- As best we can make out from this story in the Providence Journal, Frederick Schroeder Jr., of Providence, who, according to his attorney, “buys boxes of documents at estate sales,” was auctioning off on eBay a docket book from Inferior Court of the Common Pleas in Providence County for the years 1746 to 1749, when “a legal history researcher at the University of Pennsylvania” alerted Rhode Island state archivist, Ashley Selima. Bidding opened at $9.99 and had reached $960 when the state obtained an injunction halting the sale.
- Congratulations to Samantha Barbas, Buffalo Law, for silver medaling in the History category of the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards, for Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle Over Privacy and Press Freedom (Stanford University Press).
- This week, in the Washington Post’s Made by History series, Christopher W. Schmidt, Chicago-Kent Law, published The Parkland students can transform the gun-control movement.
- We learn from H-Law that Siobhan Barco has posted a new H-Law Podcast, a discussion with Fahad Ahmad Bishara about his A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press). In earlier podcasts, Barco spoke with Daniel Sharfstein, Eric Foner, William Domnarski, Al Brophy, Sara L. Crosby, Samantha Barbas, and Mary Ziegler.
- Also on H-Law, Jay Gates, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, reviews Tom Lambert’s Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press).
- H. T. Smith, FIU Law, recently spoke to the Dade County Bar Association on the “history of the challenges Black lawyers have faced over the years in Miami-Dade County.”
- If you’re interested in more from David Abraham, University of Miami Law, on immigration, you might try Circumcision: Immigration, Religion, History, and Constitutional Identity in Germany and the U.S., published in the German Law Journal.
- ICYMI: The New York Times thinks we should look back to Philip Kurland's review of Raoul Berger on impeachment for perspective on Cass Sunstein's latest book. Dr. Mary Frances Berry on How History Repeats Itself: an excerpt from Dr. Berry’s new book, History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times. Adam Winkler interviewed about We the Corporations on Alternet.
