- Balkinization has been running a symposium on Christian G. Fritz's Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Contributors so far include Grace Mallon, David S. Schwartz, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Edward Purcell, Alison LaCroix, and Sandy Levinson.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Allison Brownell Tirres (DePaul University College of Law), "It doesn’t make sense to bar authorized immigrants from certain jobs"; Angus McLeod (University of Pennsylvania), "The Supreme Court stopped the latest assault on Native American sovereignty"; and more.
- Word from George Burton Adams, via Samuel Bray, Notre Dame Law (Volokh Conspiracy).
- Legal historians continue to garner teaching awards! Congratulations to Greg Ablavsky (Stanford Law School) on being selected by the SLS graduating class for the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching.
- Ablavsky also made the (online) pages of Slate this week: "Clarence Thomas Went After My Work. His Criticisms Reveal a Disturbing Fact About Originalism."
- The recording of the Supreme Court Historical Society’s commemoration of Juneteenth, a “conversation on the lynching of Ed Johnson in 1906 and United States v. Shipp with Judge Curtis Collier and the Society’s Executive Director, Jim Duff,” is now on YouTube.
- Daniel K. Williams reviews Mary Ziegler’s Roe: The History of a National Obsession (Yale University Press, 2023) and also appreciates her role as a public intellectual (Current). A good illustration of his point: Professor Ziegler's June 21 interview in WaPo's "Explaining America" series. The YouTube recording is here and a transcription is here. Another illustration is her essay, Should Constitutional Rights Reflect Popular Opinion? Interpreting Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, in Modern American History.
- The historians and law professors amicus curiae brief in CFPB v. Cmty. Fin. Servs. Ass’n Am., Ltd., No. 22-448 (U.S. May 15, 2023) is here. Its authors are Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown University Law Center; Brian Balogh, University of Virginia; Aziz Z. Huq, University of Chicago Law School; Richard R. John, Columbia University; Gautham Rao, American University; and Noah A. Rosenblum, New York University School of Law. Check back on LHB for links to two articles relating to this case on Monday.
- New online in the AJLH: The best answer? Justice Nelson’s concurrence in Dred Scott v. Sandford, by William B Meyer, Colgate University.
- ICYMI: Noah Ramage on Haaland v. Brackeen (AHA Perspectives).
