- Ancestry has opened its collection of Freedmen's Bureau records to the public.
- Over at Völkerrechtsblog (“an academic blog on all matters of international public law and international legal thought”): Legal Imagination as Bricolage, a review symposium on Martti Koskenniemi’s To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power 1300–1870.
- Above the Law's Kathryn Rubino interviews Patricia Cain about Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors and her career.
- Congratulations to Ajay Mehrotra, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern Law, upon his election to the American Law Institute!
- The University of Arkansas School of Law Alumni Society Board of Directors has awarded its 2021 Commitment to Justice award to the federal judge (and legal historian) Morris Arnold. (More.)
- On September 16th from 3-4 p.m. EDT, the Library of Congress will present (via webinar) its annual Constitution Day Lecture. Kurt Lash (University of Richmond) will present “The Transformation of the Bill of Rights:
Incorporation Doctrine and the Fourteenth Amendment.” More information here.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: 2021’s ‘Stillwater,’ 1979’s ‘Norma Rae,' and the protagonists' fight against Hollywood to to tell their stories; Nativism in U.S. politics has thwarted refugee resettlement before."
- From In Custodia Legis, more posts inspired by the "Herencia" collection: "Criminals and Coins: Understanding 17th Century Spanish Economy through Counterfeit Currency"; "Who’s to Blame for Lost Silver and Gold? Laments of Financial Troubles in Spain 1588."
- The Balkinization symposium on James Pfander's Cases Without Controversies comes to a close, with several author responses (here's the first).
- "Roosevelt Institute Morgenthau Scholar Dr. Abby Gondek talks to FDR Library Supervisory Archivist Kirsten Carter about how data visualizations from 3,000 letters from the public about the Emergency Refugee Center in Oswego, NY, reveal the US government’s response through the War Refugee Board to rescue refugees during the Holocaust." (FDRLibrary YouTube)
- ICYMI: Lawrence B. Glickman on "Business as Usual: The Long History of Corporate Personhood" (Boston Review). Melvin I. Urofsky reviews Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights, by Erwin Chemerinsky (NYT). Mary Ziegler on the Texas, the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade (NYT).
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