- Reva Siegel, YLS, on Dobbs and the Politics of Constitutional Memory on Balkinization. Also, here.
- Stanford Law School has a report on that Celebration of Lawrence Friedman, during which “nine panelists showered tributes on the still-prolific, 92-year-old legal historian," and "Amalia Kessler, director of the Stanford Center for Law and History and an organizer of the event, spoke of “our beloved” Friedman’s 'great intellect' and 'tremendous menschlichkeit,'”
- The Harvard Law School "will collaborate with the Royall House and Slave Quarters--a museum in Medford, Massachusetts that is among the last freestanding quarters where enslaved people lived in the north--to conduct research and collaborate on educational programming" (Reuters).
- From In Custodia Legis, the blog of the Law Library of Congress: Caitlin Connelly on Chew Heong v. United States, Sarah Friedman on Hansberry v. Lee, and Rachel Star Koladis on Alchemy and The Act Against Multipliers.
- Randall Kennedy, HLS, will speak on Wednesday, February 1, at the University of Mississippi School of Law on“The Greatest Lawyer in American Legal History: Thurgood Marshall.” More.
- From the Washington Post's Made by History section: Yael Schacher on how Biden’s announced asylum transit ban undermines access to life-saving protection. Joel Zapata (Oregon State) argues that Border enforcement has been deadly by design. Felicia Kornbluh (University of Vermont) on What the next 50 years of reproductive rights activism can learn from the last 50.
- John Q. Barrett, St. Johns, discusses the new documentary “Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony,” over at the Jackson List.
- Chicago-Kent College of Law invites submissions for the Roy C. Palmer Prize on Democracy, Civil Liberties, and the Rule of Law. This $10,000 prize “honors a work of scholarship that explores threats to, or supports of, the liberal democratic constitutional order.” (H/t Legal Scholarship Blog)
- New online in the AJLH: Charitable Trusts of Cemeteries and Places of Worship in Thailand: A Historical Anomaly, by Surutchada Reekie.
- “The Labor and Working-Class History Association and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History will jointly award a $2,000 research grant for a contingent faculty scholar, independent scholar, or community college faculty member engaged in work related to working people, their lives, workplaces, communities, organizations, cultures, activism, and societal context in any period and place.” Deadline February 1.
- The Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy at the Wayne State University Law School will hold a Zoom webinar on How Courts Are Shaping Congress' Power to Investigate on February 8, 2023, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET.
- ICYMI: Is debt limit unconstitutional? Answer is yes, some argue, based on the 14th Amendment's public debt clause (ABAJ). A timeline on the history of reproductive rights (History).
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