- The Library of Congress has launched the Constitution Annotated, “the authoritative source for how the Supreme Court has interpreted the nation’s governing document over the years.”
- Harper’s Magazine is out with a forum, moderated by Rosa Brooks, published as Constitution in Crisis: Has America’s founding document become the nation’s undoing? The other participant are Donna Edwards, Mary Anne Franks, David Law, Lawrence Lessig, and Louis Michael Seidman.
- Josh Blackmon and Randy Barnett have published An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know, which is especially notable for the accompanying online library of sixty-three videos.
- The University of Arkansas has issued a release on its law review’s symposium on the bicentennial of M'Culloch v. Maryland.
- Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University, delivered the Gilder-Jordan Lecture at the University of Mississippi on September 17.
- Mary Frances Berry, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, a former chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and the author, most recently, of History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times, will help lead “an ‘organizing for change’ panel discussion September 22 at the Milford Theater, 114 Catherine St., Milford, [PA]." More.
- ICYMI: A report of Jean Teillet's discussion of her book The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation, at the Law Society of Ontario on September 18 (Law Times). "The historical differences between Scottish and English Law, and what it means for Brexit" (BBC History Extra). A Constitution Day plea for the study of state constitutions (Real Clear Politics). Erika Lee, University of Minnesota, on “the enduring history of American xenophobia” (MinnPost)
- Catching up on the Legal History Miscellany: Sara M. Butler (The Ohio State University) on priests claiming sanctuary and serfs vs. slaves in medieval England, Krista J. Kesselring (Dalhousie University) on Elizabethan witch trials, and Cassie Watson (Oxford Brookes University) on a 19th-c. poisoning in the Inner Hebrides
- The exhibit “Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow,” on loan from the New-York Historical Society, runs from October 18 to December 31 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham Times, via the Philadelphia Tribune)
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Jamie Pietruska (Rutgers University) on "why President Trump gutting the USDA’s research service is so dangerous"; Steele Brand (King's College) on "why knowing Roman history is key to preserving America’s future"; and more.
- The University of Hong Kong has announced its first law and humanities summer school. The dates are June 8-13, 2020. More information here.
- From In Custodia Legis, a guest post by Ryan Reft on "Federal Courts, Judge Gerhard Gesell, and the Security State." Also a guest post by Stephen Mayeaux, in collaboration with Dante Figueroa, on Spanish Legal Documents (15th to 19th centuries).