Paul du Plessis
@sententiaepauli.bsky.social
All things Roman and Roman law.
Today ask yourself only one question.
Where were you when Spanish Eddie cashed it in?
Where were you when Spanish Eddie cashed it in?
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Today ask yourself only one question.
Where were you when Spanish Eddie cashed it in?
Where were you when Spanish Eddie cashed it in?
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Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
Annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
Join us for the 6th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
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November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
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A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
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October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
I’ve been looking out for this book. It looks like a fun topic. #RomanLaw
Very pleased that my book The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome, co-edited with colleagues in classical studies, and for which I contributed the opening chapter, will be published this week by Oxford. A splendid interdisciplinary endeavor.
academic.oup.com/book/61402
academic.oup.com/book/61402
The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome
Abstract. This volume brings together the study of the rule of law—the idea that the law should protect citizens from arbitrary exercises of power—and the
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October 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I’ve been looking out for this book. It looks like a fun topic. #RomanLaw
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France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...
Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
sciencebusiness.net
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...
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✒️ New on the blog
@sententiaepauli.bsky.social chats to EUP about his new book: Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism.
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@sententiaepauli.bsky.social chats to EUP about his new book: Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism.
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Q&A with Paul du Plessis on Henry Maine’s Ancient Law
My monograph aims to revisit the book with the central question: what did Maine believe he was doing when he wrote Ancient Law?
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October 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
✒️ New on the blog
@sententiaepauli.bsky.social chats to EUP about his new book: Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism.
Read the post:
@sententiaepauli.bsky.social chats to EUP about his new book: Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism.
Read the post:
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Our first event for the coming academic year. It is an in-person event. #RomanLaw
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
Utilitas - The Word That Changes Everything? | Edinburgh Law School
www.law.ed.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Our first event for the coming academic year. It is an in-person event. #RomanLaw
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
Utilitas - The Word That Changes Everything? | Edinburgh Law School
www.law.ed.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It’s publication day, folks. Available from the website of the Press or from Amazon. May you find it useful in your own work.
#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
#RomanLaw
#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
#RomanLaw
September 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It’s publication day, folks. Available from the website of the Press or from Amazon. May you find it useful in your own work.
#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
#RomanLaw
#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
#RomanLaw
The Latin word for dad joke is laughterfamilias.
September 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna
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Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna
The so-called Byzantine Empire, which existed for more than a thousand years with Constantinople as its capital, demonstrates the birth of a new world with the wedding of Western and Eastern tradit…
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September 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna
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Here’s how I sometimes start a new project.
First I buy a fancy new notebook.
Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page.
Third I never look at it again.
First I buy a fancy new notebook.
Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page.
Third I never look at it again.
September 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Here’s how I sometimes start a new project.
First I buy a fancy new notebook.
Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page.
Third I never look at it again.
First I buy a fancy new notebook.
Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page.
Third I never look at it again.
#AncientLaw - early November. Good line-up.
September 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
#AncientLaw - early November. Good line-up.
Preach it from the hilltops.
Seriously peer-reviewers, this is not 19th century and we are (I hope!) no longer publishing in Mitteilungen der Akademie für Geschichte der Gelehrtengesellschaft Göttingen. Let people actually submit writing that others want to read and stop policing "academic style".
Returning to article peer review comments (which boil down to 'take out all the good bits and the jokes') and longing for death
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Preach it from the hilltops.
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Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
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The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time
a woman in a suit holds her hand to her face
ALT: a woman in a suit holds her hand to her face
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September 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time
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The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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September 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...
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I have nothing to declare except my imposter syndrome.
September 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I have nothing to declare except my imposter syndrome.
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An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
September 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
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The Full Moon this month is known as Stationery Moon.
Traditionally the time of year for harvesting notebooks, pens and pencils.
Traditionally the time of year for harvesting notebooks, pens and pencils.
September 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Full Moon this month is known as Stationery Moon.
Traditionally the time of year for harvesting notebooks, pens and pencils.
Traditionally the time of year for harvesting notebooks, pens and pencils.
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Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present
17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location)
Deadline 31 October 2025
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location)
Deadline 31 October 2025
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
September 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present
17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location)
Deadline 31 October 2025
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location)
Deadline 31 October 2025
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
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Excited to invite you to the launch of Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions.
Hear from contributors on how and why to teach it, and its subversive potential!
6pm, Monday 8 Sept, online.
Booking: forms.office.com/e/VFgwKs9iHM
Hear from contributors on how and why to teach it, and its subversive potential!
6pm, Monday 8 Sept, online.
Booking: forms.office.com/e/VFgwKs9iHM
August 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Excited to invite you to the launch of Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions.
Hear from contributors on how and why to teach it, and its subversive potential!
6pm, Monday 8 Sept, online.
Booking: forms.office.com/e/VFgwKs9iHM
Hear from contributors on how and why to teach it, and its subversive potential!
6pm, Monday 8 Sept, online.
Booking: forms.office.com/e/VFgwKs9iHM
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Freud, preface to updated edition of The Interpretation of Dreams.
August 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Freud, preface to updated edition of The Interpretation of Dreams.