- Kathleen M. Brown’s Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition is the topic of the first episode of a new podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Today).
- New on Talking Legal History, the podcast hosted by Siobhan M. M. Barco: Kate Masur, Northwestern University, discusses her Reid-prize-wining book, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction.
- Grace Mallon on federalism in the early American republic on the podcast of the University of Cambridge American History Seminar.
- Historians appear prominently in the Supreme Court's decision in Haaland v. Brackeen. We spotted the Brief for American Historical Association et al. as Amici Curiae cited on page 4 (h/t Gautham Rao, Maggie Blackhawk). Other historians are cited throughout the various opinions.
- Kaius Tuori on pacta sunt servanda and the role of tradition and history in the making and legitimizing legal rules.
- Via the Volokh Conspiracy: Will Baude (University of Chicago Law School), on "Codifers' Errors and 42 U.S.C. 1983."
- From NPR: "Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S. This team aims to change that." The article cites the work of Justin Simard (Michigan State University College of Law) and the "Citing Slavery" project that he leads.
- There is still time to register for the Supreme Court Historical Society's commemoration of Juneteenth, a conversation with Judge Curtis Collier and the Society’s Executive Director, Jim Duff, on the lynching of Ed Johnson in 1906 and the resulting US Supreme Court decisions, United States v. Shipp. It will take place on June 21, 2023 at Noon (ET)
- Steven Mintz analogizes between how Morton Horwitz and William Nelson transformed the legal history of the early nineteenth century United States by treating it as a response to "the market revolution—the rise of
modern financial markets, wage labor and labor unions" and the need for a comparable legal history for recent "transformations in medicine, psychological treatment, disabilities and teaching and learning "(IHE).
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: The 1943 riot that spotlights how drag show bans can fuel violence"; Scott W. Stern, "Did Montana violate its residents’ right to a clean environment?"; Say Burgin (Targeting bail funds and Stop Cop City activists is an old tacticand more.
- Lawbook Exchange has issued a new catalogue, Scholarly Law and Legal History.
- ICYMI: Gautham Rao thinks DJT is "thumbing his nose at our system of government and at the rule of law itself" (CNN). H. W. Brands finds lessons from the prosecution of Aaron Burr (Messenger). Omotoyosi Adisa on Nigeria's first lawyer, Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams (RNN). History wars within the Texas State Historical Association (Brownwood News). More on Comstock and his laws (Smithsonian). How Lauren Davila, a Grad Student at the College of Charleston, Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. (ProPublica).
