- Congratulations to LHB Guest Blogger Mary Ziegler for winning the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for her book After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate. The Wilson Prize "is awarded to an author’s first book manuscript, approved for publication by the Board of Syndics of Harvard University Press in a given calendar year, that is judged outstanding in content, style, and mode of presentation.” H/t: Laura Kalman
- The latest episode of the radio show/podcast Backstory is Court of Public Opinion: A History of Trial-Watching in America, which takes up “America’s fascination with crime and punishment” from Puritan hangings to the Netflix series ‘Making a Murderer.’” (UVA Law’s Risa Goluboff has a cameo.)
- New Exhibit at Texas Law’s Tarlton Law Library: Early English Legal Manuscripts.
- The Call for Proposals for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association is available here. The theme is ""Historical Scale: Linking Levels of Experience."
- ICYMI: RBG on LDB (via HNN); Thurgood Marshall at St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal Church in Harlem (via NYT's Unpublished Black History)
- At the Miller Center for Public Affairs on Wednesday, February 24, 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m, Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia School of Law, discusses her new book, Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s.
- On Friday, February 19, from 6:30 - 8:30 pm, the Arizona State University’s Center for Political Thought and Leadership will host the discussion New Challenges to Constitutional Law. The Center explains: “The courts have become a battleground for presidential and regulatory overreach in issues ranging from Obamacare and immigration to foreign policy. At issue is the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. “ The “five distinguished legal scholars” who will address the topic are Clint Bolick, Supreme Court of Arizona, Eric Claeys, George Mason Law; Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law; Jonathan H. Adler, Case Western Reserve University Law; and Chris DeRose, Special Assistant Attorney General in Arizona. John Lopez, Solicitor General in Arizona, will moderate.
