- On C-SPAN, Jeffrey Rosen, National Constitution Center, discusses Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s The Common Law (1881), which the Library of Congress identified as one of the Books That Shaped America. Library of Congress historian Ryan Reft provides a tour of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at LC and a view of Holmes's "black book." A caller--self-described as a "mechanic," who came to Holmes by reading Louis Menand's Metaphysical Club--aptly asks whether the justice could fairly be described as result-oriented and whether Buck v. Bell was his worst decision. Rosen also previews his forthcoming book, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America (YouTube).
- From In Custodia Legis: "A history of blasphemy laws in the United States"; "Clara Barton and the Geneva Convention."
- The U.S. Intellectual History Blog has published a roundtable on Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed (St Martins, 2022), by Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern Law). Here's a link to the final post, which references earlier contributions. (h/t Balkinization)
- For the Brennan Center, Gautham Rao, Richard John, and Jane Manners have filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce on the history of judicial deference to administrative agencies.
- A special episode of the podcast All Things Judicial celebrated North Carolina Constitution Day with “excerpts of a discussion between Chief Justice Paul Newby and former University of North Carolina School of Law Professor John Orth on the history of the North Carolina Constitution” (NC Judicial Branch).
- Over at Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians: "Recovering Histories of Gendered State Violence," by Sonia Hernández (Texas A&M University).
- Located at the University at Buffalo School of Law, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy "plans to award post-doctoral and senior or mid-career fellowships to scholars pursuing important topics in law, legal institutions, and social policy. " More.
- New online and open-access in the AJLH: The Abolition of the Right to Trial by Jury in Civil Cases in England, by Charles S. Bullock.
- On the Stanford Legal podcast, Richard Thompson Ford and Pamela Karlan discuss Ford's book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (SLS Blogs)
- David Armitage on J.G.A. Pocock (Folgerpedia).
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