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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 6d
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 ...
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.

Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 6d
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.
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 7d
Melissa Ganz, Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/expl...
Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
The law underwent significant developments in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted older doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial soc...
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 13d
posting the full ToC for those who'd like to see it
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 13d
So many fantastic contributions to this issue, thanks @juliestonepeters.bsky.social and Lindsay Stern for organizing it!
juliestonepeters.bsky.social juliestonepeters.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social · 14d
TECHNIQUES OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, ed Lindsay Stern & me! Essays: Emily Apter, Jeannine DeLombard, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Renisa Mawani, Andreas PhilippopoulosM, Alain Pottage, Paul Saint-Amour, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Lindsay, @simon8.bsky.social, Patricia Williams! online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Volume 172 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press
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juliestonepeters.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social · 14d
TECHNIQUES OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, ed Lindsay Stern & me! Essays: Emily Apter, Jeannine DeLombard, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Renisa Mawani, Andreas PhilippopoulosM, Alain Pottage, Paul Saint-Amour, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Lindsay, @simon8.bsky.social, Patricia Williams! online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Volume 172 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 17d
My incredible book cover is based on an illustration drawn from this!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 19d
Miller, D.A., heart of, broken by a cardiologist [see index]
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 19d
I demand sandwich-proof vests!!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 19d
I demand one of those immediate appeal injunc stop do-over things!!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 19d
a proud tradition since 1670! utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/a683f3...
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 20d
shouldn't that be - The Ovaltine Office?

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 20d
I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 21d
sorry, my bad attempt at humor ... all 3 were known for writing in the first person, inhabiting the persona of someone who is semi-illitrit

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 21d
Excited to reveal the cover of my book, MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, which is available for pre-order now!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 22d
I think they are using "much less" to mean "not even" -- a long-attested usage going back to George Ade, Anita Loos, and Ring Lardner

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 23d
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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Doug Coulson @dougcoulson.bsky.social · 24d
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 26d
The Andrew formerly known as Prince
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 26d
A bad dude was ol' Ozymandias
He wasn't exactly the dandiest
The statue he built
Crumbled into the silt
With a few stones to cover his sandy ass
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Oct 22
CFP: Law Culture & Humanities 28th Annual Conference @ DePaul, Chicago, June 17/18 2026 lawculturehumanities.com/event/2026-t... We welcome proposals for papers, roundtables, work-in-progress sessions, you name it!
2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference - Law, Culture, and the Humanities
2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference June 17, 2026 @ 8:00 am - June 18, 2026 @ 7:00 pm DePaul University College of Law 25 E Jackson Blvd. Chicago, Illinois 60604 United States + Google Map Share this...
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Oct 22
20% discount on Melissa Ganz, ed., British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP) : asecs.org/2025/10/13/b...
Book Publication: British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century – ASECS
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Doug Coulson @dougcoulson.bsky.social · Oct 10
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Oct 6
not to mention the cost of curtilage!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Oct 4
"Something painful encloses something joyful and now I am enclosing that painful thing as a way to assert my joy." -- Robert Gluck, "Denny Smith"

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · Oct 2
Preorder here!
The New Old Style - Nebraska Press
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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · Oct 2
Absolutely thrilled with the cover @univnebpress.bsky.social has designed for my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (coming August ‘26)! And special thanks to the wonderful and generous Cole Closser for allowing me to use their art.
Cover of a book titled The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics, by Matthew Levay. The cover features three vertically-arranged panels. The middle features the book’s title against a black background, while the top and bottom feature colorful drawings of a boy with white circles for eyes, done in a style clearly reminiscent of 1920s and 1930s-era newspaper comics and designed to appear as if they are printed on old newsprint.

Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 30
By implication he responds to her statement that she has acted "to the best of [her] ability" but it's interesting that the judge doesn't comment more directly on that part. That is to say -- maybe she did act to the best of her ability, and if so, what does that say about her ability?
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 30
"[I]t strains credulity to think the RIF was 'uncertain[]' or 'a mere possibility' as the defendants repeatedly represented to this Court. ... The defendants' obfuscation ... has wasted precious judicial time and would readily support contempt proceedings."
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 27
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Reading this today, my second by Sully both thanks to @neglectedbooks.com. It’s inexplicable to me that the verve for republishing mid century novelists like Comyns et al hasn’t found its way to Sully yet.
neglectedbooks.com Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Aug 6
Kathleen Sully uses death as punctuation in A Man Talking to Seagulls (1959). The sixth of her novels that I read, it led me to speculate that two themes dominate her work: life is chaotic and rarely comprehensible; and death is inevitable and never more than a breath away.

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