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zacharyherz.bsky.social
Rural jurist at the University of Colorado. All opinions yours.
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Quote from a final (posted with permission): “Without a doubt, Rome fell when Broadway began.”

Call for papers is out from the American Society for Legal History! This is my favorite conference to present at, by far: wonderful audiences, who engage closely without tearing anybody down, and they love ancient law! Hit me up with questions and then SUBMIT. aslh.confex.com/aslh/2025/cf...

Quiz time: in order to get Moose to pose like this, you have to hold up A) a treat B) page proofs for Cambridge’s forthcoming translation of the Theodosian code; or C) all of the above #romanlaw #boyaremyarmstired

Finally heard a Tate MacRae song, and I no longer understand gay men. Why do we stan this woman

After si, nisi, num, and ne Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est

Legal historiography pupdate: Moose is under contract with Cambridge University Press Studies in Legal History! The God and the Bureaucrat: Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories should be coming out in ‘25. Hopefully they get his name right. #romanlaw #undercontract #getit

Just remember—when you make fun of Ulpian’s self-aggrandizing notion of jurists as ‘sacerdotes’ at D.1.1, THIS is who you’re making fun of. #romanlaw #guilttrip

tfw you’ve made yourself regent to the child ruler Severus Alexander, but end up being killed on a military coup sometime between 223 and 228 C.E. #romanlaw #awkward

Hadrian’s Edictum Perpetuum IS brat #romanlaw #digest #bookxcx

One of life's great pleasures is reading student responses to "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema." #ifyouknowyouknow

@jbouie.bsky.social is the only NYT op-Ed who makes me feel smarter for reading him (specifically because he pointed me to the Rancho Gordo table of instant pot cooking times)

Enthusiasm @bonniehonig.bsky.social

Cannot emphasize enough, the man making this critique looks like Chappell Roan’s Wario

Herz: just remember that no one cares how your talk goes

🎼 he has slept countless aeons/In the frigid, cold beyond/Scream IO, CTHULHU PHTHAGN/it's the Necronomicon 🎼

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