Simon Stern
@simon8.bsky.social
Law & Literature, legal history, criminal law, IP, 18c/19C British literature || U of Toronto Law & English || OUP Law & Lit series http://tinyurl.com/y7fhvh36 || Oxford Hbk of Law & Humanities http://tinyurl.com/y95rdzl3 || SSRN https://tinyurl.com/SSRNss
it 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 ...
![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@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
it 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 ...
There's a little book we like to call the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Not a bad idea to read it first if you plan to prosecute a federal case.
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
There's a little book we like to call the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Not a bad idea to read it first if you plan to prosecute a federal case.
Melissa Ganz, Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/expl...
Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
The law underwent significant developments in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted older doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial soc...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Melissa Ganz, Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/expl...
So many fantastic contributions to this issue, thanks @juliestonepeters.bsky.social and Lindsay Stern for organizing it!
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...
Volume 172 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press
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November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
So many fantastic contributions to this issue, thanks @juliestonepeters.bsky.social and Lindsay Stern for organizing it!
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My incredible book cover is based on an illustration drawn from this!
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My incredible book cover is based on an illustration drawn from this!
I demand sandwich-proof vests!!
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I demand sandwich-proof vests!!
a proud tradition since 1670! utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/a683f3...
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
a proud tradition since 1670! utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/a683f3...
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A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
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I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
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Excited to reveal the cover of my book, MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, which is available for pre-order now!
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Excited to reveal the cover of my book, MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, which is available for pre-order now!
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Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
The Andrew formerly known as Prince
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The Andrew formerly known as Prince
CFP: Law Culture & Humanities 28th Annual Conference @ DePaul, Chicago, June 17/18 2026 lawculturehumanities.com/event/2026-t... We welcome proposals for papers, roundtables, work-in-progress sessions, you name it!
2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference - Law, Culture, and the Humanities
2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference June 17, 2026 @ 8:00 am - June 18, 2026 @ 7:00 pm DePaul University College of Law 25 E Jackson Blvd. Chicago, Illinois 60604 United States + Google Map Share this...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
CFP: Law Culture & Humanities 28th Annual Conference @ DePaul, Chicago, June 17/18 2026 lawculturehumanities.com/event/2026-t... We welcome proposals for papers, roundtables, work-in-progress sessions, you name it!
20% discount on Melissa Ganz, ed., British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP) : asecs.org/2025/10/13/b...
Book Publication: British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century – ASECS
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October 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
20% discount on Melissa Ganz, ed., British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP) : asecs.org/2025/10/13/b...
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British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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October 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
"Something painful encloses something joyful and now I am enclosing that painful thing as a way to assert my joy." -- Robert Gluck, "Denny Smith"
October 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Something painful encloses something joyful and now I am enclosing that painful thing as a way to assert my joy." -- Robert Gluck, "Denny Smith"
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Preorder here!
The New Old Style - Nebraska Press
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October 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Preorder here!
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Absolutely thrilled with the cover @univnebpress.bsky.social has designed for my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (coming August ‘26)! And special thanks to the wonderful and generous Cole Closser for allowing me to use their art.
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Absolutely thrilled with the cover @univnebpress.bsky.social has designed for my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (coming August ‘26)! And special thanks to the wonderful and generous Cole Closser for allowing me to use their art.
Reading this today, my second by Sully both thanks to @neglectedbooks.com. It’s inexplicable to me that the verve for republishing mid century novelists like Comyns et al hasn’t found its way to Sully yet.
Kathleen Sully uses death as punctuation in A Man Talking to Seagulls (1959). The sixth of her novels that I read, it led me to speculate that two themes dominate her work: life is chaotic and rarely comprehensible; and death is inevitable and never more than a breath away.
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September 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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@benjaminnathans.bsky.social latest book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause has been #shortlisted for The 2025 Cundill History Prize. Listen to his interview on @historyextra.bsky.social with Danny Bird here: buff.ly/FgwuOEL
September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@benjaminnathans.bsky.social latest book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause has been #shortlisted for The 2025 Cundill History Prize. Listen to his interview on @historyextra.bsky.social with Danny Bird here: buff.ly/FgwuOEL
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LCH 2026 Conference Scheduled for June 17-18, 2026 at DePaul College of Law / @simon8.bsky.social
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LCH 2026 Conference Scheduled for June 17-18, 2026 at DePaul College of Law
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will hold its 2026 conference June 17-18, 2026 at the DePaul University Co...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
LCH 2026 Conference Scheduled for June 17-18, 2026 at DePaul College of Law / @simon8.bsky.social
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Now available electronically, if your library subscribes to Cambridge Core: Melissa Ganz, ed., British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
Cambridge Core - Legal History - British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
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September 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Now available electronically, if your library subscribes to Cambridge Core: Melissa Ganz, ed., British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
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My book, _Say Hello to Metamodernism!_ has been reviewed in the journal _English Studies_, which I understand is a rather prestigious European journal. It's overall a positive review, with a few gentle critiques, which I like because it makes it feel more real.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FTKAC...
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Say Hello to Metamodernism!: Understanding Today’s Culture of Ironesty, Felt Experience, and Emphatic Reflexivity
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My book, _Say Hello to Metamodernism!_ has been reviewed in the journal _English Studies_, which I understand is a rather prestigious European journal. It's overall a positive review, with a few gentle critiques, which I like because it makes it feel more real.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FTKAC...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FTKAC...
my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reading and writing race in law and literature
Published in European Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Jolene 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
August 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Jolene 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