- The Organization of American Historians has announced a free webinar, Immigration Restriction Then and Now: Re-Examining the Impact and Legacy of the 1921 and 1924 Immigration Acts
We invite you to join us on November 10, at 7pm ET, for a webinar with the contributors from the September 2022 Journal of American History special issue on immigration. Register here.
- The 2022 Jefferson Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, was “The Status Quo Loves To Say No”: Disability Rights and the Battle Against Structures of Exclusion, a conversation of the disability rights activist Judith Heumann in conversation with LHB's Karen Tani.
- Applications for the REU Site Summer Research Program open on November 1. "Building an interactive and relational database of petitions for freedom, our lab is committed to training undergraduates in critical legal inquiry, archival research methods, data collection and processing, and in transcription and encoding techniques that allow us to demonstrate patterns and strategies in legal mobilization and legal decision making." More.
- To mark the centenary of the passage of the Irish Free State Constitution, “a theatrical reconstruction of the process that led to its drafting was held in the very room where it was agreed - the appropriately named Constitution Room in the Shelbourne Hotel” (Irish Times).
- Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule delivered a lecture, "The Original Scalia," on October 19, 2022, with comments from Lawrence Lessig and the Hon. Andrew Oldham, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Jack Goldsmith moderated.
- ICYMI: Harvard University appoints Richard Cellini to lead its "Legacy of Slavery Remembrance Program (Harvard Gazette). Michael C. Dorf on "The Injustice, Insincerity, and Destabilizing Impact of the SCOTUS Turn to History" (Verdict). Harvard Law Professor Molly Brady on the spooky side of property law (Harvard Law Today).
- Updates: A conference on Roman criminal law at University of Trento, November 17-18. Recollections of A. Leon Higginbotham ahead of the official unveiling of a mural in his honor on November 2 (Philadelphia Citizen).
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