- CFP: Performing Law, Staging History: The (Re)Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar, a “one-day interdisciplinary roundtable [that] aims to bring together academics and practitioners from various fields including law, history, military studies, theatre, visual culture, politics and literature to analyse the Uprising of 1857 and the subsequent trial of the last Mughal Emperor of India at the Red Fort in Delhi.” More.
- We don't know how many LHB readers teach Sanborn v. McLean in a law-school Property course, but those who do really owe it to themselves and their students to consult the illustration on page 117 of Robert M. Fogelson's Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930 (Yale University Press, 2005), a gem of a book on restrictive covenants.
- Available online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core is “South Africa is the Mississippi of the world”: Anti-Apartheid Activism through Domestic Civil Rights Law, by Joanna L. Grisinger, Northwestern University.
- Patrick S. O'Donnell has posted the latest in his series of extraordinary bibliographies: North American Indians: History, Culture, Politics, and Law—A Bibliography.
- Having created Women Also Know History, Emily Prifogle and friends are now launching Women Also Know Law. Both databases offer a way to increase diversity on conference panels and beyond.
- "The Law Society of British Columbia has moved to require Indigenous cultural competency training for all practising lawyers in the province" (Coast Mountain News). More.
- “The Delaware State Bar Association is set to host a CLE program titled “Delaware and Desegregation: Belton v. Gebhart and a History of Desegregation in Delaware” from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Dec. 17" (Law.com). More.
- Seth Barrett Tillman has posted A Religious Test in America?: New Sources on the 1809 Motion to Vacate Jacob Henry’s North Carolina State Legislative Seat.
- ICYMI: David Dismore on Alice Paul in Ms. David Blanchette on Teaching LGBT history in the Illinois Times. Matthew Walther on The English history of impeachment in The Week. The State Historical Society of Missouri--which, we should add, opened a stunning, new research center in Columbia earlier this year--has awarded its 2020 fellowships, including one on “laws that tried to keep Native Americans out of the state,” in the Missourian. Noah Feldman on Trump and the Meaning of Impeachment: My Testimony Before Congress, in the NYRB.
- Update: Submission deadline for Policy History Conference had been extended to January 15, 2020. Registration for the May 2020 annual meeting of Law and Society Association has opened.