Zach Herz
@zacharyherz.bsky.social
Rural jurist at the University of Colorado. All opinions yours.
Autumnal Read: @zacharyherz.bsky.social *The God and the Bureaucrat.*
Written with great verve and infused with far more humor than one expects or deserves to find in a tome about Roman law.
Written with great verve and infused with far more humor than one expects or deserves to find in a tome about Roman law.
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Me on Monday:
‘Good afternoon! My name is Zach Herz, I’m your Roman Civilization professor this fall, and Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post’
‘Good afternoon! My name is Zach Herz, I’m your Roman Civilization professor this fall, and Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post’
August 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Me on Monday:
‘Good afternoon! My name is Zach Herz, I’m your Roman Civilization professor this fall, and Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post’
‘Good afternoon! My name is Zach Herz, I’m your Roman Civilization professor this fall, and Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post’
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Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
The God and the Bureaucrat
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - The God and the Bureaucrat
www.cambridge.org
July 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Listen to the man!!
*The God and the Bureaucrat* is a remarkable work. Its blend of legal history, political history, and cultural history is simply dazzling. The smaller and larger arguments persuade. And even though the material is often complex, the prose is consistently snappy and stylish. What a first book!
Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
July 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Listen to the man!!
Reposted by Zach Herz
Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
The God and the Bureaucrat
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - The God and the Bureaucrat
www.cambridge.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
The God and the Bureaucrat
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - The God and the Bureaucrat
www.cambridge.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
2013-2025
Moose died this morning. He declined quickly, but with enough warning for me to come home, and we were able to give him a sendoff that was painless and dignified.
He got very old, very fast, and decided he was done. It was a good death. I just thought we would have so much more time.
Moose died this morning. He declined quickly, but with enough warning for me to come home, and we were able to give him a sendoff that was painless and dignified.
He got very old, very fast, and decided he was done. It was a good death. I just thought we would have so much more time.
July 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
2013-2025
Moose died this morning. He declined quickly, but with enough warning for me to come home, and we were able to give him a sendoff that was painless and dignified.
He got very old, very fast, and decided he was done. It was a good death. I just thought we would have so much more time.
Moose died this morning. He declined quickly, but with enough warning for me to come home, and we were able to give him a sendoff that was painless and dignified.
He got very old, very fast, and decided he was done. It was a good death. I just thought we would have so much more time.
Quote from a final (posted with permission):
“Without a doubt, Rome fell when Broadway began.”
“Without a doubt, Rome fell when Broadway began.”
December 17, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Quote from a final (posted with permission):
“Without a doubt, Rome fell when Broadway began.”
“Without a doubt, Rome fell when Broadway began.”
Call for papers is out from the American Society for Legal History! This is my favorite conference to present at, by far: wonderful audiences, who engage closely without tearing anybody down, and they love ancient law! Hit me up with questions and then SUBMIT.
aslh.confex.com/aslh/2025/cf...
aslh.confex.com/aslh/2025/cf...
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
aslh.confex.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Call for papers is out from the American Society for Legal History! This is my favorite conference to present at, by far: wonderful audiences, who engage closely without tearing anybody down, and they love ancient law! Hit me up with questions and then SUBMIT.
aslh.confex.com/aslh/2025/cf...
aslh.confex.com/aslh/2025/cf...
Quiz time: in order to get Moose to pose like this, you have to hold up
A) a treat
B) page proofs for Cambridge’s forthcoming translation of the Theodosian code; or
C) all of the above
#romanlaw #boyaremyarmstired
A) a treat
B) page proofs for Cambridge’s forthcoming translation of the Theodosian code; or
C) all of the above
#romanlaw #boyaremyarmstired
December 5, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Quiz time: in order to get Moose to pose like this, you have to hold up
A) a treat
B) page proofs for Cambridge’s forthcoming translation of the Theodosian code; or
C) all of the above
#romanlaw #boyaremyarmstired
A) a treat
B) page proofs for Cambridge’s forthcoming translation of the Theodosian code; or
C) all of the above
#romanlaw #boyaremyarmstired
Finally heard a Tate MacRae song, and I no longer understand gay men. Why do we stan this woman
November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Finally heard a Tate MacRae song, and I no longer understand gay men. Why do we stan this woman
After si, nisi, num, and ne
Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est
Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est
November 5, 2024 at 9:27 PM
After si, nisi, num, and ne
Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est
Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est
Legal historiography pupdate:
Moose is under contract with Cambridge University Press Studies in Legal History! The God and the Bureaucrat: Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories should be coming out in ‘25.
Hopefully they get his name right.
#romanlaw #undercontract #getit
Moose is under contract with Cambridge University Press Studies in Legal History! The God and the Bureaucrat: Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories should be coming out in ‘25.
Hopefully they get his name right.
#romanlaw #undercontract #getit
October 18, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Legal historiography pupdate:
Moose is under contract with Cambridge University Press Studies in Legal History! The God and the Bureaucrat: Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories should be coming out in ‘25.
Hopefully they get his name right.
#romanlaw #undercontract #getit
Moose is under contract with Cambridge University Press Studies in Legal History! The God and the Bureaucrat: Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories should be coming out in ‘25.
Hopefully they get his name right.
#romanlaw #undercontract #getit
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Count me also as unimpressed with the moral and philosophical incoherence of people who insist on asking “does calling Amy Wax a bigot chill speech” but steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the question “does a professor saying black and Asian people don’t belong here chill speech.”
September 23, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Count me also as unimpressed with the moral and philosophical incoherence of people who insist on asking “does calling Amy Wax a bigot chill speech” but steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the question “does a professor saying black and Asian people don’t belong here chill speech.”
Just remember—when you make fun of Ulpian’s self-aggrandizing notion of jurists as ‘sacerdotes’ at D.1.1, THIS is who you’re making fun of.
#romanlaw #guilttrip
#romanlaw #guilttrip
September 12, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Just remember—when you make fun of Ulpian’s self-aggrandizing notion of jurists as ‘sacerdotes’ at D.1.1, THIS is who you’re making fun of.
#romanlaw #guilttrip
#romanlaw #guilttrip
One of life's great pleasures is reading student responses to "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema."
#ifyouknowyouknow
#ifyouknowyouknow
August 30, 2024 at 6:12 PM
One of life's great pleasures is reading student responses to "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema."
#ifyouknowyouknow
#ifyouknowyouknow
@jbouie.bsky.social is the only NYT op-Ed who makes me feel smarter for reading him (specifically because he pointed me to the Rancho Gordo table of instant pot cooking times)
August 24, 2024 at 8:23 PM
@jbouie.bsky.social is the only NYT op-Ed who makes me feel smarter for reading him (specifically because he pointed me to the Rancho Gordo table of instant pot cooking times)
Cannot emphasize enough, the man making this critique looks like Chappell Roan’s Wario
August 20, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Cannot emphasize enough, the man making this critique looks like Chappell Roan’s Wario
Herz: just remember that no one cares how your talk goes
Your campaign slogan is:
Your last name: Last text you sent
Here’s mine
Holmes: Okay, great! Thanks so much!
(Saw this on the picture app, thought it might be fun here, too.)
Your last name: Last text you sent
Here’s mine
Holmes: Okay, great! Thanks so much!
(Saw this on the picture app, thought it might be fun here, too.)
August 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Herz: just remember that no one cares how your talk goes
🎼 he has slept countless aeons/In the frigid, cold beyond/Scream IO, CTHULHU PHTHAGN/it's the Necronomicon 🎼
August 15, 2024 at 1:28 AM
🎼 he has slept countless aeons/In the frigid, cold beyond/Scream IO, CTHULHU PHTHAGN/it's the Necronomicon 🎼
Harp teachers
August 3, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Harp teachers