In the latest Legal History Podcast, host Siobhan Barco talks with Professor Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell about their June 2022 Law and History Review article “Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industrial English Case Law on Finance."
- From In Custodia Legis: a post on "Mercy Otis Warren: The Secret Muse of the Bill of Rights."
- The Fall/Winter 2022 issue of Historical Review, a publication of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society, is available here. It includes the “ask the archivist” column: “Why Are There So Many British Common Books Law in the Library's Collection?”
- The American Historical Association announces a late-breaking session at its upcoming annual meeting: Originalism, the Supreme Court, Gun Laws, and History. Previously announced: Race and the Supreme Court: A Discussion, chaired by Mary Frances Berry.
- “Less than a week before the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Cynthia Nixon sits down with author and historian Felicia Kornbluh to discuss A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life” at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on January 17. More.
- David Armitage, “In Defense of Presentism,” a chapter in History and Human Flourishing, ed. Darrin M. McMahon (Oxford University Press).
- ICYMI: The 1,800 congressmen who owned enslaved Black people (WaPo). David W. Blight on Dred Scott and the inevitability of the Civil War (NYT Magazine). Excerpts from Judge Robert L. Wilkins’s speech during the installation of his official portrait at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2014, in which Judge Wilkins reflects on his family history (Slate). Jamelle Bouie on the continuing relevance of “Thomas Skidmore’s 1829 treatise The Rights of Man to Property” (NYT).
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