SEMINAR: Family Feud or Family Reunion? Comparative Law and Comparative Legal History as Siblings [Online: Comparative Legal History Dialogues Series, 15 OCT 2026]. esclh.blogspot.com/2026/10/semi...

✨ Call for papers! 👉 Language and Labour in the Ancient World 📅 📍 15–16 April 2027 ⏰ Submit by Saturday 31st October 2026 🔗 Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

The local big house is hosting a Roman army reenactment society. It’s on the Antonine wall. #Rome

On behalf of our friends at the Peking School of Transnational Law. #RomanLaw

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Publication day: new book on the Roman censorship! Check out my chapter, a global history of water power, censors, and Roman state-formation www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

CFP : Early-Career Confrence. #RomanLaw #GreekLaw #AncientLaw

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Order amidst chaos

Military coups, underage emperors, successive crises of imperial legitimacy – the early decades of the third century CE offer the bleak picture of an

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Faculti: Roman Law, Victorian Humanism, and the Making of Henry Maine's Ancient Law – Paul Du Plessis

How did a Victorian classicist's reading of Roman law shape a foundational text of legal history and colonial governance?

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CFP: a postgraduate conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh, focusing on labour and employment in the Graeco-Roman world (6th century BC to 6th century AD). More details are available at: drive.google.com/file/d/1dWs3... The conference will take place during the week of 11 January 2027.

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Binface should be pronounced like Boniface.

Happy John Calvin day. But don't celebrate. Suffer.

Honorary doctorate of laws awarded to the French legal historian, Professor Jean-Louis Halperin this afternoon. Seated to the left, Professors Jo Shaw and Sarah Prescott. Professor John W Cairns standing. #LegalHistory

A bit like the Midas touch, but everything you touch turns to stercus.

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For anyone who published a book, article, or digital project on legal history between Jan.2025 and Dec.2026: you should apply to be featured in the ASLH's virtual event series for next yr--"Making Connections: New Works in Legal History, 2026-27." Due June 30, 2026: aslh.net/virtual-book... (1/2)

A fun afternoon ahead talking about Scottish Heraldry Law.

"Land and Power in the Later Roman World " #Conference 📆 29 June to 1 July 2026 📍 Tübingen 🔗 View details: bit.ly/4tsST40 Please send enquiries to Dr Giordana Franceschini, giordana.franceschini@histsem.uni-tuebingen.de #AllWelcome

531 years ago, on the 1st of June 1495, Scottish monk John Cor is ordered by King James IV of Scotland to use 'eight bolls of malt to make aquavitae (whisky)' according to an entry in the Exchequer Rolls. It's the first mention of whisky in a Scottish source. #otd #history 🗃️

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'Mediocre is not good enough': expert says teachers needs a knowledge-rich curriculum

Emeritus professor Lindsay Paterson warns Scotland has slipped from above average to “quite mediocre” in international education and argues that…

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The simple reason why today's Loch Ness Monster hunt is doomed to fail - The Scotsman I can think of one …

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Stefan Collini is always a must read on the crises of UK Higher Education and Universities. Always. Thank you @lrb.co.uk ! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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A mandalorian is an equitable remedy which can only be discharged by the mandaloree applying for a writ of grogu against the mandalor.

frank n furter@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

what is a mandalorian and what is a grogu? wrong answers only!

Our friends at the Peking School of Law has asked me to share this.

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Lessons from Scottish Schools - Enlighten

We have just come through an election campaign in which the problems facing Scottish schools were barely mentioned. There was rhetoric about standards and the curriculum, about behaviour and attendanc...

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The Law that “Regularized” Thousands of Freed Slaves by Granting Them the Vote in the Roman Republic was not for what we thought www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/05/t...

The Law that “Regularized” Thousands of Freed Slaves by Granting Them the Vote in the Roman Republic was not for what we thought

For decades, the official history of ancient Rome has repeated the same idea: in the last decades of the Republic, freed slaves – the libertini – were so numerous and so impoverished that any populist...

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Here you can check the first chapter of my new book 'Contrarian Jurists — The Story of Comparative Law and How Collisions Shaped It' (Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury 2026). bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/6a0c4...