- Via our friends at Iowa Law, word of a faculty fellowship position, appointed at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. The fellowship "prioritizes applicants who seek to conduct interdisciplinary research that connects with other fields of study at the University of Iowa."
- As always, the Washington Post's "Made by History" section published a number of interesting op-eds this week, including "Utah women had the right to vote long before others — and then had it taken away," by Katherine Kitterman (Ph.D. candidate, American University); and "What’s behind Virginia’s latest move to fix lending laws and protect borrowers," by Anne Fleming (Georgetown University Law Center).
- To mark the hundredth anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the first year in which the editors-in-chief of all of the nation’s top sixteen law reviews are women, those sixteen law reviews joined together to publish an issue on "Women & Law." Legal historians are well represented. For example, the Duke Law Journal's contribution comes from Dean Kerry Abrams and is titled "Family, Gender, and Leadership in the Legal Profession." The Stanford Law Review's contribution is by Maggie Blackhawk (University of Pennsylvania): "On Power and Indian Country." University of Virginia's Dean Risa Golobuff contributed a piece "On Firsts, Feminism, and the Future of the Legal Profession."
- Burnita Shelton Matthews, National Woman’s Party, and Condemning Land for the Marble Palace.
- New from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Accounting for Colonial Legal Personhood: New Intersectional Histories from the British Empire, by Antoinette Burton.
- Just published, a second edition of Law and People in Colonial America (Johns Hopkins University Press), by Peter Charles Hoffer, University of Georgia.
- The Woodrow Wilson Center seeks applications for the 2020 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research.
- Dire financial exigency is forcing the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to sell some of its holdings, including "the Freedom Box" citizens of New York gave Andrew Hamilton after his defense of John Peter Zenger.
