Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Academic urban legends - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014

Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently,...

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Katya Al Khateeb, Between Speculation and Regulation: Science Fiction as a Tool for Legal Inquiry / www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... / @lpcprof.bsky.social @bennettcapers.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social

On #NationalSelfAwarenessDay, pick up a copy of On Being Me, a moral philosopher’s meditations on some of life’s most important questions and insights into what it means to be human. Use code PUP30 for 30% off: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Page proofs!

Matt Steilen@mattsteilen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Routledge has just listed my book as forthcoming: www.routledge.com/Parliament-a...

My new article on true crime, murder, and the politics of adaptation in 16thc England was just published in The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. I started this article in 2022. It's been a long road to publication. It was also fun to write! Check it: read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...

Arden's True Crime Histories: Murder and Remembrance in Reformation England

The murder of Thomas Arden (d. 1551), once a mayor of Faversham, was first described in a memorandum in the Wardmote Book, one of Faversham's custumals. Arden's murder was popularized in Holinshed's C...

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if you have access to Oxford Scholarship Online you can read Sarah Marsh's book Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race now, a month before publication academic.oup.com/book/63367?s... / @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawandhistrev.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social

Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race: A Literary and Legal History of Slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1688–1818

Abstract. Novel Constitutions argues that Anglo-American racial slavery emerged from a seventeenth-century English constitutional crisis exported into the

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W. L. White's What People Said (1938) belongs on a shelf with Babbitt and Main Street: it's a detailed portrait of civic pride and corruption in a Midwest city not unlike Emporia, Kansas, where White's father William Allen White reigned as local editor and national sage. neglectedbooks.com/?...

get it now, while it's hawt: Marco Wan, ed., World Literature and Law www.routledge.com/World-Litera... / @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social

World Literature and Law

The study of law and literature has become global, and now encompasses legal traditions and literary histories from across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Paradigms such as i...

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Hey, that’s me! I’m so thrilled to be starting this new chapter at Michigan Law, where I’ll be teaching and writing about constitutional law, criminal law, and law and religion (among other things!).

Michigan Law@umichlaw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hannah Walser, Whose Scholarship Includes Interpretive Methods and the History and Theory of the Novel, Joins Michigan Law Faculty Read more: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/hannah-...

Jesse Cordes Selbin, Critical Masses: The Invention of Close Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Critical Masses

How close reading developed as an essential tool of critical thinking and democratic citizenship

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Amazing resource to de-AI your tech

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

For 4 Sundays in September, I will be co-leading an online mini-course / group exploration of Sufjan Stevens and metamodernism, inspired by the multi-author volume My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens. philosophyportal.online/my-impossibl...

Full course deepening investigation of the cultural condition of metamodernism — Philosophy Portal

Learn contemporary cultural theory of metamodernism with authors of the first canonical academic text on the music of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

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The Philosophy Portal is a really interesting online platform where academics, para-academics and other kinds of intellectuals meet and cross-pollinate. These sessions will be led by authors Tom Drayton (@miserchristmas.bsky.social), Sam Wan and myself, hosted by PhiloPortal director Cadell Last.

If you work on the history of law and capitalism or of law and technology, you should check out the Call to join an ASLH Virtual Working Group in AY2026-27. Applications due 31 Aug. 2026: aslh.net/virtual-work... #legalhistory @nfyahaya.bsky.social @zacharyherz.bsky.social @siobhanbarco.bsky.social

on the history of corporate personhood: The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature with Peter Jaros, Am. Antiquarian Socy virtual book talks, Nov 19, 2-3 pm, register her: www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve... and here is the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Earlier this month, a New York Times journalist was watching “The Sheep Detectives” when FBI agents showed up at his door with a subpoena. Last week, a judge had some questions. It didn’t go well for the Justice Department. My dispatch from the NYT hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Subpoena Detective: A Dispatch from the Times Hearing

On jets, journalism, and a judge

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⭐New! You can now use the following form to submit the citation information for any work you found to be missing from any of our past Annual Bibliographies. You can find this link on our submissions page for future use, too! #BookHistory #Bibliography docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

SHARP Annual Bibliography books we missed

This form is for collecting citation information for edited collections, monographs, and exhibitions catalogs that were not included in our annual bibliographies. They should be: Any language Any top...

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Law as Literature, Literature as Law c. 1200–1700 www.routledge.com/Law-as-Liter...

Law as Literature, Literature as Law c. 1200–1700

In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s severe justice Angelo urges the problems that might arise from a static conception of the law: ‘We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the...

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Our Instagram post got a lot of interest, so we thought we'd feature this here too. In Dave Wallis' '60s counterculture classic ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, all the adults commit suicide in a wave of existential ennui, leaving teenagers in charge of the world: www.valancourtbooks.com/only-lovers-...

Only Lovers Left Alive (1964)

BOOK DETAILS Trade paper ISBN-13:  978-1941147627 List Price: $16.99 U.S. Pages: 184 Published: 2015

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who wore it better?

Back in the weird, wild 1970s, the prestigious firm of Alfred A. Knopf ran a crazy experiment in publishing outsider fiction in shiny hardbacks with striking designs and without dust jackets. They called them Borzoi Puppies. Here's a look at the eight puppies in the litter: neglectedbooks.com/?...

Tal Kastner, Contract and Boilerplate, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... in Elgar Encyc of Law & Literature @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social see also www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

now available online (paywall via De Gruyter Brill): @nbenas.bsky.social, Secular-Christian Social Justice: Climate, Race, and Gender in the Twenty-First Century www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @lpcprof.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social

Will Self Eugene Mirabelli Edmund White Adam Haslett Steven Millhauser

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

five living writers that you've read five books by each Rita Dove Tasha Suri Courtney Milan Grant Morrison Tom Perrotta

Very excited to have an essay in this new interdisciplinary volume! My contribution focuses on the less-studied—but vitally important—legal narratives that emerge in pretrial procedure.

Christine Corcos@lpcprof.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Available Soon From NYU Press: Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, editors) / H/T @simon8.bsky.social lawlit.blogspot.com/2026/07/avai...

Available Soon From NYU Press: Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, editors) / H/T @simon8.bsky.social lawlit.blogspot.com/2026/07/avai...

Available Soon From NYU Press: Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, editors)

Soon available for purchase: Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, eds., New York Universit...

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if Aug 11 is too far away, you can PREVIEW this book on law & narrative on G Books: books.google.ca/books?id=HvO... with essays by Almas Khan, Anne E Ralph, Annie Kim, moi-meme, and more! @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social

Law, Narrative, Narratology

Explores the diverse applications of narrative in law beyond the courtroom, from client-lawyer interactions to legal decisionsOnce regarded by law professors as serving an ornamental purpose in legal ...

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Tal Kastner "Law and Literature" in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory & Philosophy papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Long eluding sharp definition, the project of law and literature has, in recent years, evolved, expanded and flourished @lpcprof.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵