- Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words, a new exhibit at the Library of Congress, opens December 5.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: ) and Laura Weinstein (independent scholar) on "why a 1972 Northern Ireland murder matters so much to historians"; Margaret A. Nash (University of California, Riverside) on "The dark history of land-grant universities"; and more.
- The Law and Society Association has issued a call for applications for a Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop. It will be held May 26-27, 2020, in Denver, Colorado, immediately preceding the LSA Annual Meeting. More information here.
- Writing for JOTWELL's Criminal Law Section, Jonathan Simon (Berkeley Law) has posted an admiring review of Laura I. Appleman's "Deviancy, Dependency, and Disability: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration," which appeared in Volume 68 of the Duke Law Journal (2018).
- The University of Chicago Law School celebrated Nelson Willis (LL.B. 1918), its first African American graduate.
- Megan Siu reviews Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler, ed. Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett & Travis Hay (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017).
- Check out "Radical Movements" by Christopher Szabla, a review essay in The New Rambler on Renisa Mawani's book, Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire.
- Yesterday past-ASLH-president Constance Backhouse delivered the Shannon Lecture at Carleton University’s Department of History, Feminism and the Supreme Court: How the First Two Women Appointed to Our Top Court Widened Judicial Debates.
- Philip Girard, Osgoode Hall Law School, delivered the keynote address to the first conference of the Legal History Society of Nigeria. More.
- Victoria Woeste presented “Fake News: Antisemitic Propaganda from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the Era of Trump,” at the conference on Social Media and Antisemitism, Edge Hill University, England.
- Tulane Law celebrated the gift of a 200-year-old manuscript on Civil Law of Louisiana by Louis Moreau Lislet.
- New online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Litigants in the English “Court of Poor Men's Causes,” or Court of Requests, 1515–25, by Laura Flannigan, and The Strange Career of Gross Indecency: Race, Sex, and Law in Colonial Singapore, by J. Y. Chua.
- ICYMI: Adam Hochshild on the Palmer Raids in the New Yorker. A New York lawyer discovers William Maxwell Evarts. Dean Strang's radio interview on his new book, Keep the Wretches in Order, on prosecuting Wobblies during World War I. Thanks a lot, Isaac Royall, Jr.: “Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne demanded that the university pay his country reparations 'for the gains Harvard enjoyed at the expense' of Antiguan slaves” (WaPo). Richard A. Epstein on How Bad Constitutional Law Leads to Bad Economic Regulations, in The Atlantic. Henry Louis Gates on Redeemers in the NYT.
