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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
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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.
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
posting the full ToC for those who'd like to see it
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The Andrew formerly known as Prince
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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
now out in OUP's Law & Literature series: Birte Christ, Imagining the American Death Penalty global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
a little Aldous Huxley mockery to lighten your day (from Leda, 1920)
April 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the 12th book in our OUP series, Birte Christ, Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations global.oup.com/academic/pro... now up for pre-order @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
LCH deadline extended by a week -- now Feb 5! lawculturehumanities.com/event/2025-t...
February 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
you are NOT going to want to miss The Oxford Book of English Prose, 1640-1714 : global.oup.com/academic/pro... which is chock full of delicious essays
January 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
forthcoming from OUP: Birte Christ, Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations global.oup.com/academic/pro... **** @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
CFP: Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference, G'town Univ, June 17-18 / submissions due Jan 31 lawculturehumanities.com/event/2025-t... ll @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social @lawandsociety.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @dwlachance.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Due out in July! British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
January 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Jan 15, noon - 1:30 EST on Zoom : LCH & TSLL panel on Stanley Fish, Law @ Movies global.oup.com/academic/pro... w Peter Goodrich & @juliestonepeters.bsky.social : register here lawculturehumanities.com/event/zoom-s... @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
ToC
December 9, 2024 at 3:13 PM
W W Watt said it best (in his poem "Fissures of Men"
December 9, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Art History 47:4 ed. Shira Brisman & Caroline Fowler, Political Ecologies of Paper in Early Modern Art, 1500–1800 academic.oup.com/arthistory/a... "This special issue examines paper as it became the definitive material for both artistic practice and jurisprudence"!
November 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Impossible to list all the fantastic contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyc of Law & Literature www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg... suffice it to say it's an amazing bunch as the ToC shows / @lpcprof.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lawhistnetwork.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 8:52 PM
this remarkable book is available open access! : The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
November 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
out in 4 weeks - Stanley Fish, Law at the Movies, preorder at global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 31, 2024 at 3:51 PM
reposting CFP: The Place of Race in Law & Literature - *Deadline Tomorrow* (Nov 30) : think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... /
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proposals can be for 3000 words or 7500 words think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
November 29, 2023 at 4:11 PM
The 10th book in OUP's Law & Literature series has a cover
@elisewang.bsky.social, The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature global.oup.com/academic/pro... / @mpilhlt.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social
November 24, 2023 at 4:58 PM
fantastic article by @jmpowell.bsky.social - Doctoring the Script: Crime Writing, Order and Medical Authority in the Oeuvre of Dr Augustin Cabanès, 1894–1928 academic.oup.com/shm/article/... on forensic history, true crime writing,, hist. of medicine
November 21, 2023 at 4:55 PM
this looks really terrific: Asheesh Kapur Siddique, The Ideological Origins of “Written” Constitutionalism muse.jhu.edu/article/912121 / @asheeshksi.bsky.social @mpilhlt.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social @gretaolson.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social @katisasch.bsky.social
November 18, 2023 at 8:58 PM
We now have a cover for Stanley Fish, Law at the Movies: Turning Doctrine into Art, due out Feb 29 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
October 13, 2023 at 7:34 PM