- The Federal Judicial Center has posted another entry in its "Spotlight on Judicial History" series: The 1957 Employers' Liability Cases.
- Via Legally Queer on Instagram: Justice Thurgood Marshall's LGBTQ Legacy.
- Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner discuss their book Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court on Illinois Public Radio.
- Twitter--or at least our portion of it--is abuzz with news of a website at Rutgers University that is chock full of documents on state constitutions, which we gather is the work of G. Alan Tarr. H/t: Julian Davis Mortenson and Rachel Sheldon. It contains "scanned constitutions, convention records, and legislative materials for the historical constitutions of all 50 states."
- Congratulations to John R. Wunder on his receipt of the 2021 Sower Award in the Humanities from Humanities Nebraska. And congratulations to Molly Brady, who writes, among other things, on the history of property law, on her tenuring!
- Over at Minnesota Law's Riesenfeld Rare Books Blog: Ryan Greenwood on early American classics.
- Quite a line-up for the Legacies of the Constitution at Iona College on September 16.
- New online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: A “Practically American” Canadian Woman Confronts a United States Citizen-Only Hiring Law: Katharine Short and the California Alien Teachers Controversy of 1915, by Brendan A. Shanahan.
- The NEH summer institute, "Law and Culture in Medieval England" was hosted virtually by Western Michigan University over the summer. You can check out the schedule and readings listed here.
- Nicholas Bagley and Gary Lawson debate administrative law before the Notre Dame Student Chapter of the Federalist Society. (You might want to skip the first 9 minutes to avoid the tiresome pugilist metaphors.)
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Iowa), "Before Roe v. Wade, U.S. residents sought safer abortions in Mexico"; Emily DiVito and Suzanne Kahn (both of the Roosevelt Institute), "The filibuster has long hurt American workers too"; Susan Nagel (independent), "A conflict among the Founders is still shaping infrastructure debates in 2021"; and more.
- In the Atlantic, Mary Ziegler (Florida State University), "The Justices Are Telling Us What They Think About Roe v. Wade." Ziegler published related pieces on SCOTUSblog ("Supreme indifference: What the Texas case signals about the court’s treatment of abortion") and in the Boston Globe (What happens next in Texas?") (with Rebecca
- the Texas abortion ban: "what the law means and what’s next for Texas and the nation.
