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Doug Coulson @dougcoulson.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 4d

not to mention the cost of curtilage!

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 6d

"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 · 8d

Preorder here!

The New Old Style - Nebraska Press

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 11d

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?

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 11d

"[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."

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 13d

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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.

neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 14d

@benjaminnathans.bsky.social latest book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause has been #shortlisted for The 2025 Cundill History Prize. Listen to his interview on @historyextra.bsky.social with Danny Bird here: buff.ly/FgwuOEL

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 17d

Honestly, it is so hilariously inept that it reads as satire.

Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 19d

In "Falling Far and Fast," Yale Law Dean Robert Post, a leading First Amendment Scholar, writes that "for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered." verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...

I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years, and in all that time I have been more or less confident that basic minima of freedom of speech would remain unscathed in the United States. It was the one constitutional right that inspired widespread allegiance and agreement. But this week, for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered. Authoritarianism, with its trademark suppression of free political discussion, looms on our horizon.

Wheel of power
Since the 1930s, when the Supreme Court first began to protect First Amendment rights, it has safeguarded freedom of speech because “the maintenance of the opportunity for free political discussion to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes may be obtained by lawful means, an opportunity essential to the security of the Republic, is a fundamental principle of our constitutional system.” For all its many failings and lapses, the American Court has largely defended the First Amendment “as the guardian of our democracy,” seeking to construct a system in which “authority . . . is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.”

The First Amendment embodies the basic Aristotelian principle of democracy: citizens must agree to take turns ruling and being ruled. Those out of power can make their case in the public sphere to alter public opinion and take control of government in the next election. Free speech ensures that those who are ruled will have the opportunity to persuade others to invest them with the authority to rule in the future. Free speech turns the wheel of power. To suppress speech is to freeze that wheel. It is to choke off pathways of change and hence, as Louis Brandeis pointed out long ago, “to discourage thought, hope and imagination” by stoking the “hate” of the repressed, which constitutes a “menace” to “stable government.”

Full text at https://verfassungsblog.de/turn-against-free-speech-america/

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 21d

LCH 2026 Conference Scheduled for June 17-18, 2026 at DePaul College of Law / @simon8.bsky.social
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LCH 2026 Conference Scheduled for June 17-18, 2026 at DePaul College of Law

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will hold its 2026 conference June 17-18, 2026 at the DePaul University Co...

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 21d

Now available electronically, if your library subscribes to Cambridge Core: Melissa Ganz, ed., British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

Cambridge Core - Legal History - British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

www.cambridge.org

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 7

do you even have to do that, in 1967? I mean, I see that it's a good idea, but I imagine many don't see the need for it.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · Sep 5

My book, _Say Hello to Metamodernism!_ has been reviewed in the journal _English Studies_, which I understand is a rather prestigious European journal. It's overall a positive review, with a few gentle critiques, which I like because it makes it feel more real.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FTKAC...

Say Hello to Metamodernism!: Understanding Today’s Culture of Ironesty, Felt Experience, and Emphatic Reflexivity

Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 1

my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reading and writing race in law and literature

Published in European Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 20

Jolene Zigarovich, Absent Husbands & Scandalous Plots: Presumption of Death & Its Bigamous Consequences journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawandhistrev.bsky.social @womenknowlaw.bsky.social @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @faithbee.bsky.social

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · Aug 18

Job opportunity for an historian at Monticello. This is the 4th time they've tried to fill the role this year (they seem to have given up trying to find a senior person and have dropped the PhD requirement). DM me if you want to know what it's like to work there.

www.monticello.org/thomas-jeffe...

Paycor Job Openings

at Monticello

www.monticello.org

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 18

Beth Boyens “Liable to the Vagrant Act”: Melancholic Vagrancy in Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok and Letters from New York: in ESQ: muse.jhu.edu/pub/84/artic... "Child aligns the female writer with the prostitute, female loiterer, and wanderer at whom the Vagrant Act was directed" @lpcprof.bsky.social

Project MUSE - “Liable to the Vagrant Act”: Melancholic Vagrancy in Lydia Maria Child’s <i>Hobomok</i> and <i>Letters from New York</i>

muse.jhu.edu

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Case of the blubbery blueberry

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 7

Did they at least name the hotel Paradise?

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 5

@lawandhistrev.bsky.social @jgienapp.bsky.social @geoffreykirsch.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social @nomideplume.bsky.social ‬

Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 5

Jonathan Atkins, Ratification’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

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 5

Jonathan Atkins, Ratification’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

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 5

Katharina Herget @kherget.bsky.social‬ & 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

Law as a Narrative Source: The Criminal Case Studies of Der Neue Pitaval | Journal of Open Humanities Data

openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Aug 5

Katharina Herget @kherget.bsky.social‬ & 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

Law as a Narrative Source: The Criminal Case Studies of Der Neue Pitaval | Journal of Open Humanities Data

openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com

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Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · Aug 4

📣Call for Papers 📣

I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊

Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Jul 30

Michael Lind Menna, "The Esquire and the Pettifogger: Reintroducing James Cobbe and Rethinking his Alopichos,": "the investigation of Cobbe’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...

Project MUSE - The Esquire and the Pettifogger: Reintroducing James Cobbe and Rethinking his Alopichos

muse.jhu.edu

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

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...

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