The project aims to bring together new, innovative scholarship in the field in order to critically test our assumptions about what ‘ancient law’ means, and will include contributions on the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India and Rabbinic law. 2/3
Now that the ink is dry, we are delighted to announce that our edited volume ‘Legal Thinking and Society in Antiquity: Testing the Limits of Ancient Law’ on law in ancient Eurasia is under contract for publication with Routledge! 1/3
I still think it should be compulsory viewing, especially for those who maintain that civilian casualties can ever be justified. After some sleuthing, I was able to find the full film on YouTube - watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=1Nwn... (2/2)
"The true story of what happened in MY LAI has never been told before .. This video explores how a group of ordinary young Americans could perpetrate such at...
reuters.com/world/us/us-... When I saw this in the news this morning, I was viscerally reminded of the documentary 'Four Hours in My Lai: Anatomy of a Massacre'. I first saw it in school when I was about 15 years old, and I remember my throat hurting from trying not to cry. (1/2)
William Calley, who during the Vietnam War led his U.S. Army platoon into the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai and carried out one of the worst war crimes in American military history, has died, according to media reports. He was 80.
Not in my household, but I heard three teenagers sing it during my walk yesterday!
“A Nature reporter attended the event, and found it to be shambolic.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an investigation into dud events. Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an investigation into dud events.
Could it help to anticipate that they're going to complain anyway, and choose a place that you yourself want to go to? If there's no pleasing them, you might as well please yourself.
Weirdly, the student's name in the dream was a colleague's who is currently an assistant professor at a different university 😅 I have never met this person, but I'm sure they're not actually a mansplaining 20-year-old.