- Gwen Seabourne and Joanna McCunn, the organizers of the 26th British Legal History Conference, which will be held in July 2024 at the University of Bristol Law School and the Centre for Law and History Research, discuss their preparations here.
- On September 28, the U.S. Law and Race Initiative at the University of Nebraska will host a webinar featuring Ned Blackhawk (Yale) and Maggie Blackhawk (NYU). Ned Blackhawk will discuss The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, which was published recently by Yale University Press.
Duke University and North Carolina Central University will host a symposium October 24-25 on John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University and co-editor of the current edition of the book, will deliver the keynote address.
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- In Episode 4 of the Max Planck Lawcast, Christopher Murphy talks with Alicia Haripershad about her preliminary findings on the role of missionaries as legal actors in the British colonies of South Africa and Zambia. In Episode 3, he discusses the regulation of poverty in England and Wales in the early seventeenth century with Victoria Hooton, MPI-Frankfurt.
- Scott Douglas Gerber, Ohio Northern University, discusses his forthcoming book, Law and Religion in Colonial America: The Dissenting Colonies (Cambridge University Press, September 2023) over at Current.
- Over at the New Books Network, Kalyani Ramnath discusses her book Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962, with Kelvin Ng and Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi.
- Also at New Books Network: Tomiko Brown Nagin discusses Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.
- Although the announcement leaves us uncertain as to whether the event is open to the public, NYU will host a discussion of The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom (SUNY Press) with author Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt, Judicial Fellow, NYU School of Law, Chief Judge Rowan D. Wilson of the New York Court of Appeals, and Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Dean Troy McKenzie, Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law at NYU Law, will provide welcome remarks. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, from 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, at NYU Law, 40 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012. H/T: RD.
- The National Historical Publications & Records Commission offers various grants for projects involving public engagement with historical records. Follow the link for more information and to read about previous grantees.
- ICYMI: The first and only Texan on the U.S. Supreme Court (Weatherford Democrat). Mark Joseph Stern on The Volunteer Moms Poring Over Archives to Prove Clarence Thomas Wrong (Slate). The hosts of Strict Scrutiny recently spoke with Ari Berman about "the rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act." David Beito on that 14th Amendment, Section 3 Argument and the Debs precedent (The Hill).
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