- Jill Lepore reviews Robert Post's The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930 (New Yorker). YLS's notice of the book is here.
- Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University, on The Surprising History of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (Governing).
- Allen Levine on Samuel Leibowitz, who "earned a national reputation defending everyone from Al
Capone to the Scottsboro Boys, he represented small-time crooks like
‘Izzy the Goniff’ and used his knowledge of gefilte fish to win a
client’s acquittal" (Tablet).
- Stephen Sachs has posted the syllabus for his HLS seminar, "Originalism and Its Disconents."
- New online in the AJLH and Oxford Academic: Brave New World? Care and Custody of Children at the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in Mid-Victorian England by Penelope Russell.
- The American Historical Association has issued a CFP for its 138th annual meeting to be held in New York City, January 3–6, 2025.
- "Civic Stories: Students of the Civil Rights Movement," a student-oriented video of the National Constitution Center (YouTube).
- Grad students: there is still time to apply for the Stanford Center for Law and History Graduate Student Annual Conference Paper Prize (deadline 1/29).
- In the opinion pages of the New York Times: Maggie Blackhawk (NYU) on "How ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Presses Up Against the Limits of Empathy."
- From In Custodia Legis, the blog of the Law Librarians of Congress: "Arabella Mansfield, First Female Lawyer."
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