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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you @miottoluc.bsky.social and @philosophy-law.bsky.social for this conversation! I loved talking to Legal Phi about my work.

Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Sep 2

A new Legal-Phi interview is out! We spoke with Alma Diamond
about how practices shape obligations, constitutional meaning, and much more. Check it out 👇https://legalphi.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/alma-diamond-practices-obligations-and-constitutions/

Alma Diamond: Practices, Obligations, and Constitutions

It is a pleasure to have Alma Diamond as our next interviewee. Alma obtained her LLM and JSD from NYU School of Law, where her dissertation was supervised by Jeremy Waldron. She has taught at the U…

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you @miottoluc.bsky.social and @philosophy-law.bsky.social for this conversation! I loved talking to Legal Phi about my work.

Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Alma Diamond: Practices, Obligations, and Constitutions

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Aug 28

Iris Murdoch, preaching to me on the job market (albeit without gender-neutral pronouns)

Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to be on the job market with a paper about a question I have obsessed over since 2015: what is going on with foreseeability in contract? I argue two distinct ideas are at work, offering guidance for courts and practitioners and a lesson for theory papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Jun 27

Same.

Peter Edge @edge-law.bsky.social · Jun 27

This fell across my timeline, and it feels very June 2025 to me.

a dog is swimming in a blue pool and looking at the camera

ALT: a dog is swimming in a blue pool and looking at the camera

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Peter Edge @edge-law.bsky.social · Jun 27

This fell across my timeline, and it feels very June 2025 to me.

a dog is swimming in a blue pool and looking at the camera

ALT: a dog is swimming in a blue pool and looking at the camera

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social !

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Jun 20

Diamond on Hart and Raz on Legal Reasoning, buff.ly/HzbOCsK - Alma Diamond (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Law in Society: Defending Hart (Res Publica) on SSRN.

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Jun 20

Diamond on Hart and Raz on Legal Reasoning, buff.ly/HzbOCsK - Alma Diamond (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Law in Society: Defending Hart (Res Publica) on SSRN.

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Jun 15

On father’s day, I’m grateful for this guy, master of the afternoon nap. (That’s a painting by my aunt, we need an aunt day too)

Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Jun 13

Those geese! I had such a love hate relationship with them. More love than is reasonable, I think.

Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thank you!

Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thank you!

Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Jun 12

Back from a social media break to share a new piece on the Raz-Hart debate. Thank you to so many who helped with this project, especially @glexareen.bsky.social and @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social. I'm working on a follow up, there's much more to say on all this.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · May 2

#PhilosophyJobs #Philosophy

Anna Cornelia Ploug @annacornelia.bsky.social · May 2

Philosophy jobs Copenhagen : : :

Postdoctoral position in History of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

The Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a postdoctoral position in History of Philosop

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Gerhard Kemp @gerhardkempicl.bsky.social · Apr 29

opiniojuris.org/2025/04/29/c... My comment on developments in the first prosecution of apartheid as a crime against humanity and the issue of prescription.

Criminal Court in South Africa Confirms Charges in Historic First Prosecution of the Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid

[Gerhard Kemp is professor of criminal law at UWE Bristol, and extraordinary professor of public law at Stellenbosch University] On Monday, 14 April 2025, the high court in Johannesburg issued an i…

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Apr 26

You can get yours as well! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawles...

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Apr 16

Huge congrats to you both!

Tomer Kenneth @tkenneth.bsky.social · Apr 16

First post alert 🎉

Excited to share my article with the brilliant @yaromeir.bsky.social, forthcoming in Law & Philosophy!
We explore the dynamics of state's authority. Alongside legitimacy, it also depends on power--power that is constantly being challenged...

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5209252

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Apr 10

This looks really interesting, I am looking forward to reading it.

Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Apr 10

New article out now @globcon.bsky.social. Cannibalism on a liferaft somewhere off The Cape of Good Hope, late in the 19th century, may seem to be recondite and far removed from everything that's going down right now. I think that's a mistake.

Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Jessica A. Shoemaker @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social · Apr 9

As markets churn and world orders reset, @jamesftierney.bsky.social and I have a new piece forthcoming in Yale Law Journal that couldn't be more timely. "Trading Acres" traces the risks of farmland financialization and analyzes the role of law in this ongoing rural land grab. 🧵

Abstract - Trading Acres - forthcoming Yale Law Journal - Jessica A Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney - Farms are places where people live their lives, sustain their families, and produce food and fiber for the wider community. And now, farms are assets swept up into global financial channels—converting before our eyes from repositories of the best of our agrarian ideals into paper playthings for the very rich. This asset-class-ification of farmland echoes patterns of financialization occurring across other elements of our daily lives, including housing, and compounds wider crises of concentration and industrialization in agriculture. But as an active land grab unfolds across rural America, farmland’s recent capture by absentee investors is particularly concerning. Farmland’s conversion to asset class threatens rural livelihoods, agriculture and food system resilience, and economic and spatial justice. In this article, we argue that Wall Street’s arrival at rural America’s gate is not merely a market trend but rather the product of deep social choices governing the accumulation of investor wealth: property, corporate, and securities law. We explore the ways in which these deep structures of our legal system—from the primacy of market logics to a range of biases that skew our spatial, temporal, and social relations—constitute the conditions for this profound transformation in the way farmland, as a basic and essential rural resource, is being integrated into the modern capital economy. Together, business and property law create the conditions for land concentration, rural depopulation, environmental degradation, and labor exploitation. Today’s rural land grab is meeting little resistance. But historically, investor-owned farmland was seen as a deep and politically-motivating threat to rural life. We situate past reform attempts to rein in financialized farmland and conclude that many attempts failed because modest doctrinal interventions result in playing shell gam…

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Apr 8

I'm doing an AMA on Crooked Media's "Friends of the Pod" Discord on *Mon. April 14th* at 3 PM PT/6 PM ET!

You can sign up for Friends of the Pod (& get access to the community Discord, & ad-free episodes of some Crooked pods) here: crooked.supercast.com?coupon=Lawless

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · Apr 7

New off the press, will be of particular interest to @philosophy-law.bsky.social, @lawstuff.bsky.social, @anuragdeb.bsky.social and many others

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Legislative Intent and the Hard Problem of Content - Law and Philosophy

The general aim of this paper is to investigate how philosophical problems with the notion of mental content affect the debate about legislative intent. Specifically, the aim is to define and criticiz...

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Apr 4

Stumbled (doomscrolled) into this article from 1984 today: www.nytimes.com/1984/02/05/b...

BUSINESS FORUM; THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS (Published 1984)

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Apr 2

I took a two month or so break from social media, can recommend. But I am back - I’ve missed you all. Here, have a picture of the puppy attending my contracts seminar this term.

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Women Also Know Law @womenknowlaw.bsky.social · Feb 14

Check out @umichlaw.bsky.social faculty fellow @almadiamond.bsky.social 's review of Tom Adam’s new piece on Criteria of Legal Validity https://buff.ly/4hXfH6F #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #WomeninAcademia

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Feb 12

I reviewed Tom Adams's new piece on Criteria of Legal Validity on @jotwell.bsky.social : check it out! (And read Tom's paper, it is great). juris.jotwell.com/clarifying-l...

Clarifying Legal Validity - Jurisprudence

Thomas Adams, Criteria of Validity, __ Mod. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025), available at SSRN (Oct. 14, 2024).Alma DiamondMy father used to announce weekly household chore assignments on Sundays. The f...

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · Feb 12

Join us Mon. Feb. 17th 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"A Politics of Belonging"

@avramalpert with Alexis Papazoglou
on the need for a conception of belonging that enables people to feel comfortable enough to be different.

#Philosophy #PhilSky #PhilEvent

Register here:

A Politics of Belonging

www.thephilosopher1923.org

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