Rafi Reznik
rafireznik.bsky.social
Rafi Reznik
@rafireznik.bsky.social
Polonsky postdoctoral fellow @Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, teaching @Hebrew University Faculty of Law | Criminal law, law & humanities, violence & nonviolence | ssrn.com/author=2280020
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"What kind of people do we have to become in order to achieve peaceful cities, societies, and states?"

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins revisits William James's prescription for national conscription www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
Conscription for Peace
What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Excited to read this book. Unlike his contemporaries Ayalti's first novel about the Russian pale was written in Hebrew and with his second that takes place in Palestine he moved to Yiddish. The first was great but this has never been translated into Hebrew. @forward.com
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A glimpse of the Jewish left in 1920s Palestine
Hanan Ayalti’s Yiddish novel "Boom and Chains," now in English, portrays the external and internal struggles of the Jewish pioneers
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October 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, and to support emerging scholars, I'd like to buy and mail copies to ten graduate students.

If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!

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Civilizing Contention by Rana B. Khoury | Paperback | Cornell University Press
In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury asserts that to understand civilian and refugee activism in war, we must regard the international actors and organizations that enter the scene to help. When.....
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October 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This author suggested changing the Bluebook rule for films. (Use the director, not producer). Instead, the new version now has different rules for "commercial" and "noncommercial" films, which leads to this problem.
cc: @brianlfrye.bsky.social
#Bluebook
#LegalCitation
#LegalWriting
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This is amazing. For shame, Bluebook editors! Rafi is right & you should adopt his suggestion.
October 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Why Didn't the Bluebook Editors Take My Advice on Citing Films?
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Why Didn't the Bluebook Editors Take My Advice on Citing Films?
This short note critiques the Bluebook 22nd edition rule <span>18.7.1. on the citation of films.</span>
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October 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors

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October 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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My new article, 'Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration', is now available (open access) in APSR
@apsrjournal.bsky.social

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Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration
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October 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars
[We have the following Call for Participation for the 2026 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars.  DRE] Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 24th meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on June 8-9, 2026.  About the Workshop.  The workshop is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and independent scholars working in law and the humanities. In addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, including Black and Indigenous studies, history, literature, political theory, critical race theory, feminist theory, and philosophy, we welcome critical, qualitative work in the social sciences, including anthropology and sociology. While the scope of the Workshop is broad, we cannot consider proposals that are focused solely on quantitative social science research or that are limited to doctrinal legal research. We are especially interested in submissions touching on themes of inequality, anti-racism and anti-subordination. We welcome submissions from those working at regional and teaching-intensive institutions. Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, between six and eight papers will be chosen for presentation at the Workshop, where two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and methodology. The selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants that may include themes connecting all of the projects, as well as discussion of the evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship. The selected papers may appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network at SSRN; there is no other publication commitment. (We will accommodate the wishes of chosen authors who prefer not to have their paper posted publicly with us because of publication commitments to other journals.) However, we will only accept Workshop participants whose papers are true works in progress; articles or chapters that are already in page proofs or are otherwise unable to be revised by the time of the Workshop are ineligible. The Workshop will pay the domestic travel and hotel expenses of authors whose papers are selected for presentation. For authors requiring airline travel from outside the United States, the Workshop will cover such travel expenses up to a maximum of $1250. Submission Instructions.  Applications should be submitted through the submissions portal on the Law and Humanities Workshop website [here].  Your application should consist of a single Microsoft Word document (not PDF) containing: * a 1500-2000 word summary of your paper (word count includes footnotes or endnotes); * a 1-2 page bibliography; and, * if your paper is a chapter in a book or dissertation, an optional 1-page chapter outline of the larger project. Applications are due on Monday, December 1, 2025. If your application advances to the final stage of consideration, you will be asked to submit the full paper by January 15, 2026. Please do not apply if you will not have a full paper on January 15. Your application should be a summary of existing, ongoing work rather than a proposal for new or planned work. The full paper must be a work-in-progress that does not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes/ endnotes). A dissertation chapter may be submitted, but we strongly suggest that it be edited so as to stand alone as a piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for publication is eligible for selection so long as it will not be in galley proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop; it is important that authors still be in a position at the time of the Workshop to consider comments they receive there and to incorporate them as they think appropriate in their revisions. We ask that those submitting applications be careful to omit or redact any information in the paper summary, bibliography, or chapter outline that might serve to identify them, as we adhere to an anonymous or “blind” selection process. For more information, please send an email inquiry to Lawandhumanitiesworkshop@gmail.com or visit [here]. Program Committee, 2026 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars Riaz Tejani, Chapman University, Law, Chair LaToya Baldwin Clark, University of California Los Angeles, Law Danielle Boaz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Africana Studies David Eng, University of Pennsylvania, English & Asian American Studies Melynda Price, University of Michigan, Women and Gender Studies Clyde Spillenger, University of California Los Angeles, Law The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars is committed to anti-racism both inside and outside the academy.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journal.... Please circulate widely.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Now available from Columbia Business School Publishing! Provocative and comprehensive, Saving Ourselves from Big Car is a powerful wake-up call for us to change how we use cars before it’s too late. buff.ly/gzmGfnb @Columbia #BusinessBook #ClimateWeekNYC
September 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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ICYMI: "Does the Left Have a Problem with Political Violence?"
Alexis Papazoglou with Jacob Abolafia on political violence, emancipatory politics, continuing the work started by George Orwell, and the uses and abuses of Frantz Fanon's thinking.
#Philosophy
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"Does the left have a problem with political violence?": Alexis Papazoglou and Jacob Abolafia
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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September 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Koh on the Effect of Prosecuting Trump on the 2024 Election, buff.ly/snIgzTQ - Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University School of Law) has posted Why Did Prosecution Strengthen President Trump in the 2024 Election? on SSRN.
Koh on the Effect of Prosecuting Trump on the 2024 Election
Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University School of Law) has posted Why Did Prosecution Strengthen President Trump in the 2024 Election? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Why did criminal prosecution…
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August 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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My take on Luigi Mangione: "encapsulates this curious convergence between a mass shooter persona and a revolutionary discourse. This convergence finds a shared anchor in the logic of self-defense, exercised against a person chosen for purely symbolic reasons..."
Why Did Luigi Mangione Invoke Self-Defense? | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
September 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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“The rise of cease-fires as the world’s default response to war raises the question of whether or not we have abandoned the pursuit of peace itself as a political goal,” Linda Kinstler writes.
Why Wars Don’t End Anymore
In a pessimistic era, a temporary pause to fighting has become the most anyone is trying to achieve.
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August 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Norrie develops a fundamentally different mature retributive theory that could solve the intractable problems of crime and punishment.

Rethinking Criminal Justice by Alan Norrie 

#LawSky #Criminology 💙📚 #CriminalLaw

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June 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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12 funded PhDs in "Aesthetics of Democracy" at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Perfect for anyone who has absorbed my book 'The Landscape of Utopia' ;) aesthetics-of-democracy.de?lang=en
Ästhetik der Demokratie
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August 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Issue 35—which is dedicated entirely to the question of violence—is coming soon. Check out the annotated table of contents for an extended preview:
Issue 35 | The Point Magazine
The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 35.
thepointmag.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Murray on Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice /
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Murray on Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice
Brian Murray, Seton Hall Law School, is publishing Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice in volume 101 of the Notre Dame ...
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July 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social about the myth that technology can be value free. Why do we let Silicon Valley get away with the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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If law is an artefact, can coercion be considered as something necessary for its existence and functioning?

Here, I examine why law may necessarily depend on coercion both to exist and to fulfil its functions - even in law-abiding & puzzled societies.

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May 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM