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- Legal historian Rayman L. Solomon, Dean of Rutgers-Camden School of Law, is moving on up -- to Provost. His appointment begins on January 1, 2014 (Hat tip: Faculty Lounge).
- From the Junto: a post on Litchfield Law School and the Revolutionary Elite.
- We somehow missed the appearance last spring of Ross E. Davies’s Learned Hand Sings, Part One: Liner Notes for “Songs of His Youth,” 16 Green Bag 2d 257 (2013).
- On November 15, Nottingham Trent University will host a research symposium on Crime and Media in Historical and Contemporary Perspective (Hat tip: Legal Scholarship Blog)
- Eric K. Yamamoto, Margaret Chon, Carol L. Izumi, Jerry Kang, and Frank H. Wu have have published a second edition of Race, Rights, and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, which critically examines “the legal, social, and ethical ramifications of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II; and the successful reparations movement of the 1980s.” This edition substantially revises the original. For example, “several new chapters expressly link the Japanese-American internment cases and redress to the civil liberties and national security issues raised post-9/11.”
- Ira Katznelson will discuss his book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time at the UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs on Wednesday, December 4 at 11:00 a.m.