- "The [European Research Council]-funded research project Agency in Law (LEGACY) invites applications for the position of a postdoctoral researcher in legal and/or intellectual history for a three-year fixed term period, starting in September 2024 by the latest" (ESCLH).
- Thomas J. McSweeney has reviewed Lorren Eldridge's Law and the Medieval Village Community: Reinvigorating Historical Jurisprudence (JOTWELL).
- We noted Daniel Friedman's paper on the Rockefeller Foundation and the Model Penal Code. Here is a blog post on the article on MCLR+ with links to documents at the Rockefeller Archive Center.
- Colin Gordon, University of Iowa, will discuss his forthcoming book, Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality, at noon Monday, November 6, at the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall at Washington University St. Louis.
- "Ned Blackhawk and Brenda Child join for a conversation on Blackhawk’s national bestseller, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History--a sweeping retelling of American history"--at the National Constitution Center (NCC).
- Gerard Magliocca testified on whether "the 14th Amendment’s 'insurrectionist ban' can be
used to prevent former President Donald Trump from appearing on Colorado’s presidential election ballots" (C-SPAN; Colorado Newsline).
- Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School, discusses her participation on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
- The Irish Legal History Society interviews the winners of its undergraduate and postgraduate essay prizes, Maitiú Breathnach and Emma Quinn.
- From "Made by History" (now affiliated with TIME): Ansley Quiros (University of North Alabama) on "The Forgotten School Integration Story that Challenges What We Think We Know."
- What the Black Intellectual Tradition Can Teach Us About Democracy, with Jamelle Bouie and Melvin Rogers at the National Constitution Center, Tuesday, November 14, at 7:00 pm. Register.
- The University of Kansas's press release on that article by Alex Platt on Baldwin Bane and the origins of the disclosure regime in federal securities law.
- More on that posthumous admission of Edward Garrison Draper to the Maryland State Bar (JDJournal).
- From In Custodia Legis: "Witch Trials and the Haunting of Jean Bodin."
- Courtesy of Roanoke College, here is a shot of the set of Todd Peppers's play, "Holmes," performed on October 30, at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, with help from the Supreme Court Historical Society.
- Telegraph Torts: The Lost Lineage of the Public Service Corporation, by Evelyn Atkinson, Tulane Law, is now out in the Michigan Law Review.
- The Georgetown Law Library kvells over its oldest manuscript, the “Hempstead and Great Sampford Land Grant” of 1280.
- The November catalogue from Lawbook Exchange is here.
- ICYMI: Mapping homicides in medieval England (NYT). Edinburgh "mum" and Ph.D. candidate in legal history parlays knowledge of Salem Witchcraft Trials into a spot on a BBC quiz show (edinburghlive). Kansas City’s Black Archives preserves police killing documents so people will know “the real story” (KCUR). That litigation over the leadership of the Texas State Historical Association--and Texas history (AHA Perspectives, pp. 8-10).
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