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Now Published! Mod. Crim. L. Rev. 1:2 (2025): Special Issue on Criminal Law, Literature, and History (Simon Stern, guest editor) Read (and watch) it here: crimlrev.net/mclr-articles/ Modern Criminal Law Review/MCLR+: crimlrev.net
Criminal Law, Literature, and Hstory

ALT Criminal Law, Literature, and Hstory

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Elgar Law@Elgar_Law31 Jan 2025
Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by @Princeton's Robert Spoo & @ArsScripta of @UofTLaw Over 130 entries, authors incl @LpcProf @S_DeGooyer @drmonicahuerta 🆓 Entry: Abolition by @KempoJesse ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978180392591… Out now ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/978180…
The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature surveys the intersection between two important fields of study. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume showcases the many ways in which literary and legal methods and insights both converge and remain distinct.

ALT The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature surveys the intersection between two important fields of study. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume showcases the many ways in which literary and legal methods and insights both converge and remain distinct.

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Great book. Great panel. Topic isn't bad either.
Modern Criminal Law Review@ModCrimLRev8 Jan 2025
"From Treason to Trump" ... coming next Friday, Jan 17. Somehow even more topical than it was when we scheduled this last October. Join us live on YouTube. Then read the MCLR+ forum based on the event. crimlrev.net/2024/10/19/from… @Schwartzesque
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What sorts of stories should we be telling about climate change? New article by @antoine_despi examines key cases through the critical lens of stories, narratives, and 'masterplots' @EUI_EU...
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A new research article on the role of storytelling in Law and legal critique, with a focus on Frank Herbert's #Dune - by Stephen M. Young @otago @LawLitJournal @ArsScripta @lawlithum @LawHumanitiesCA @Law_Cult_Huma @drelena_cooper
Stephen Young@SteveIsInOtago30 Oct 2024
Do you like Dune? TWAIL? Critique? Narrative analysis of law and violence? If so, read my new article, 'Naked Ambitions and Masked Violence: The Critical Importance of Story for Law'. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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My oped in today's @the_hindu "The 'new' Justitia and Reimagining Justice." Please read when convenient & share ur comments/feedback, if any. @RHUL_Law @ArtLawNetwork @LawHumanitiesCA @law_humanities @HedgehogsFoxes @legalhistory @Law_Cult_Huma @ArsScripta @OxfordCSLS @SLR_NLSIU
The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment18 Nov 2024
#Comment |The addition of the open-eyed Justitia in the SC of India has led to public debate. It is important to ask whether the interpretation now attributed to an open-eyed justice relates to equality, impartiality and transparency, Shailesh Kumar writes trib.al/tVSZ989

The ‘new’ Justitia and reimagining justice

There needs to be a careful inclusive approach to how we want law and justice to be represented in a visual art form

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Curious about how logic matters to law and literature? Join us on 20 November, from 4-7pm, for a symposium with Katrin Ettenhuber and her prize winning book, The Logical Renaissance. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/logic-lit… @QMUL_HSS @QMHistory @QMULsed @JenniferRichar7 @EnglishAssoc @ArsScripta @LawLitJournal
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Humouring the Norm Event Dec. 8 10am-6pm (Eastern) Hybrid on Zoom (see flyer) and in person at Cardozo School of Law
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Announcing the *Law and Humanities Roundtable 2025: Jane Austen's Legal World*, convened by @ProfProbert @ExeterLawSchool. Paper presentations invited on any aspect of law in Austen's novels @LawLitJournal @lawlithum @LawHumanitiesCA @ArsScripta @drelena_cooper @JaneAustenLIVES
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The amazing @kmtani’s @HarvLRev Foreword is now live!! It reads the Supreme Court term as an archive to uncover what our law is leaving out. And it *also* does a serious review of last year’s cases. An absolute tour de force! harvardlawreview.org/print/v…

Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court Harvard Law Review

Introduction “Dead, dead, dead.” This quote might have referred to any number of apparent casualties of the 2023 Supreme Court Term — from the Court’s decades-old...

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ASLH John Phillip Reid Book Award to Penningroth dlvr.it/TG1fHr
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Check out this international & interdisciplinary workshop, just scheduled for June 2025. Featuring contributors to a Special Issue of Modern Criminal Law Review. More information on the new Mod Crim L Rev shorturl.at/7HIR2. Inaugural issue coming this fall. Stay tuned.
Modern Criminal Law Review@ModCrimLRev5 Nov 2024
💥 Coming June 4, 2025! INDUCING INTIMACY: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud Join us live on YouTube for a panel discussion of Chloë Kennedy’s new book ►Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (2024)◀︎ Info crimlrev.net/2024/11/04/indu… @CUPAcademic @MPICSL
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@SoCalTaxProf5 Nov 2024
Law, Literature, and The Legal Imagination, 35 Yale J.L. & Human. 211 (2024) bit.ly/40xbeSw by @ArsScripta (@UofTLaw)
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Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference, 2025: Call For Papers @Law_Cult_Huma / lawlit.blogspot.com/2024/11/…
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Joe Fischel@fischermyn4 Nov 2024
since everything is chill rn 😫here’s my book cover! Out summer 2025 w Temple UP’s Sexuality Studies series & Beyond the Law series 🥳
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Farah Peterson, The Fourteenth Amendment and the Venus Noire: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Lawfare? What Is It Good For? Global perspectives on the "politicization" and "weaponization" of criminal law in Latin America, the U.S., Europe, South Asia--in other words, all over the world! LAWFARE IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT Now published at MCLR+ crimlrev.net
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See below for a CfP from our Law&Lit friends at @MaastrichtU!!
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From "Felonye" in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to "DONALD TRUMP, FELON" on the front page of @nytimes ... The strange persistence of felony--"as bad a word as you can give to man or thing"--in today's criminal law Read more here crimlrev.net/mclr-resources-… & join the YouTube stream!

MCLR+ Resources: Felony - Modern Criminal Law Review

Primary & Secondary Materials Past (Anglo-American focus) J.G. Bellamy, Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England: Felony Before the Courts From Edward I to the Sixteenth Century (1998) Sara Butler,...

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Modern Criminal Law Review@ModCrimLRev24 Oct 2024
Mark your calendars: Jan 17, 2025! FROM TREASON TO TRUMP: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience YouTube Book Panel on Elise Wang, The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature (OUP 2024) crimlrev.net/2024/10/19/from… @_elisewang Alice Ristroph @Schwartzesque
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‘At some level, these ideas just “pop into our minds”. But despite what some free-will skeptics argue, this doesn’t mean that you are not involved in generating them. They arise intuitively from largely subconscious processes.’ @WiringTheBrain
Kevin Mitchell@WiringTheBrain23 Oct 2024
The One Thing Our Brains Rely on to Generate New Ideas time.com/6549514/brain-rando…

The One Thing Our Brains Rely on to Generate New Ideas

Kevin Mitchell explores how our brains rely on a little bit of randomness to help us think outside of the box.

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