- The University of Illinois Chicago notes the receipt of the Bancroft Dissertation Prize by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, “a socio-legal historian of child migration,” who currently is one of UIC’s “Bridge to the Faculty” postdoctoral research associates.
- Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard University, will discuss her book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, in conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel Emeritus, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., on Monday, March 28, 2022, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM. To register and for more: here.
- Ken Leyton-Brown reviews Carolyn Strange’s The Death Penalty And Sex Murder in Canadian History (University of Toronto Press, 2020).
- Legal Historians Recorded: UVA Dean Risa Goluboff testifies in favor of the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Executive Director Ajay Mehrotra in the Season One finale of the ABF’s podcast "Whose Law Is It Anyway?"
- The Delaware Heritage Commission’s notice of the death of Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland, whose 2013 book, Delaware’s Destiny Determined by Lewes appears on the Commission's website.
- Marcus Rediker's eight tips “about the vexatious business of getting unruly words down onto the page.”
- Gerard Magliocca, Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at Indiana University McKinney School of Law, explains why he wrote Washington’s Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (Oxford University Press, 2022) (Current).
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