- Lincoln Caplan interviews Tomiko Brown-Nagin on the civil-rights movement in Harvard Magazine. Caplan also reviews The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy, by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath in Harvard Magazine.
- Notre Dame's Kresge Law Library at Notre dame has announced its acquisition of fourteen “ rare English legal documents from the 15th to 18th centuries... [including] final concords; indentures, . . . common recoveries, to evade the strictures of entailment; and bonds." More.
- A new podcast, The Age of Consent, “explores the history of sexual consent and asks whether understanding that history can help tackle present-day problems in securing convictions for sexual offences.... The first episode, Consent Through The Ages, featuring Dr Laura Lammasniemi and Professor Vanessa Munro, also of Warwick Law School, . . . discusses the Victorian scandal of ‘The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon,’ a series of articles in Pall Mall magazine exposing child trafficking in the late 19th century. Although it ended with the magazine’s editor, W T Stead, in prison, the reports came to be regarded as instrumental in persuading Parliament to raise the age of consent from 13 to 16 for girls. More.
- Christian Pinnen’s Complexion of Empire in Natchez, Race and Slavery in the Mississippi Borderlands, published by the University of Georgia Press, has won the Mississippi Historical Society’s award for the best Mississippi history book published in 2021. (Natchez Democrat).
- "When renowned documentary film producer and historian Malinda Maynor
Lowery was named the Cahoon Family Professor in History [at Emory University] this summer, she
decided to revamp her survey course 'Legal History of Native Peoples' as soon as she heard that students in Emory College of Arts and Sciences
arrive ready to dig into research and connect dots across disciplines." More.
- ICYMI: The first American vaccine mandate (WaPo). The Commission on the Supreme Court’s findings may end up helping to set reform in motion, rather than stopping it in its tracks, say Ryan D. Doerfler and Samuel Moyn (The Atlantic).
