Alma Diamond
@almadiamond.bsky.social
VAP at Michigan Law | Incoming Assistant Prof at UT Law | Previously Law & Phil Fellow at Chicago Law | Contracts & Jurisprudence | https://almadiamond.net/
Me on Oza on fundamental legal change: juris.jotwell.com/can-law-spea...
Can Law Speak Against Itself? - Jurisprudence
Manish Oza, Can We Legally Revise the Highest Legal Rule, 31 Legal Theory 270 (2025).Alma DiamondIn early twentieth-century South Africa, the Gordonia School Board refused admission to two children on...
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Thank you @justtheory.bsky.social for having me! And for all the work that goes into this wonderful podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eing...
On domesticating fuzziness (in contract law) with Alma Diamond (Michigan)
YouTube video by Just Theory
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The 2026 Legal Philosophy Workshop program is now available. We hope you can join us in Chicago @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social! @hadassanoorda.bsky.social @raff-donelson.bsky.social @gowder.io @almadiamond.bsky.social @sgaloob.bsky.social @ksifferd.bsky.social @yaromeir.bsky.social
Legal Philosophy Workshop - 2026 Program
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I'm trying to be back on the internet but it's bleak out here. I'm giving up for today. I leave this offering: a (poorly taken) picture of Pudlo Pudlat's "Saddled Muskox" - look at its adorable footsies! - taken at a recent visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Circulating a call for papers on how consent is used in dance and movement, please share widely! www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/cen...
Choreography of Consent: Experiments in Dance/Law Research
The Choreography of Consent: AHRC Network that brings together dance practitioners, legal scholars, and policymakers to explore new ways of working across dance and law.
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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 · 11mo agoA 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/
Iris Murdoch, preaching to me on the job market (albeit without gender-neutral pronouns)
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....
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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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.
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)
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. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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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You can get yours as well! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawles...
Lawless
Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a l...
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Steve Williams @stevemw0302.bsky.social · last yr.Pre-Saved! 16 days can't come fast enough. Also @leahlitman.bsky.social I thought you'd appreciate the music choice in the screenshot. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
Huge congrats to you both!
Tomer Kenneth@tkenneth.bsky.social · last yr.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... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This looks really interesting, I am looking forward to reading it.
Itamar Mann@itamann.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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. 🧵
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 @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
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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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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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.
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
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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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
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We are now here too! 🥳 Follow us for events on Jurisprudence in Oxford. Here is our termcard, in case you haven't seen it:
In “Bootstrapped: A (Qualified) Defense of Practice-Based Constitutional Argument,” @umichlaw.bsky.social Prof. @almadiamond.bsky.social’s defends such arguments but points out that they must choose between wide and narrow conceptions of legal validity. https://buff.ly/40H1eWx #WomenAlsoKnowLaw
Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social for highly recommending “Hares or Hounds?”. Any and all comments are very welcome.
Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 2y agoDiamond on Originalism and Lawfinding, https://buff.ly/42k380m - Alma Diamond (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Hares or Hounds? Originalism's Dilemma: Legal Formalism, or Judicial Neutrality on SSRN.
