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...
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All things Roman and Roman law.
Peeps who ❤️ in legal history, the Fall/Spring lineup of the American Society of Legal Historians online new book workshops is out. Batting lead off in 2 weeks is me in conversation with @gauthamrao.bsky.social about our books. We promise not to descend into talking food and recipes.
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Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History The ASLH Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series aims to foster conversations an...
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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.
CfP Techne, Ars, Professionalism 2027.pdf
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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.
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)
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Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2026 The ASLH Making Connections: New Works in Legal Histo...
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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
The simple reason why today's Loch Ness Monster hunt is doomed to fail - The Scotsman I can think of one …
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: print witch@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 4mo agowhat 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.
❗ Updated link: www.enlighten.scot/lessons-from...
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...
Since today is National Barbecue Day, 🔥 remember to give a nod to the patron saint of Barbequers, Saint Lawrence, who—when being persecuted on a hot gridiron under Valerian in 258 CE—noted: “Assum est, versa et manduca.” “This side is done, turn (me) over & eat.” csla.history.ox.ac.uk
Is Edward Gibbon's 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' Worth Reading Today? - Tales of Times Forgotten talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/05/07/i...
Is Edward Gibbon's 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' Worth Reading Today? - Tales of Times Forgotten
Even if you know nothing else about the historiography of the late Roman Empire, there is one work of scholarship on the subject that you’ve probably heard of: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
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Renowned social scientist Bruce Frier to receive honorary degree at Unified Commencement news.tulane.edu/news/social-....
Renowned social scientist Bruce Frier to receive honorary degree at Unified Commencement
Bruce W. Frier will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree at the 2026 Unified Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 16, in Caesars Superdome.
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Open access article on early Christians and Roman legislation www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Legislation and Christians | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
Legislation and Christians - Volume 115
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