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 · 4w 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 · 4w 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. 🧵

exam q: "What does negligence resul[t] in? (a) Harm; (b) Dissatisfaction; (c) Displeasure; (d) Laziness ... they forgot (e) : All of the Above!!

New issue marks 100 years since first publication of Kafka's brilliant unfinished novel 'The Castle': guest editorial (Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko) and all research articles, essays, arts and book reviews now available on the website: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're in the process of submitting all the preorders of this one to our distributor for fulfillment. So if you preordered it, look for yours to arrive within about two weeks. This is a chilling novel of domestic horror that you won't want to miss. www.valancourtbooks.com/such-nice-pe...

now available for pre-order: Sarah Marsh, Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race: A Literary and Legal History of Slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1688–1818 global.oup.com/academic/pro... : English slaveholders, like the Stuart kings, asserted absolute power over their human subjects

One big advantage academic publishing has over other venues fighting AI slop is that most of the publishing incentives for academic articles only accrue if some real person is ID'd as author. Unlike spam sites, which are wholly fungible, here bad actors can actually be targeted with punishments.

Fighting AI Slop in Academic Publishing

The prominent academic pre-print repository arXiv has reportedly announced stiff new penalties for authors who submit papers with AI-generat...

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anil oza@aniloza.bsky.social · 3mo ago

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine. Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!

The news isn’t getting preserved in the Wayback Machine anymore because major media outlets are blocking it.

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Excited to share that my book, Notes on the Novella, is under contract with Princeton UP. It's made up of thirty "notes" on thirty different novellas. Boccaccio, Cervantes, de Zayas, Eliot, James, Larsen, Fuentes, Pynchon, Delany, Spark, Lispector, Morrison, Ferrante -- and more!

“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Douglas.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc...

Excerpts from Chief Justice John Roberts’ High School English Essays

“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Doug...

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The Government suggests that there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s. .. That excuse did not work for Geraldine Jones, and it does not work for the Government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For anyone with access to Oxford Schp Online, you can now read Peter Jaros's The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature : academic.oup.com/book/62645 and you can find the printed version at: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Stern on Detective Fiction / @simon8.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social lawlit.blogspot.com/2026/05/ster...

Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art; A Roundtable Discussion muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic... with Stanley Fish @juliestonepeters.bsky.social Peter Goodrich

Special Issue: Fictionality and Science in Dialogue; ed. Rhona Trauvitch & James Phelan scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/style/i... incl Daniel Newman, The Whodunit Plot and Quantum Superposition; Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen, Fictionality Fighting Superstition; Yonina Hoffman on Infinite Jest

Volume 59 Issue 3 | Style | Scholarly Publishing Collective

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I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

too much genius: Daniel Lefferts on The Hardy Men www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... hat-tip @frankpasquale.bsky.social

The Hardy Men | Daniel Lefferts

In 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a

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