1700-1830'. "pushes
back against the archival gender bias
that has informed
record creation & preservation"; important focus on prints, understudied cf to painting.

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Centre Of Law and Society @clscardiff.bsky.social · Aug 16

A new Meet the Book Author post had been added to the CLS website 📖

Join us as Russell L. Dees shares insights into his book 'Great Trials and the Law in the Historical Imagination: A Law and Humanities Approach'.

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Centre Of Law and Society @clscardiff.bsky.social · Sep 1

A new Meet the Book Author post had been added to the CLS website 📖

Join us as Hendrik Hartog shares insights into his book 'Nobody's Boy and His Pals: The story of Jack Robbins and the boys' brotherhood republic'.

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

UBC Public Humanities Hub Student Reading Group with Author Nilo Tabrizy's, For the Sun After Long Nights (Penguin Random House) [Meeting: October 27 & 29, 2025] More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/ubc-public-h...

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · Oct 12

We're currently heading towards ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS of our #OpenAccess books. If you're interested in any of our recent titles, such as Before Grenfell, Law, Humanities and the COVID Crisis, or The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, download them for free and help us reach this milestone! uolpress.co.uk

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Panu Minkkinen @panuminkkinen.bsky.social · Dec 17

In this episode of ‘room with a view’. In Hong Kong for the annual conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia. Good papers, lovely people, and even the jet lag is just a minor inconvenience when you can spend those sleepless hours staring at a view like this.

View of skyscraper and tall buildings in Hong Kong.

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Aug 15

My department at Morehouse is hiring. If you study race, law, and American politics and want a tenure-track job at a place that will support your work better than most, please apply.

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The Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, Media & Arts (HSSMA) invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Morehouse College. Candidates should be trained in the area of American politics, with a specialization in public law, and should be prepared to teach courses in constitutional law, race and law, and civil liberties. Responsibilities include teaching courses (a 2-3 load); advising and mentoring students; executing administrative duties related to the pre-law program; developing and maintaining a scholarly research and publication agenda; and service to the department, the HSSMA Division and the College. We also encourage faculty to be active in soliciting external funding through grants and other sources.

We are looking for someone who thinks creatively about their teaching, engages in scholarship, and can be committed to the mission of Morehouse College—to develop men with disciplined minds who lead lives of leadership and service by emphasizing the intellectual and character development of its students and by assuming a special responsibility for teaching the history and culture of Black people.

The Political Science department offers a broad range of courses, including majors in Urban Studies and International Studies. Applicants should have experience teaching political science concepts to a diverse group of students including non-majors. We welcome candidates who can develop innovative first-year experience (FYE) courses for our general education program.

Questions may be directed to the Department Chair at pscfacultysearch@morehouse.edu

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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · Sep 2

To view presentation abstracts, our amazing lineup of speakers, & registration for online attendance, please visit the event page below. We hope you will join us for this exciting event! It will be streamed, but not recorded. We appreciate your understanding. japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...

A screencap with the same poster as above and the text: The study of premodern Japanese law often begins with law codes and legal documents, their form and function. In recent decades, scholars have also begun to think about the social life of the law—the ways in which law reverberates through social structures and practices, and how it is lived in ways that inevitably exceed or diverge from its text. This socio-cultural turn has further inspired studies of law’s place in culture. Recent research has begun to explore how law is performed in courts and in drama, used metaphorically in literature, woven into religion, and implicated in expressions, performances, and expectations of gender. In this symposium, we hope to address the complex intersections and fluid boundaries between law, culture, and the humanities in premodern Japan, focusing primarily pre-1600.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 14d

We are hiring in the Lehigh U journalism department, a tenure-track position focused on technology law and policy. We take a multidisciplinary approach to platform governance and AI here that includes social sciences/humanities. Opportunity for someone wanting to make an impact. Spread the word!

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Participation: 2026 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars [Deadline: Dec 1, 2025] More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-par...

Call for Participation: 2026 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Abstracts: Stories of Separation and Gathering in Legal and Creative Imaginaries for Legal Humanities and Creative Writing Workshop [Deadline: Dec 1, 2025] More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-abs...

Call for Abstracts: Stories of Separation and Gathering in Legal and Creative Imaginaries for Legal Humanities and Creative Writing Workshop – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Contributions: Abolitionist Imagination--Arts Praxis, Process, and Pedagogy in Action for special issue of Crime, Media, Culture [Deadline: Dec 15, 2025] More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-con...

Call for Contributions: Abolitionist Imagination– Arts Praxis, Process, and Pedagogy in Action – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Papers & Posters: Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference 2026 @slsauk.bsky.social and LHA-- Dance/Law Stream (Deadline: Oct 30 & Dec 18) More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers & Posters: Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference 2026 Dance/Law Stream – Canadian Network of Law & Humanities

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 2d

POSTPONED: The Vriend Event has been postponed until 2026. Stay tuned for updated information.

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Law and Society Association @lawandsociety.bsky.social · 21d

Have you developed your paper or session idea for the LSA 2026 Annual Meeting yet? Submissions close on October 21, 2025!

Theme: Sanctuary

Submission requirements: bit.ly/LSASF2026

Submit here (LSA Login Required): bit.ly/LSA2601

#CallForPapers #LSASF2026

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 15d

UBC-Melbourne Exchange Lecture- "A Right to Record? Patients with Smartphones, Doctors with AI, and the Law Caught in Between" with Dr. Megan Prictor on Thursday, Oct 9 12:30pm-1:45pm Rm 122 Allard and Zoom @allard.ubc.ca
Info: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 15d

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies University of Lucerne Call for Visiting Fellows 2026- Open to PhD-Postdocs working at intersections of law, humanities& social sciences with diverse focus on critical & theoretical approaches. Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...

Visiting Fellows

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