- Rebecca Nesvet, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, has published Walking Aslant: Irene Adler Visits the Inner Temple, in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 19.2 (Summer 2023). It is Professor Nesvet's reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes short story, “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891), in which Irene Adler, “identified by some scholars as a transgender figure,” visits “the exclusively cisgender male space of the Inner Temple” in what amounted to “a queer self-liberatory act, as well as a transgression of fin-de-siècle society’s mores and laws.”
- Mary Bilder, Founders Professor at Boston College Law School, is one of four finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Prize, for Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (University of Virginia Press, 2022).
- Natasha Wheatley, the author of The Life and Death of States, in conversation about the Central Europe and the transformation of modern sovereignty from empire to democracy" (Literary Hub).
- UCLA Law has issued press releases about two legal historians. Ariela Gross joins as a Distinguished Professor in a lateral hire. Alexander Arnold, “whose scholarship uses tools of intellectual and legal history to explore the relationship between law, economic theory and social facts,” joins as an assistant professor of law.
We were not aware of Reykjavik's Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat (right) until a recent visit to Iceland.
(Credit: DRE)
- Oliver Diggelmann, University of Zurich, reviews Anne Orford ‘s International Law and the Politics of History.
- Dame Helen Winkelmann, Chief Justice of New Zealand, discusses the history of Canterbury Law School in her recent address, Keep Running Up That Hill.
- Here is a quite useful compendium of online collections and archives on radicalism.
- The FDR Library "will present a conversation and book signing with Mary E. Stuckey, author of Voting Deliberatively: FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign, at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 9, 2023."
- It's "the end of an era" for "Made by History." This valuable outlet for historically informed opinion pieces will no longer be part of the Washington Post, but may continue with another publishing partner. Read more from the editors here.
- ICYMI: The Most Corrupt Judge in US History (Time). B.C. Franklin and I.H. Spears and the long fight for restitution for the Tulsa Race Massacre (NYT). How the annual Critical Race Theory Summer School of the African American Policy Forum and its co-founder Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw are dealing with book bans, the censorship of Black history, and the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decisions (Essence).
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