- Now on YouTube: the National Constitution Center’s panel on “the history of the African American fight for freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods” Edda Fields-Black and James Oakes were panelists. Thomas Donnelly of the NCC moderated.
- The Union County Board of County Commissioners is hosting Gibbons v. Ogden: Its Continuing Importance 200 Years Later with Edward Hartnett, Seaton Hall, on Tuesday, March 4th from 12:30 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. "at the Courtroom of Honorable Lisa Miralles Walsh (A.J.S.C.) on the 1st Floor Tower of the Union County Courthouse, located at 2 Broad Street, Elizabeth."
- Last semester, in the course titled “Research Methods in Judicial History,” Yale students "had the opportunity to delve into the working papers of former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart ’37 LAW ’41 (Yale Daily News).
- Jake Kobrick, Associate Historian at the Federal Judicial Center, has a nice post on Eighth Amendment Prison Litigation on the FJC website.
- A symposium on Robert Post's Holmes Devise history of the Taft Court is at Balkinization. We've spotted contributions by Laura Kalman, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Brad Snyder.
- A note in the Harvard Law Review: Compulsory Voting’s American History.
- From In Custodia Legis: The History of the U.S. Bar Exam, Part I and Part II. Also: "Philadelphia’s Gilded Age Medievalist: Henry Charles Lea."
- This season in the Institute for Justice's podcast series Bound by Justice is devoted to property cases, including "a tour of the house at issue in Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon" and three pods on the history of zoning."
- Over at JOTWELL, Richard Murphy has posted an admiring review of Andrea Scoseria Katz and Noah A. Rosenblum's, Becoming the Administrator-in-Chief: Myers and the Progressive Presidency, 123 Colum. L. Rev. 2135 (2023).
- ICYMI: "Of Course Presidents Are Officers of the United States," says Mark Graber (The Atlantic). Mug commemorating real-life crime 1823 style flies to 10 times estimate (Antiques Trades Gazette). John Q. Barrett on Cardozo's quip (SSRN). How a 1924 Immigration Act Laid the Groundwork for Japanese American Incarceration: An Interview with Mae Ngai (Smithsonian).
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