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Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid

A few years ago after finishing a study about the collecting of wild animal skins in Victorian Britain, I felt disturbingly empty—perhaps even a bit lost. I wondered what now could offer me a sense...

Ann C. Colley | 21 Feb 2023

The act of becoming – Law, liminality and legacy in an academic career

What do we hope to become in a career or over multiple careers in a lifetime? What do we want to be known for? What mark do we aspire to make, however large or small? Who, if anyone, do we seek to inspire? In...

Graeme Laurie | 21 Feb 2023

A LONG DELAYED NEW EDITION

I was 31 years old — or as it now seems, young —when my first book appeared in May 1972. Half a century later a second edition of The Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640,...

Wilfrid R. Prest | 20 Feb 2023

When was the last time you provided formative feedback to your learners?

Although feedback plays an increasingly important role in everyday life as well as in teaching and learning, its implementation in the classroom is rather limited. Many teachers still believe that grades...

Inez De Florio | 20 Feb 2023

The World Crisis and International Law – The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future

      Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captivates our attention, while we fear that worse is coming. China threatens Taiwan, Iran almost certainly will become a nuclear power before...

Paul B. Stephan | 16 Feb 2023

The Challenges and Joys of First-Time Parenthood

Why do people have children? How do their hopes about first-time parenthood match up with or differ from the reality of parenthood? And what does it mean to be part of a group of people for whom having...

Clare Bartholomaeus, Damien W. Riggs | 16 Feb 2023

Technologies in/of Irish writing

While the electrification of Ireland’s urban spaces did not begin in earnest until 1929 – and indeed, rurally some two decades later in 1946 – electricity, or rather, the electronic, now operates...

Margaret Kelleher, James O'Sullivan | 14 Feb 2023

How did ancient poets seize the day?

“Carpe diem” is one of the most recognisable Latin phrases: in our day it is a popular slogan on T-shirts; millions know the words through the movie Dead Poets Society, in which the actor Robin Williams...

Robert A. Rohland | 10 Feb 2023

The debate is endless, but it is far from pointless – Lessons in legacy from teaching medical jurisprudence

This blog is the first in a series of five posts responding to the festschrift published in 2021 by my dear colleagues and friends Edward Dove and Niamh Nic Shuibhne and entitled Law and Legacy in Medical...

Graeme Laurie | 9 Feb 2023

A Conversation with Jennifer Stager, author of Seeing Color in Classical Art

Nandini Pandey (author of The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 2018) stepped out with Jennifer Stager (Seeing Color in Classical Art, 2022) for a walk around the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore,...

Nandini B. Pandey, Jennifer M. S. Stager | 9 Feb 2023

The Amendolas: an Italian family

Above you will find an image of the Amendola Fiera station on Milan’s tube line number 1. It was opened in 1964 and is located in Piazza Giovanni Amendola ‘statista’. The square hails Giovanni...

R.J.B. Bosworth | 9 Feb 2023

Legitimacy Politics. Elite Communication and Public Opinion in Global Governance

Once staunch advocates of international cooperation, political elites are increasingly divided over the merits of global governance. Populist leaders attack international organizations for undermining...

Jonas Tallberg, Lisa Dellmuth | 8 Feb 2023