- Over at JOTWELL, Stuart Banner praises Jed Shugerman's The People's Courts.
- Readers on the history job market: Historical Society blogger Heather Cox Richardson has some advice for you. Also from the Historical Society: a round-up of resources on this topic from around the web.
- Around the Colloquia: Scott Douglas Gerber, Ohio Northern University Law, presented “The Intellectual Origins of Early American Law” to the Toledo Faculty Roundtable on October 1. Hat tip: Legal Scholarship Blog.
- Watch for John D. Gordan III's "Reversing the Wilkes Outlawry: What Did Lord Mansfield Really Say?" in the October Law Quarterly Review. Available now is Gordan's article, New York Justice in Civil War Louisiana, on Charles A. Peabody, a New York lawyer and sometimes judge whom Lincoln appointed to the Provisional Court of Louisiana in 1862.
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"FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of
Professional Ethics) is now accepting applications for a fellowship that uses
the conduct of lawyers and judges in Nazi Germany as a launching point for an
intensive two-week early summer program about contemporary legal ethics."
More. Hat tip:
H-Law.
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