Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Socratess: a weekly law tutorial with teeth
A self-directed Oxford law curriculum built around weekly reading lists, essay questions, reports, transcripts, and a glossary.
Why it surfacedThis week's lesson asks whether the ratio decidendi of a case is fixed by the deciding court or constructed by later courts, using Donoghue v Stevenson as its test case. Seven carefully chosen readings, an essay deadline, and a note explaining why an earlier jurisprudence set was withdrawn give the site the texture of an actual tutorial rather than a generic study page.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.