Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 02/09/2026also a send up of another (at the time) famous authorial photo 030
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 24/06/2026exam q: "What does negligence resul[t] in? (a) Harm; (b) Dissatisfaction; (c) Displeasure; (d) Laziness ... they forgot (e) : All of the Above!! 120
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 20/05/2026now 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 0104
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The 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... 130
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 12/12/2025If you have access to Oxford Scholarship Online, you can now read Geoffrey Baker's new book, Belief in Evidence in the 19C Novel, an analysis of key aspects of evidence law in conjunction with nineteenth-century novels: age, experience, character, and otherness global.oup.com/academic/pro... 030
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 19/11/2025it just ain't that hard to understand Rule 6(f) of the Fed R Crim P. Not one of those you need to read a lot of cases and lawyertalk to get ... 010
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Jolene Zigarovich, Absent Husbands & Scandalous Plots: Presumption of Death & Its Bigamous Consequences journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawandhistrev.bsky.social @womenknowlaw.bsky.social @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @faithbee.bsky.social 030
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 02/06/2025now out in OUP's Law & Literature series: Birte Christ, Imagining the American Death Penalty global.oup.com/academic/pro... 010
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 25/04/2025a little Aldous Huxley mockery to lighten your day (from Leda, 1920) 020
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 06/02/2025the 12th book in our OUP series, Birte Christ, Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations global.oup.com/academic/pro... now up for pre-order @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social 163
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 01/02/2025LCH deadline extended by a week -- now Feb 5! lawculturehumanities.com/event/2025-t... 002
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 26/01/2025you are NOT going to want to miss The Oxford Book of English Prose, 1640-1714 : global.oup.com/academic/pro... which is chock full of delicious essays 064
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 22/01/2025forthcoming from OUP: Birte Christ, Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations global.oup.com/academic/pro... **** @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social 033
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 07/01/2025CFP: Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference, G'town Univ, June 17-18 / submissions due Jan 31 lawculturehumanities.com/event/2025-t... ll @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social @lawandsociety.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @dwlachance.bsky.social 067
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Due out in July! British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/ca/universit... 031
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Jan 15, noon - 1:30 EST on Zoom : LCH & TSLL panel on Stanley Fish, Law @ Movies global.oup.com/academic/pro... w Peter Goodrich & @juliestonepeters.bsky.social : register here lawculturehumanities.com/event/zoom-s... @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social 024
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Art History 47:4 ed. Shira Brisman & Caroline Fowler, Political Ecologies of Paper in Early Modern Art, 1500–1800 academic.oup.com/arthistory/a... "This special issue examines paper as it became the definitive material for both artistic practice and jurisprudence"! 030
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Impossible to list all the fantastic contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyc of Law & Literature www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg... suffice it to say it's an amazing bunch as the ToC shows / @lpcprof.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social 1158
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 14/11/2024this remarkable book is available open access! : The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha... 073
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 31/01/2024out in 4 weeks - Stanley Fish, Law at the Movies, preorder at global.oup.com/academic/pro... 010
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 29/11/2023reposting CFP: The Place of Race in Law & Literature - *Deadline Tomorrow* (Nov 30) : think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... / @elisewang.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social @reginaldohlaw.bsky.social proposals can be for 3000 words or 7500 words think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... 045
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 24/11/2023The 10th book in OUP's Law & Literature series has a cover @elisewang.bsky.social, The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature global.oup.com/academic/pro... / @mpilhlt.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social 0147
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 21/11/2023fantastic article by @jmpowell.bsky.social - Doctoring the Script: Crime Writing, Order and Medical Authority in the Oeuvre of Dr Augustin Cabanès, 1894–1928 academic.oup.com/shm/article/... on forensic history, true crime writing,, hist. of medicine 030
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 18/11/2023this looks really terrific: Asheesh Kapur Siddique, The Ideological Origins of “Written” Constitutionalism muse.jhu.edu/article/912121 / @asheeshksi.bsky.social @mpilhlt.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social @gretaolson.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social @katisasch.bsky.social 1154
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 13/10/2023We now have a cover for Stanley Fish, Law at the Movies: Turning Doctrine into Art, due out Feb 29 global.oup.com/academic/pro... 030
![Rule 6(f) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides: "An indictment may be found only upon the concurrence of 12 or more jurors." And Rule 6(c) emphasizes the requirement that 12 jurors shall "find" each indictment by its provision that the foreman "shall keep a record of the number of jurors concurring in the finding of every indictment * * *." The requirement of the Criminal Rules that every indictment must be "found" by at least 12 grand jurors is a further specification of the Fifth Amendment's command that " [n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7ty4mgxgb4eii6eohda4ug7/bafkreiexl2fj4rrrxvq45pyhwk3cbt2ierab26nrskc5onyhqxipzv5o2m)
