TECHNIQUES OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, ed Lindsay Stern & me! Essays: Emily Apter, Jeannine DeLombard, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Renisa Mawani, Andreas PhilippopoulosM, Alain Pottage, Paul Saint-Amour, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Lindsay, @simon8.bsky.social, Patricia Williams! online.ucpress.edu/representati...

SAT 5/31 7:30pm (Brooklyn): daughter Kaia's (@Chaia) ALBUM RELEASE PARTY! "YIDDISH ELECTRONIC": Circle dance, live klezmer music, and performances from Yiddish artists and community organizations! @Public Records (Brooklyn): doors open 7:30pm, Chaia live 8-9:30pm. Tickets here! ra.co/events/2093400

TOMORROW Thu 4/17: AAUP RALLY for the Right to Learn! (National Day of Action for Higher ed). MANHATTAN: meet Washington Square Park 3pm for the march to Foley Square (Barnard / Columbia assembly point is 5th Avenue / Washington Mews at 2:45); 4pm Rally Foley Square!

Dear Friends, Below, my piece today in The Dispatch (500,000 conservative subscribers): 1st attempt to convert the not-yet converted (rhetoric adjusted accordingly). Striving to reach those who might still be open to persuasion in ways they might be open to hearing! thedispatch.com/article/colu...

Law, Lies, and Hollywood: Stanley Fish’s Cinematic Jurisprudence (my review of Stanley Fish's Law at the Movies, just out in the LA Review of Books!) lareviewofbooks.org/article/law-...

TODAY (2/4)!!!! 6:15pm: panel on STAGING WITCHCRAFT w/brilliant Rivka Galchen, Sarah (Sally) Barringer Gordon, Julie Crawford, Denise Cruz (+ me)! Live @ Columbia U or Zoom. Link to open-access copy of my mini-book + video abstract in 1st comment below. Register here! sofheyman.org/events/celeb...

Tue Feb 4th 6:15pm: panel on STAGING WITCHCRAFT w/brilliant Rivka Galchen, Sarah (Sally) Barringer Gordon, Julie Crawford, Denise Cruz (+ me)! Live @ Columbia U or Zoom. Link to open-access copy of my mini-book + video abstract in 1st comment below. Register here! sofheyman.org/events/celeb...

if your institution subscribes to Elgar Online, you now have access to the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg... ; just go to www.elgaronline.com/saml/wayf?ta... ; @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social

If you teach in a humanities dept & care about our grad students, please read my piece: “THE HUMANITIES JOB MARKET IS BROKEN BUT THERE'S ONE THING WE CAN EASILY FIX"! Please help by sharing & spreading word! (If you hit paywall, DM or email me for a copy!) www.chronicle.com/article/were...

just out: The Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Literature www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg... you can read the Introduction here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (with ToC) @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social

Apologies, friends, for posting so much about my own activities in the past few days! Just a lot going on that I’m eager to share (when it rains, it pours!) One more to come in a moment!

TODAY Wed 1/15 12-1:30pm EST: Zoom panel on STANLEY FISH's latest book, LAW AT THE MOVIES, w/Peter Goodrich, Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social, me, & Professor Fish himself! Registration link here! lawculturehumanities.com/event/zoom-s...

brand new: Subha Mukherji, Literature and the Legal Imaginary link.springer.com/book/10.1007... with essays by @juliestonepeters.bsky.social and many others, don't miss it! @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social

THIS WEDNESDAY Jan 15th 12-1:30pm EST: Zoom panel on STANLEY FISH's latest book, LAW AT THE MOVIES, w/Peter Goodrich, Simon Stern (@simon8.bsky.social) me, & Professor Fish himself! Registration link here! zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My new mini-book, STAGING WITCHCRAFT BEFORE THE LAW: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials, just out from Cambridge UP! Open access: pdf download (+ 3-min video abstract) here! Read and share! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New #OpenAccess history from Cambridge U.P.: Staging Witchcraft Before the Law Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials by Julie Stone Peters www.cambridge.org/core/element... #History