- UC Law SF, so-renamed after dropping the name of its founder, Serranus Hastings, who unleashed a massacre of California's Native Americans, announced that Benjamin Madley, a UCLA history professor and the author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (Yale University Press, 2017), will be a visiting member of its faculty this year and, among other things, "work with the Indigenous Law Center on a California legal history project."
- "Surviving members of the Little Rock Nine, a group of students who faced extreme harassment and threats of violence for integrating Little Rock Central High School in 1957, have spoken out against Arkansas education officials who decided last week not to recognize an Advanced Placement (AP) course on Black history" (Truthout). Governor Sarah Sanders met with "members of the Arkansas Legislature, including leadership of the Legislative Black Caucus," to discuss the controversy (TB&P).
- The University of Arkansas has noted the retirement of the constitutional historian Mark Kellenbeck after thirty-five years as a member of the faculty of its law school. In May 2012, he delivered "A Prudent Regard to Our Own Good? The Commerce Clause, in Nation and States,” at the U.S. Supreme Court as part of the Leon Silverman Lecture Series of the Supreme Court Historical Society (U Ark News).
- The Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law "invites entry-level and lateral applicants for a full-time, tenured or
tenure-track faculty position in the field of race and law." View the ad here.
- The Federal Judicial Center has posted a "user guide' to its website on the history of the federal judiciary.
- Matthew Waxman, Columbia Law School, on Daniel Webster and the Guano Islands near-war (Lawfare).
- George W. Martin has died. In addition to Madam Secretary, a biography of Frances Perkins, he published two significant works of legal history: Causes and Conflicts: The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and CCB, a biography of the New York City lawyer Charles C. Burlingham, for which he received the Erwin D. Griswold Prize by the Supreme Court Historical Society (NY City Bar). H/t: JQB.
- Just out, open access, from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Beyond “Death Do Us Part”: Spousal Intestate Succession in Nineteenth-Century Hispanic America, by Carmen Diana Deere.
- A notice of this summer’s projects by undergraduates in the Digital Legal Research Lab under the mentorship of Katrina Jagodinsky and William Thomas at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
- At noon on November 3, in the Claire Priest, Yale Law School, is to speak on “From Invasion to Formalization: The Peruvian Origins of the Property Titling Movement” at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law. (Yesterday, Samantha Barbas present her book, Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan.) More.
- The Supreme Court Historical Society announces the world premiere of “Holmes” on October 30, 2023, at Arena Stage, Washington, DC. “Veteran actor Kevin Reese will bring the Justice from Beacon Hill to life, showcasing his humor and wisdom." One night only.
- In person and streamed on line: Texas Gulf Sulphur at 55, Friday, September 29, 2023, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. Sponsored by the SEC Historical Society and Quinnipiac School of Law.
- ICYMI: Ada Sipuel paves the way (El Dorado News-Times). John Randolph's enslaved people (Knox Pages).
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