- From Time magazine's website: a Labor Day op-ed by Caitlin Rosenthal (University of California, Berkeley) on the Emancipation Proclamation as "among the most important [labor regulations] in American history."
- This week in the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Walter D. Kamphoefner (Texas A&M) on "chain migration"; Mary Ziegler (Florida State University) on how "Brett Kavanaugh could shatter the alliance between the GOP and the antiabortion movement"; Michael D. Breidenbach (Ave Maria University) on "why the right to privacy should exist even after someone dies," and more.
- Thursday was a historic day for same-sex rights in India, where the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the "unnatural offences" provision of the Indian Penal Code (s.377). Great coverage of Navtej Singh Jauhar v. Union of India and the people behind it in the Indian Express, Scroll.in, and the Guardian (including photo highlights here). Here is a piece on how Indian legal academia influenced the judgment.
- Also on the Indian Penal Code via Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs' forum: Neeti Nair (UVA) has this historical take on religion and the limits of free speech in India.
- Over at the Legal History Miscellany: Jane M. Card on visual representations of the police in Victorian England.
- From Mother Jones, "An Old Anti-Irish Law Is at the Heart of Trump’s Plan to Reshape Legal Immigration," citing work by legal historian Hidetaka Hirota (Waseda University).
- Update: Some last-minute ideas for teaching, as the new semester gets under way--here and here at South Asian Legal History Resources (MS).
