Audra Savage, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published Slavery and the Myth of Religious Liberty at 51 BYU Law Review 1363. Here is the abstract.
This is a story about two ships. One is semi-mythical. The other is
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Published at ContractsProf Blog: Guest Post by Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions
Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions: A Guest Post. Published at ContractsProf Blog.
Fernandez-Lopez on Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations
Edgar A. Fernandez-Lopez has published Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations.
This article reinterprets Puccini’s Turandot not as a fairy tale of feminine cruelty overcome by erotic persistence, but as a twilight…
Crowe on Pseudolaw, Folk Law, and Natural Law: How to Tell the Difference
Jonathan Crowe, University of Southern Queensland, School of Law and Justice, has published Pseudolaw, Folk Law and Natural Law: How to Tell the Difference. Here is the abstract.
Pseudolaw presents false or distorted, but superficially plausible, claims about legal…
Schultz on Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge
Thomas Schultz, King’s College London, University of Geneva, has published Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge. Here is the abstract.
Legal scholarship presents itself as an exercise in reason: the scholar elucidates, weighs the sources, follows…
Giddens on Typographic Legality: The Source and Transmission of the Common Law (forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press)
Forthcoming from Thomas Giddens, Dundee Law School: Typographic Legality: The Source and Transmission of the Common Law (Edinburgh University Press). From the publisher’s website: The typographic form of judgment stages the authoritative presence of the common law. It is in the…
Solove on A Century Ago, E. M. Foster's "The Machine Stops" Predicted How AI and Digital Tech Are Hollowing Us Out
From Daniel Solove’s Solove on Tech: A Century Ago, E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” Predicted How AI and Digital Tech Are Hollowing Us Out. Subscription might be required (free).
Indigenous Legal Orders, Legal Pluralism, and the Coloniality of Method Across Comparative Law, International Law, IP, and Trade Governance Webinar Now Online
News from Paolo Davide Farah, University of Tulsa College of Law: The webinar Indigenous Legal Orders, Legal Pluralism, and the Coloniality of Method Across Comparative Law, International Law, IP, and Trade Governance.The
webinar brought together an outstanding group of scholars to…
Princeton University Press Sale–Fifty Percent Off Many Titles
Princeton University Press is having a fifty-percent-off sale through June 9th on most of its books. Many titles of interest, but here are a few. Tristan G. Brown, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China.Indira Ghose,…
Mazzone on The Unitary Executive and the Decisions of 1789 and 1861
Jason Mazzone, Univesity of Illinois College of Law, has published The Unitary Executive and the Decisions of 1789 and 1861 at 59 UC Davis Law Review Online 313 (2026). Here is the abstract.
Debates over the constitutional power of the…