- Stephen Klugewicz and Lenore Ealy have posted History on Proper Principles: The Legacy of Forrest McDonald (The Imaginative Conservative).
- Stanford Law School's profile of Jud Campbell, who recently joined its faculty (Stanford Lawyer).
- Christine Chabot, Marquette University Law School, has posted the syllabus for her very interesting course, Litigating the Lessons of History.
- Over at the LPE Blog, this post on local procurement includes some interesting legal history. Scott Cummings (UCLA Law) and Madeline Janis (Jobs to Move America) discuss "a little-known federal rule requiring that all contracts using federal grant funds be awarded through a 'competitive bidding' process." This process, they argue, "privileges low price over all other criteria—effectively preempting local governments from using their procurement authority to sponsor public works projects meeting pressing social needs."
- Over at Lawfare, Michael Ramsey and Matthew Waxman have a post on the history of constitutional debates and practice of delegating Congressional war power to the President.
- "The Irish Legal History Society has invited under-graduate and
post-graduate students to submit entries for this year’s student-essay
competition by 31 May 2024" (Law Society Gazette).
- UC Law San Francisco offers its students a certificate in research into California's Legislative History.
- "The Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History will support one to three annual fellowships [in support of] research to elevate women’s history using the records held by the National Archives." More.
- Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan to discuss "The Politics of History and Records" at Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Wednesday, January 31, 2;00 to 3:30 EST. Register here.
- This Week in Section 3: Should President Trump Be Allowed on the 2024 Ballot?–a National Constitution Center podcast with Josh Blackman and Gerard Magliocca, moderated by Jeffrey Rosen. Mark Graber disputes the significance of the latest discovery of Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman related to whether the President is an Office of the United States for purposes of Section 3 of the fourteenth Amendment (Balkinization).
- ICYMI: The failed attempt to rename Brown v. Board of Education (Law&Crime).
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