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All things Roman and Roman law.
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will pooley
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all academic applications should have consolation prizes. doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020” or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
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Today ask yourself only one question. Where were you when Spanish Eddie cashed it in?
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Caroline Derry
about 1 month ago
Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods. 20-21 November, online, free. Programme and booking at the link.
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Annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
Join us for the 6th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-diversity-dilemmas-and-discoveries-conference-moments-of-rupture-tickets-1796165983809?aff=oddtdtcreator
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CBS News
about 1 month ago
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
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Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
https://cbsn.ws/47RsDZm
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ana valdivia
about 2 months ago
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
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I’ve been looking out for this book. It looks like a fun topic.
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Jaakko Husa
about 2 months ago
France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system”
sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...
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Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/why-sorbonne-pulled-out-university-ranking
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Edinburgh University Press
about 2 months ago
✒️ New on the blog
@sententiaepauli.bsky.social
chats to EUP about his new book: Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism. Read the post:
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Q&A with Paul du Plessis on Henry Maine’s Ancient Law
My monograph aims to revisit the book with the central question: what did Maine believe he was doing when he wrote Ancient Law?
https://edin.ac/42xNhe5
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The Centre for Legal History - Edinburgh Law School
3 months ago
Our first event for the coming academic year. It is an in-person event.
#RomanLaw
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Utilitas - The Word That Changes Everything? | Edinburgh Law School
https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/utilitas-word-changes-everything?utm_campaign=3479963_Edinburgh%20Centre%20for%20Legal%20History%20-%20September%202025&utm_medium=email&utm_source=College%20of%20Arts%2C%20Humanities%20%26%20Social%20Sciences%2C%20The%20University%20of%20Edinburgh&dm_i=2MQP,22L5N,3BQD8G,7KZUP,1
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Join us for this event on Friday. Hybrid.
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Utilitas - The Word That Changes Everything? | Edinburgh Law School
https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/utilitas-word-changes-everything
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It’s publication day, folks. Available from the website of the Press or from Amazon. May you find it useful in your own work.
#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
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@armanddangour.bsky.social
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Agenda des médiévistes
2 months ago
Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna
rmblf.be/2025/09/26/p...
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Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna
The so-called Byzantine Empire, which existed for more than a thousand years with Constantinople as its capital, demonstrates the birth of a new world with the wedding of Western and Eastern tradit…
https://rmblf.be/2025/09/26/publication-a-companion-to-byzantine-law-from-the-foundation-of-constantinople-330-until-the-end-of-the-macedonian-dynasty-1056-ed-eleftheria-papagianni-daphne-penna/
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Jo Wolff
2 months ago
Here’s how I sometimes start a new project. First I buy a fancy new notebook. Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page. Third I never look at it again.
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- early November. Good line-up.
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Preach it from the hilltops.
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Paolo Sandro
3 months ago
link.springer.com/collections/...
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The Pragmatics of Legal Argumentation
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: The Pragmatics of Legal Argumentation. Special issue article publications ...
https://link.springer.com/collections/cdccbggbfi?fbclid=IwY2xjawM3bvpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtVVDPVTjrBVEGiVbFEku9955c4vlsKPthHr2nC5cYlFYxeVsRGLgJi28KeD_aem_9f7YCMy0hHUv_k7zlzRdUg
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Paul Bassett Davies
about 1 year ago
Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
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Katrina Navickas
3 months ago
The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows
3 months ago
The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...
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The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09.02/
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Jo Wolff
3 months ago
I have nothing to declare except my imposter syndrome.
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Susie Dent
3 months ago
An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
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Present & Correct
3 months ago
The Full Moon this month is known as Stationery Moon. Traditionally the time of year for harvesting notebooks, pens and pencils.
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Chris
3 months ago
Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present 17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location) Deadline 31 October 2025
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
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Caroline Derry
3 months ago
Excited to invite you to the launch of Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions. Hear from contributors on how and why to teach it, and its subversive potential! 6pm, Monday 8 Sept, online. Booking:
forms.office.com/e/VFgwKs9iHM
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Jo Wolff
3 months ago
Freud, preface to updated edition of The Interpretation of Dreams.
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Nick Posegay
3 months ago
Clifford Ando (Classics Prof at UChicago) is a hero in this story. He's calling out the University at every turn, dissecting their flawed finances, and making sure everyone knows they're a bunch of profit-seeking hypocrites who gambled away tuition money on crypto.
chicagomaroon.com/40486/news/u...
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UChicago Professor Sounds Alarm Over Troubling University Finances
Classics professor Clifford Ando highlights University financial concerns and cautions against degrading Humanities and Social Sciences Divisions in cost-cutting efforts.
https://chicagomaroon.com/40486/news/uchicago-professor-sounds-alarm-over-troubling-university-finances/
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Finding that forgotten early draft in a folder.
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Dr Lorren Eldridge
4 months ago
Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history. £100
@hartpublishing.bsky.social
vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham.
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Jo Wolff
4 months ago
Preparing slides for a talk on Marxism in the 21st century I asked an AI programme to give Marx a contemporary hairstyle. I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.
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The Centre for Legal History - Edinburgh Law School
4 months ago
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Selden’s Sister Essay Competition – The Edinburgh Legal History Blog
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghlegalhistoryblog/2025/08/03/seldens-sister-essay-competition/
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows
4 months ago
Second Rare Inscription Honoring Justinian and Theodora Unearthed in Kosovo’s Ancient City of Ulpiana - Arkeonews
arkeonews.net/second-rare-...
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Second Rare Inscription Honoring Justinian and Theodora Unearthed in Kosovo’s Ancient City of Ulpiana - Arkeonews
A second rare inscription dedicated to Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora has been unearthed at the ancient city of Ulpiana, offering new
https://arkeonews.net/second-rare-inscription-honoring-justinian-and-theodora-unearthed-in-kosovos-ancient-city-of-ulpiana/
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#RomanLaw
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This would be funny if it weren’t so awful.
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#RomanLaw
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Terry and Dune
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Caroline Derry
5 months ago
Very excited that Legal History in the Curriculum is now published! It brings together amazing contributors from around the world, looking at how and why to teach legal history. Special thanks to
@sandbergrlaw.bsky.social
- contributor, series editor, and more!
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Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions
As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law ...
https://www.routledge.com/Legal-History-in-the-Curriculum-Comparative-Perspectives-Critical-Approaches-and-Future-Directions/Derry-Howells/p/book/9781032754970?utm_id=
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*The deafening sound of the stable door being shut after the horses have bolted*
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Blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
6 months ago
JOB: PhD candidate legal history (first half of the 20th century), University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig, Chair for Civil Law, German and European Legal History and Canon Law (DEADLINE: 18 July 2025)
esclh.blogspot.com/2025/06/job-...
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JOB: PhD candidate legal history (first half of the 20th century), University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig, Chair for Civil Law, German and European Legal History and Canon Law (DEADLINE: 18...
By High Contrast - Own work, CC BY 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11655231 Die Universität Regensburg ist mit ü...
http://esclh.blogspot.com/2025/06/job-phd-candidate-legal-history-first.html
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Out in September. Available to pre-order now from all good online bookstores.
#HenryMaine
#AncientLaw
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-henry-m...
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Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism
Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-henry-maine-s-ancient-law-as-an-expression-of-victorian-humanism.html
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Dr Corinne Painter
6 months ago
Devastating news: "An end to teaching and research in ancient history, religion, theology, Portuguese, German, and Italian. The schools of ancient history and theology will close."
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Charity regulator to investigate crisis-hit university
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Charity regulator to investigate crisis-hit Dundee University
Scotland's charity regulator has launched an investigation into the running of the cash-strapped University of Dundee.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qxl44y08vo
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Neil Renic
6 months ago
I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind
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Cambridge University Press - Law
6 months ago
Now available for pre-order from Cambridge University Press: Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law — a definitive study of one of the most influential figures in contemporary legal philosophy. Find out more:
cup.org/neilmaccormick
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and I pondering the “imperishable foundations” of Scots law.
6 months ago
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Had a great time in Glasgow yesterday listening to the next generation of Scottish Roman law scholars talk about their discipline. Illuminating paper by. Tommaso Beggio from Trento (an honorary Scot).
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Alexandra Sills
6 months ago
Stolen from FB
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- how would one express the following as a Latin motto? “Do more with less, but better!” 😏
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Every lawsuit in civil law ever starts with the phrase “but it was going so well … “.
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