- Charles Evans Hughes and The Role of New York's Organized Bar at a Time of Crisis for the Rule of Law, the 55th Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Lecture, delivered by Henry F. Greenberg, president-elect of the New York State Bar Association, is now available.
- New in Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: “Plant Yourselves on its Primal Granite”: Slavery, History and the Antebellum Roots of Originalism, by Aaron R. Hall; and Disqualified Witnesses between Tannaitic Halakha and Roman Law: The Archeology of a Legal Institution, by Orit Malka.
- Have you registered for ASLH Boston yet?
- Eric Rauchway will speak on his book, Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal, on Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. I recently read Winter War and learned a great deal from it. In particular, I was struck by its depiction of Hoover as a person who, incapable of taking no for an answer on November 8, 1932, at once started laying the foundation for what he was certain would be his inevitable vindication. But even this was to be denied him: when conservatives finally looked for an early twentieth-century president to exalt, they rejected Hoover (the Reconstruction Finance Corporation looked too much like the Troubled Asset Relief Program) in favor of Coolidge. DRE
- ICYMI: John Mikhail on Hammer v. Dagenhart, United States v. Darby, and the Tenth Amendment over at Balkinization. Also at Balkinization, Mark Tushnet on Justice Gorsuch getting his history of the Schechter case from Amity Shlaes. Sam Erman on how Isabel Gonzalez shows us that the Constitution is what we make of it in The Hill.
- And finally: check out the online database, England's Immigrants 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages. It has entries on over 64,000 peoples, along with themed posts (under Background: Individual Studies).