- The count-down is on to the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History (Oct. 26-28 in Philadelphia)! Note that if you missed the pre-registration deadline, you will be able to register on-site.
- Congratulations to Kim Nielsen (University of Toledo) on winning the William Best Hesseltine Award for Best Wisconsin Magazine of History Article of the Year for 2022. Her winning article is “Ott v. Ott: Family Violence, Divorce, and Women’s Agency in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 106/2 (Winter 2022). (h/t H-Net).
- Congratulations to Zach Jonas, a recent graduate of Georgetown Law, for winning the 2023 Hughes-Gossett Award for Students of the Supreme Court Historical Society for his article “FDR’s Court-packing and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” published in the July 2023 issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History and discussed here.
- From Balkinization: Bruce Ackerman (Yale Law School) on "The Original Understanding of the Sixteenth Amendment."The post pertains to the Moore v. United States case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- UC Santa Barbara’s notice of Giuliana Perrone’s Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023) is here.
- The “second-annual flagship conference," Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society, of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University took place October 13-14. Historians, museum curators, legal scholars, journalists, filmmakers, and other experts attended.
- The National Constitution Center takes you on a tour of its exhibit on the Civil War and Reconstruction, via YouTube.
- Peter Grajzl will deliver An Economist’s Walk Through English Legal and Cultural History, his inaugural lecture as the John F. Hendon Professorship at Washington and Lee University’s Ernest Williams II School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, on Thursday, Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. in W&L’s Northen Auditorium.
- A notice of Saul Cornell’s research in advance of the oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi (Fordham News).
- The Supreme Court Historical Society has just added a new resource to our civics website, which is designed to provide educators and students with resources about the Supreme Court, written at a secondary level, that are easy to incorporate into existing lessons. It is a case summary for Barron v. Baltimore.
- A Section 3 Conference. “On October 30, the University of Minnesota Law School, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the American Constitution Society, and the Federalist Society, will hold a conference bringing together legal and policy experts to discuss the ongoing lawsuits to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot.” Presenters include Josh Blackman, Mark Graber, Kurt Lash, and Eric Segall, q.v. this. For the livestream option for virtual attendees, this.
- ICYMI: Legal Historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Sherrilyn Ifill discussed the immediate aftermath of the Students for Fair Admissions’ suit against Harvard (Harvard Crimson). Joe Jackson, Plaintiff, vs. Chicago American League Baseball Club, Defendant: Never-Before-Seen Trial Transcript (ABAJ). David Adler on Brandeis’s opinion in Whitney v. California (Laramie Boomerang). George Will takes up the Pacific Legal Foundation's antiregulatory campaign to reverse Slaughter-House on the privileges and immunities clause (WaPo). Andrew Porwancher, Arizona State University, notes that Jews had to demand equality in revolutionary America (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Chance Bonar, Tufts University, on ancient slavery (Akron Legal News). Scott Douglas Gerber on Georgia’s anti-slavery origins (Albany Herald).
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