Simon Stern

see: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@frankpasquale.bsky.social

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....

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...

o no! there is just one deal!

Page proofs!

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

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

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!).

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

Amazing resource to de-AI your tech

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...

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-...

⭐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...

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

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-...

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

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

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.

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/

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...

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...

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

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

out in Law Culture & Hum.: Jonathan Atkins, Ratification's Reason: journals.sagepub.com/share/CJYAPE... a poetic model of ratification with analogs in existing poems to identify its effects, then turning to the legal use of ratification and the epistemic qualities of legitimacy that follow from it

Just here to announce that the links linking me to Henry Fielding have never linked. Please eradicate any image you have of the World's Classics edition of Tom Jones.