- Coming up at Boston College is Legally Blind: Law, Ethics, and the Third Reich, a conference focusing “on Nazi Law as it impacts upon Civil Law, Race, Medicine, and Religion.” It will take place March 10-11, 2015, in the Heights Room of BC’s Corcoran Commons. This event is free and open to the public. The schedule is here. It includes John Q. Barrett, St. John’s University School of Law, on “Dawning, Developing Comprehension of Nazi Law-Breaking & Atrocities: Justice Robert H. Jackson on the Road to Nuremberg, 1940-1945.” Register here by March 6, 2015.
- From JOTWELL: Elaine Craig (Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law) has written an appreciative review of Michael Boucai's "Glorious Precedents" (mentioned on the blog here).
- We're just about two weeks away from the March 15 deadline for the submission of panels and papers for ASLH 2015 in Washington, DC. Hat tip: Kyle Volk.
- Just out in the (gated) Journal of the Early Republic is A Crisis of Legitimacy: Defining the Boundaries of Kinship in the Low Country during the Early Republic, by Adam Wolkoff, a doctoral candidate in history at Rutgers University. It addresses “the limits of testamentary freedom in cases where slaveholders left estates to partners and children who were free persons of color.” The same issue includes Saying ‘‘No’’ to the State, a review essay by Staughton Lynd of Lewis Perry’s Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition (Yale University Press, 2013).
- Kent Germany, University of South Carolina, in AHA Today on The Voting Rights Act and the Challenge of Getting It Right.
- In the Service of Clio continues to post useful job hunting tips.
- From In Custodia Legis: an interview with Ken Mack (Harvard Law School).
