- James O'Fallon, formerly a law professor at the University of Oregon, has died. His publications include Nature’s Justice: Writing of William O. Douglas (Oregon State University Press, 2000), and “Marbury,” Stanford Law Review 44 (1992): 219-260.
- Attention Scalia, J., biographers: in an anecdote recounted here at 1:23, the director David O. Russell disrupts the justice's appearance in Hadley Arkes's class at Amherst.
- We continue to find items of interest in the Washington Post's "Made by History" section, including a piece by Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins) on the 14th Amendment and citizenship, Carly Goodman (American Friends Service Committee) on the "Diversity Visa" program, and Keisha Blain (University of Pittsburgh) on the connection between historical campaigns for anti-lynching laws and today's police violence.
- The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) at the Woodrow Wilson Center is currently accepting internship applications for the Fall 2017 semester. Additional details and application instructions.
- ICYMI: Annette Gordon Reed's writing routines; Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman, Yes, Trump Can Accept Gifts, New York Times, July 13, 2017. And, over at Balkinization, Georgetown Law’s John Mikhail presents the abstract for his SSRN paper, The Definition of "Emolument" in English Language and Legal Dictionaries, 1523-1806, together with some tables and figures summarizing its main findings showing “why the Trump Justice Department’s narrow definition of ‘emolument’ in CREW v. Trump cannot withstand scrutiny."
