A wide variety of mechanisms can potentially be used to order discourses. Distinctions are one of them. Indeed, distinctions are not only common modes of thinking. They are
also powerful modes of ordering. Distinctions’ ordering does not solely boil down to a repression that demotes impermissible thoughts to the realm of the impossible, [...]
The first few collections of Philip II coins have been linked to new Le Rider URIs and have been made accessible in PELLA through Nomisma.org's SPARQL endpoint. The American
Numismatic Society linked 656 coins to these new URIs. Over the weekend, Karsten Dahmen at the Berlin Münzkabinett cataloged the first 17 coins of their collection. [...]
Filled under Featured, Visiting Scholars A Minoan-Mycenaean scribal legacy for converting rough copies into fair copiesDid the kings of Sparta commission texts
to be written down by scribes?You can find the whole series below: [...]
See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies ee AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals
in Ancient Studies [...]
The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added two lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law Podcast Channel. Due to current circumstances,
the AVL team can post these only to the podcast channel and not the website. The lectures were given by Diane A. [...]
Guha Krishnamurthi (Harvard Law School) has posted A Hartian Account of Genuine Theoretical Disagreement on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Law’s Empire, Ronald Dworkin
raised what he called a new objection to Hart’s positivist theory of law. Dworkin contended that Hartian legal positivism cannot account for the genuine possibility [...]
On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Quinta Jurecic speaks with Alina Polyakova and Kate Klonick, who both have expertise that can clarify
our confusing current moment. Alina has been running a great series of virtual events at the Center for European Policy Analysis on disinformation and geopolitics [...]
As highlighted via posts here and here, there is a growing number of federal court decisions granting sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A) because of the "extraordinary
and compelling" public health crisis created by COVID-19. But, as the as the number of requests for sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A) are growing, so to [...]
A column by Arthur Brooks in The Atlantic examines what makes for a happy life. One segment that stands out: EQUATION 2: HABITS = FAITH + FAMILY + FRIENDS + WORK This is my
summary of thousands of academic studies, and to be fair, many scholars would dispute it as too crude. [...]
