Saturday, July 8, 2023

Weekend Roundup

  • Over at Balkinization, the symposium on Christian Fritz's Monitoring American Federalism has concluded. A round-up of all the posts is available here
  • There a new National Constitution Center podcast: “In a special Independence Day episode, scholars Akhil Amar of Yale Law School and Peter Onuf of the University of Virginia join host Jeffrey Rosen for a discussion on the historical legacy of founding father Thomas Jefferson.”
  • The Lillian Goldman Law Library at the Yale Law School has announced the "Drew Days III Archive in collaboration with LLMC Digital. This resource contains speeches, remarks, and interviews by Days."
  • The July 2023 issue of the Newsletter of the Historical Society of the DC Circuit is available here
  • Congratulations to Naomi Jewel Mezey, Georgetown Law, upon her receipt of 2023 James Boyd White Award from the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities at the annual conference in Toronto, Canada on June 22.  The award recognizes "scholarly originality and excellence and commitment to the field of law, culture, and the humanities.”
  • ICYMI:  Penn Carey Law announces the start of Sophia Z. Lee's deanship.  Martha S. Jones on “Why Republicans Keep Calling for the End of Birthright Citizenship” (The Atlantic).  Gregory Ablavsky on the Brackeen Indian Child Welfare Act Decision (SLS Blog).
  • Was nun, constitutional historian?  A widely read thread by Rachel Sheldon, Penn State, prompted by the use of history in recent Supreme Court decisions.

Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.