- Congratulations to Norma Dawson, CBE and professor of law emerita at Queens University Belfast, for the conferral upon her of an honorary doctorate by the University of Edinburgh. Professor Dawson is a past president of the Irish Legal History Society and the author of A Modern Legal History of Treasure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), which “examines treasure law and practice from the rise of the new science of archaeology in the early Victorian period to the present day.”
- Over at Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog,Otto Vervaart has put up a very useful post on digitized archival collections on JSTOR of interest to legal historians, starting with the holdings of the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York.
- Congratulations to Nina Farnia, Albany Law School, corecipient (with Sabarish Suresh, National University of Singapore) of the Julien Mezey Dissertation Prize of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities for her dissertation, “Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law,” which Professor Farnia completed in the history department at UC Davis!
- Now out over at JOTWELL: assessments of Gregory Ablavsky and W. Tanner Allread, We the (Native) People?: How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S. Constitution, 123 Colum. L. Rev. 243 (2023) by Bethany Berger and Allison Brownell Tirres.
- Kenneth W. Mack, Harvard Law, reviews Jonathan Eig’s new biography of Martin Luther King (Guardian).
- "The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project will present a conversation and book signing with Albert M. Rosenblatt, author of The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom, at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. The event will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home and streamed live to the official FDR Library YouTube and Facebook accounts." More.
- "A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened [recently], exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama’s Mobile Bay" (AP).
- The articles from that symposium on the history of the Administrative Procedure Act are now out in the Notre Dame Law Review, as we learned from Emily Bremer here.
- Lawbook Exchange has released its July 2023 catalogue, which includes a first American edition of Isaac Espinasse's Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius (1795).
- ICYMI: Jamelle Bouie and Peter S. Canellos on John Marshall Harlan. Madame Restell and the history of abortion in America (Concord Monitor). Harvey Mansfield retires (Harvard Crimson). NARA up close and personal (NYT). Steve Fraser on the new [pro-]child labor laws (Jacobin). "Judges Confused by Supreme Court's Historical Test for Gun Laws" (Bloomberg Law). So are we.
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