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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 2d

A Biedermeier rocket. 👌

Utilitas - The Word That Changes Everything? | Edinburgh Law School

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 2d

The lambs, Clarice. Eeek.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a hybrid option available for joining online.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 3d

Join us for this event on Friday. Hybrid.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 4d

See also cats.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 8d

What? You mean you haven’t gotten up at 4 am this morning to meditate for 3 hours while manifesting world peace? Slacker!

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 9d

Zero-eth. 😃

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 11d

It’s publication day, folks. Available from the website of the Press or from Amazon. May you find it useful in your own work.

#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
#RomanLaw

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 11d

I had an email today from “miss Tatiana oligarch” wanting to discuss a business opportunity. Honestly, that’s just phoning it in.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 11d

Sublime.

@armanddangour.bsky.social

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 13d

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 13d

The Latin word for dad joke is laughterfamilias.

Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 13d

The Latin word for dad joke is laughterfamilias.

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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 15d

Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna

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The so-called Byzantine Empire, which existed for more than a thousand years with Constantinople as its capital, demonstrates the birth of a new world with the wedding of Western and Eastern tradit…

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15d

Here’s how I sometimes start a new project.

First I buy a fancy new notebook.

Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page.

Third I never look at it again.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 15d

#AncientLaw - early November. Good line-up.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 16d

Such a sad end to Big Bird.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 16d

A justification is NEVER needed. Just saying.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 18d

A rush-through. Like a drive-through, but faster.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 18d

Well done! 👏

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 19d

Is HC ResearchGate?

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 21d

Preach it from the hilltops.

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 21d

Seriously peer-reviewers, this is not 19th century and we are (I hope!) no longer publishing in Mitteilungen der Akademie für Geschichte der Gelehrtengesellschaft Göttingen. Let people actually submit writing that others want to read and stop policing "academic style".

Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 21d

Returning to article peer review comments (which boil down to 'take out all the good bits and the jokes') and longing for death

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 21d

Seriously peer-reviewers, this is not 19th century and we are (I hope!) no longer publishing in Mitteilungen der Akademie für Geschichte der Gelehrtengesellschaft Göttingen. Let people actually submit writing that others want to read and stop policing "academic style".

Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 21d

Returning to article peer review comments (which boil down to 'take out all the good bits and the jokes') and longing for death

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 22d

I, too, wonder what’s a good alternative. Let me know if you discover one.

link.springer.com/collections/...

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 23d

The Pragmatics of Legal Argumentation

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: The Pragmatics of Legal Argumentation. Special issue article publications ...

link.springer.com

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 29d

“Unfunded” indeed. If one’s contract includes a percentage of time for research and scholarship, as most do, then anything produced in that context is funded.

Also, given the literal lottery that is research funding in the UK, where are these “funds” supposed to come from?

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 29d

See Husa 2025 etc etc.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 29d

Here, kitty kitty!