- The schedule for the Stanford Center for Law and History 2022-2023 Workshop is here.
- "As [first-year law students at the University of Alberta] walk on a floor covered with blankets at the old powwow grounds of Maskêkosihk (Enoch Cree Nation) — while facilitators recount the Canadian government’s progressive seizure of Indigenous land over hundreds of years — the blankets are randomly removed.” More.
- The Museum of Durham History has honored John Hope Franklin by naming a grove in a Durham's Central park in his honor. (Duke Today).
- Charlie Savage writes on the OLC war powers memos that the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. “They open a window into how executive branch lawyers can expand White House power, allowing presidents to feel free to act in ways Congress sought to constrain” (NYT).
- Law & Society Association has issued its CFP for its next annual meeting, June 1-4, 2023, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- ICYMI: Civil rights history in Salem, Oregon (Salem Reporter). An essay on the history for the Fifteenth Amendment (History). Confronting history, Congress studies addition of lynching sites to national park system (Florida Phoenix). Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone respond to Erwin Chemerinsky on originalism (Verdict). "The Arkansas Tech University Department of History and Political
Science will host a Constitution Day observance as part of ATU’s
football pre-game tailgating activities on Saturday, Sept. 17" (ATU).
- Update: Scott Gerber on Bruen's "footnote six" (The Hill). At noon on Monday, Keith Whittington will speak on “Freedom of Thought and the Struggle to
End Slavery” at noon at Adrian College (Daily Telegram)
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