- The Cornell Chronicle chronicled Juridical Colonialism, International Law and the Ottoman Response, a lecture by Mostafa Minawi, assistant professor of history and the director of Cornell University’s Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative.
- Lots of items of interest in the Washington Post's Made by History section: Mehrsa Baradaran (University of Georgia School of Law) on "why we need more government, not less, in the war on poverty"; Jamie Piltch (independent) on the trajectory of free speech on college campuses; Christopher W. Schmidt (Chicago-Kent School of Law/American Bar Foundation) on the "right to discriminate"; and Tisa Wenger (Yale Divinity School) on "discriminating in the name of religion."
- From the Journal of the Civil War Era, a "dispatch from the field" by Martha S. Jones (Johns Hopkins): "The Blood Is in the Details: When Scars of Slavery Are Markers of Freedom."
- On Monday, January 8, 2018, Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia, will present on his latest book, Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015 in Washington History Seminar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies.
- And on Friday, January 26, 2018, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Gerard Magliocca, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will speak on his new book, The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights, in the William G. McGowan Theater, of the National Archives in Washington, DC.
- Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School, will deliver the 2018 Annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London on February 8, 2018. His topic will be “Judith Shklar’s Critique of Cold War Liberalism.”
- The University of Chicago Law faculty is out with its “What Are We Reading?" list. James F. Simon’s Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties, makes it.
- O Mar no Direito Romano: the latest conference from Teoria e História do Direito, Centro de Investigação da ULisboa.
- OUPblog invites you to test your knowledge of the English legal system.
- "Apply for the 2018 Nuclear History Boot Camp," urges the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. (So long, Mom; I'm off to study the Bomb?)
- ICYMI: Our recent Guest Blogger Melissa Milewski on Can We Count on the Courts to Curb Trump? Digging Into Virginia's History of Sterilization, an interview of Lulu Miller, co-host of National Public Radio's Invisibilia. Michael G. Bazemore Jr., Shaw University, notes the medieval origins of sanctuary cities. Douglas E. Abrams, on The Cuban Missile Crisis, Historian Barbara W. Tuchman, and the “Art of Writing.”
- One week away: the deadline for Newberry Library short-term fellowships is Dec.15, 2018. Details here.
