- If you'd like to see how legal historians' scholarship figured in the recently decided Emoluments Clause decision Blumenthal v. Trump, Judge Sullivan's decision is here. I was pleased to note the Judge's particular reliance on the scholarship of my Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail. Marcia Coyle discusses the historians' brief in the case in the National Law Journal. H/t DV. --DRE
- The University of Wisconsin Law School introduces this year’s Hurst Fellows, with brief bios and descriptions of their projects. More.
- We have received a call for papers from the Theory and History of Law Center of the University of Lisbon on the 250th anniversary of what our computer somewhat dubiously translates from the Portuguese as “A Good Reason Law of August 18, 1769.” Deadline is May 31, 2019.
- Marlene Daut, University of Virginia, on the constitutional history of Haiti.
- The Historical Society of the New York Courts has posted an excerpt from Paul McGrath's "People v. Croswell: Alexander Hamilton and the Transformation of the Common Law of Libel," which originally appeared in Judicial Notice, the Society's journal, available here.
- Available online (and ungated) from the American Journal of Legal History: Re-tying the knot? Remarriage and divorce by consent in mid-Victorian England by Penelope Russell, and Justice under Administration: An Overview of Judiciary and Courts in Spain, 1834–1870, by Julia Solla.
- Our friends at the Federal Judicial Center recently tweeted out the link to its report, Federal Judiciary Appropriations, 1792-2010, written by Daniel S. Holt in January 2012.
- On HNN: Anders Walker, Racism’s Longue Durée: Why the Citizens’ Councils Matter Now, a review of Stephanie Rolph's Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954-1989.
- ICYMI: Preserving the sites of Nat Turner's Rebellion, in WaPo. South Carolina's "blue laws" in the Greenville News. Annette Gordon-Reed makes sure legal history is part of HLS’s pre-orientation. How George Carlin’s ‘Seven Words’ Changed Legal History, on Biography.
