- The Law & Political Economy blog has been running a series (called "1LPE") on what it would mean to teach courses in the first-year law school curriculum from a law and political economy perspective. Perhaps not surprisingly, lessons from history are crucial. See, for example, this recent post by Michelle Wilde Anderson (Stanford Law School) on Property Law and the creation of the racial wealth gap. See also this post, by Kali Murray (Marquette University Law School), on "teaching from narrative" and how she makes use of the diary of an antebellum African-American abolitionist.
- From the American Political Development blog A House Divided: Calvin TerBeek on "how conservatives embraced the Bill of Rights and incorporation."
- Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has issued a call for Postdoctoral and Research Scholarships 2020. Deadline 31st May 2019.
- On February 7, Martha S. Jones spoke on Birthright Citizens at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University. LHB's own Mitra Sharafi spoke on Abortion in South Asia, 1860-1947: A Medico-Legal History at the Stanford Law School on February 14. And James Loeffler will deliver the 2019 Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies on Wednesday, February 20, at UC Santa Cruz on the topic The Right to Be Heard: Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy.
- New online in Law and History Review via the Cambridge Core are William Johnson's Hypothesis: A Free Black Man and the Problem of Legal Knowledge in the Antebellum United States South, by Kimberly Welch, and Married Women's Wills: Probate, Property, and Piety in Later Medieval England, by Cordelia Beattie.
- In the Washington Post's "Made by History" section this past week: Sara McDougall (John Jay College/CUNY Graduate Center) (recently spotlighted on this blog, here) on "When the Catholic Church’s prohibition on scandal helped women"; Judith Friedlander (Hunter College) on "Why left and right both get the meaning of academic freedom wrong"; and more.
