- The Viennese Legal History Society (Wiener Rechtsgeschichtliche Gesellschaft) holds its events online via Zoom during the pandemic and opens the talks now for the wider public. On 19 January, at 18:50 Vienna, Professor Thomas Simon (Vienna) will give a talk in German with the title: "Christlich", "deutsch", "ständisch": Die sog. "Maiverfassung" 1934 und der "Autoritäre Ständestaat". Versuch einer verfassungsgeschichtlichen Einordnung. Zoom link.
- Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia, on Disorder, Riot, and Governance in Early Tudor London: Evil May Day, 1517,
in the Late Medieval Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research at
the University of London, February 5, 2021, 5:30PM - 7:00PM.
- On Monday, March 8, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm, former LHB Guest Blogger Thomas McSweeney, William and Mary Law School, will discuss his book Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law's First Professionals (Oxford University Press, 2020) with Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School. Register and more here.
- The University of Nebraska, Lincoln is advertising a postdoctoral research associateship for “a project manager of a collaborative team collecting and processing habeas corpus petitions to design and populate a robust database that will allow researchers to demonstrate the many interpersonal and institutional relationships evident in these claims to freedom while also assessing their significance and value within the larger body of American jurisprudence.” More.
- New Books in Law has an interview with Virginia Torrie on her book Reinventing
Bankruptcy Law, which we've previously spotlighted.
- Jane Dailey, University of Chicago, discusses her new book, White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History, and "what America’s history with lynch mobs can teach us about the attack on the Capitol" with the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles on Legal Talk Network.
- Nial Osborough, "Ireland’s greatest legal historian," is dead (Irish Times).
- The Supreme Court Historical Society has lesson plans for its video, "The Supreme Court and the 1876 Presidential Election."
- The Organization of American Historians has issued a statement January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
- “The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is now accepting nominations for the 2020 Dorothy Ross Prize for best article in US intellectual history by an emerging scholar."
- Over at Environment, Law, and History, David Schorr notices Thomas Le Roux’s extended review of Chad Montrie's The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism (U Cal Press, 2018).
- Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library explores “historic artifacts, documents, photographs, and film from the inaugural ceremonies of 1933, 1937, 1941, and 1945" on January 20 at 2PM. More.
- Legal historical op-eds and other writings on self-pardons, the 25th Amendment, impeachment, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and related matters are legion. Here is a smattering: The US Senate History office on the post-resignation impeachment of William Belknap. William Eskridge says self-pardoning isn't a thing (WaPo). Mark Graber on the second impeachment (WBALTV). How scholars interpret "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" (NatGeo). John D. Feerick on our nation's history with presidential inability and succession (The Hill). Eric Foner and Gerard N. Magliocca on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment (WaPo). Joanne Freeman ad Geoffrey Stone on sedition (NYT). Gregory Ablavsky compares the assault on the Capitol with the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 (Stanford News).
- Also Phil Magness and the Pacific Legal Foundation on the 1619 Project (PLF).
- Update: Shirley Abrahamson's NYT obituary.
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