- Earlier this week, the White House announced appointments to Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. The Committee is composed of the Librarian of Congress and four additional members appointed by the President. The new appointees are Risa Lauren Goluboff, Martha S. Jones, and Trevor Morrison. UVA's notice on Dean Goluboff's appointment is here; NYU's on Dean Emeritus Morrison's is here.
- Ryan Reft, Library of Congress, has posted Gideon v. Wainwright at 60: Anthony Lewis, Clarence Gideon, and America’s Public Defenders on the blog, Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress.
- On March 23, Kevin Butterfield, director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, will discuss his book, The Making of Tocqueville’s America: Law and Association the Early United States, in support of the ongoing exhibit at the Library of Congress, Join In: Voluntary Associations in America.
- Nicole Carlson Maffei has posted Lucile Lomen (1920-1996), an essay on the first woman to serve as a clerk to a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, on the Supreme Court Historical Society website.
- “An archive belonging to attorney Linda Coffee, who filed the initial lawsuit in Rowe v. Wade, will go up for auction" (Dallas Morning News).
"Stanford University Historian Gregory Ablavsky will lecture on 'The Past, Present, and Future of Native Sovereignty in Federal Law' at 5 p.m. March 15 Shideler Hall room 152," University of Miami (Ohio).
- Queen Mary, University of London, announces its new LLM in Common Law Theory and Practice. “Unique in the landscape of legal postgraduate education, this programme combines theoretical and applied study of the common law. Whether you are you are unfamiliar with the common law or have studied in a common law jurisdiction and wish to deepen your knowledge, this programme offers a contextual and critical insight into the common law and its workings.”
- ICYMI: From the Poor Laws to the Social Security Act (History Channel). A library exhibit on the buildings that housed the University of Arkansas School for Law. A notice of Norman Silber’s oral history of Judge Guido Calabresi. (Law.com). Diane Minear, an attorney in the Spencer Fane Overland Park, Kansas, on Myra Bradwell.
- Updates: A notice of Laura M. Weinrib’s lecture,“Money, Politics, and the Constitution in the ‘Golden Age’ of Capitalism,” at an event honoring her 2021 appointment as the Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law at the Harvard Law School (Harvard Crimson). Also, we noted with interest that the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation supported this digitization project (NYT).
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