Dear Friends, My piece just out in Slate (today!) on how the long campaign to defang videos of police brutality taught the Trump administration how to "handle" the video of the murder of Renee Good. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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