- Bianca Premo, Florida International University, discusses her research on the legal history of the Spanish Empire here.
- Zach Jonas, a recent graduate of Georgetown Law, discusses 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, with the Journal’s editor Timothy S. Huebner in the Supreme Court Historical Society’s YouTube series, Breaking History.
- Over at Legal History Miscellany, Daniel Gosling and Charlotte Smith, Legal Records Specialists at The National Archives, discuss the documents on display during the inaugural Legal Records Jamboree last June and “reflect on the different types of legal record held at The National Archives.” The first post is here.
- Notre Dame Law's notice of a book event for Christian Burset's Empire of Laws is here.
- On October 26, Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School, will deliver The Warren Court v. The Roberts Court, the fall 2023 Annual Distinguished Lecture at Boston University.
- Kate Morgan has sold The Walnut Tree–Women, Violence and the Law: A Hidden History to Mudlark, an imprint of HarperCollins. MudLark describes the book as “a vivid work of historical non-fiction [which] explores the legal campaigns, test cases and individual injustices of the Victorian and Edwardian eras which fundamentally re-shaped the status of women under British law" (Bookseller).
- James A. Deeken, a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and an adjunct lecturer at SMU’s Dedman School of Law, reviews A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court by A. C. Pritchard and Robert B. Thompson in the Securities Regulation Law Journal.
- A recording of that "Town Hall" on the modern American Presidency at the National Constitution Center is now available online.
- The NRA's Institute for Legislative Action has a notice of Robert J. Cottrol and Brannon P. Denning’s To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment University Press of Kansas, 2023).
- ICYMI: Mark Brown, Capital University Law School, on DJT and Section 3 (Justitia). Jeffery Tyler Syck, University of Pikeville, thinks “the time has come for the right to discover the greatness of the New Deal and to improve it” (The American Conservative).
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