Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ask them for the 1860 ed of Ben Hur! it'll bust their minds. 010
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Katya 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.socialdegruyterbrill.com 011
Reposted by Simon SternPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On #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... 022
Reposted by Simon SternEsther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My new article on true crime, murder, and the politics of adaptation in 16thc England was just published in The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. I started this article in 2022. It's been a long road to publication. It was also fun to write! Check it: read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...read.dukeupress.eduArden's True Crime Histories: Murder and Remembrance in Reformation EnglandThe murder of Thomas Arden (d. 1551), once a mayor of Faversham, was first described in a memorandum in the Wardmote Book, one of Faversham's custumals. Arden's murder was popularized in Holinshed's C... 142
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 14/09/2026if 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.socialacademic.oup.comNovel Constitutions and the Making of Race: A Literary and Legal History of Slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1688–1818Abstract. Novel Constitutions argues that Anglo-American racial slavery emerged from a seventeenth-century English constitutional crisis exported into the 011
Reposted by Simon SternNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 06/09/2026W. 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/?... 0152
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 · 02/09/2026get 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.socialroutledge.comWorld Literature and LawThe study of law and literature has become global, and now encompasses legal traditions and literary histories from across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Paradigms such as i... 001
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 29/08/2026what is it with the vapid permasmile, the message of which seems to be, "I know I'm an idiot"? 010
Reposted by Simon SternHannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hey, 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!). 2120411
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Jesse Cordes Selbin, Critical Masses: The Invention of Close Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...press.princeton.eduCritical MassesHow close reading developed as an essential tool of critical thinking and democratic citizenship 000
Reposted by Simon SternAdrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Amazing resource to de-AI your tech 0135
Reposted by Simon SternGreg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 20/08/2026For 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...philosophyportal.onlineFull course deepening investigation of the cultural condition of metamodernism — Philosophy PortalLearn contemporary cultural theory of metamodernism with authors of the first canonical academic text on the music of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. 102
Reposted by Simon SternGreg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The 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. 002
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 20/08/2026well, we have driven so many businesses into bankruptcy as a result that there are fewer jobs! less demand!! 000
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 20/08/2026But he said Russ Vought has the outlines of a sketch of a plan so the mere mention of that will make everyone settle down right away 111
Reposted by Simon SternMitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If 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.socialaslh.netVirtual Working Groups | American Society for Legal HistoryASLH Themed Virtual Legal History Workshop Themed Virtual Legal History Workshops provide a space for scholars with common interests to discuss or present innovative work in their fields, and cultivat... 068
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I am not sure why that would be (except for laziness and indifference on the publishers' part) but maybe this is something to take up with the head of the library? If the licenses are impeding pedagogy, that is a problem that the libraries should be able to remedy 100
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026the usual solution, which I assume for some reason is deemed impractical here, is to *exclude* it from the printed course pack but include a link to an electronic version of the book or article 220
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 31/07/2026on 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...americanantiquarian.orgThe Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature with Peter Jaros | American Antiquarian Society 021
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 30/07/2026what would be even more remarkable is ... if they all shared exactly the same birthdate! (day and year) 000
Reposted by Simon SternAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Earlier 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-...lawfaremedia.orgThe Subpoena Detective: A Dispatch from the Times HearingOn jets, journalism, and a judge 551041297
Reposted by Simon SternSHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026⭐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...docs.google.comSHARP Annual Bibliography books we missedThis 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... 065
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Law as Literature, Literature as Law c. 1200–1700 www.routledge.com/Law-as-Liter...routledge.comLaw as Literature, Literature as Law c. 1200–1700In 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... 030
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Mr Dooley: Practically iverything nicessary to existence comes in free under the tariff! 000
Reposted by Simon SternValancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Our 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-...valancourtbooks.comOnly Lovers Left Alive (1964)BOOK DETAILS Trade paper ISBN-13: 978-1941147627 List Price: $16.99 U.S. Pages: 184 Published: 2015 0159
Reposted by Simon SternNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 19/07/2026Back 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/?... 14114
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Tal 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...papers.ssrn.comContract and BoilerplateThis is a preprint draft of a contribution to the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern (London: Elgar, 2025), 104-0 032
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 11/07/2026now 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.socialdegruyterbrill.com 042
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Will Self Eugene Mirabelli Edmund White Adam Haslett Steven Millhauser 001
Reposted by Simon SternAnne Ralph @anneralph.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Very 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. 0126
Reposted by Simon SternChristine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Available 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...lawlit.blogspot.comAvailable 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... 094
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 08/07/2026if 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.socialbooks.google.caLaw, Narrative, NarratologyExplores 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 ... 196
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026yeah, the Stoker estate, they really love the dead hand of the law 000