- Christian R. Burset discusses his book, An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy in a New Books Network podcast. Taisu Zhang reviews Professor Burset's article, "Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study," on Jotwell.
- On April 5, 2024, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts for the symposium Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, including the historians Sam Lebovic, Sarah Milov, David Rabban, and Ellen Schrecker.
- At Balkinization, Tom Ginsburg on "Ida B. Wells: A Plea for Law and Society Canonization."
- Colorado Law has published a profile of the legal historian Jonathon Booth (Colorado Law).
- The editors of European Journal of International Law have published Looking at Portraits by late Karen Kopp, holder of the Cecil A. Wright Chair at the University of Toronto. Professor Kopp died before she completed a different Foreword for EJIL, and the editors have published this essay instead, which appeared in a collection edited by Immi Tallgren, Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? (2023).
- The result of the latest election of the Organization of American Historians is in. Congratulations to President-Elect Annette Gordon-Reed and Vice President Marc Stein.
- Sara Mayeux,Vanderbilt University, appeared in the NPR podcast series Throughline on The Right to An Attorney.
- Ray Brescia, Albany Law School, discusses his new book, Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession, on the ABA Journal’s Modern Law Library podcast.
- Women’s Rights & Citizenship: A History of Women Jurors, by Helen Allen Nerska (New York Almanack).
- “The latest episode of the A Minute In New York History podcast tells the story of the 1839 La Amistad Rebellion” with the help of Marcus Rediker (New York Almanack).
- From the Law & Political Economy Blog: Etienne C. Toussaint, "Abolitionism as a Question of Citizenship."
- Paola Zichi, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Warwick Law School, present on feminism and “the so-called ‘historical turn’ in international law” in the Law and Methods Seminar at SciencesPo Law School last Thursday. More.
- ICYMI: Black family history and Civil War pension records (NYT). "Tradition" is "too amorphous and manipulable a criterion” for constitutional adjudication, a federal judge argues (NYT). John A. Lupton, Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission, on Myra Bradwell (Illinois Courts).
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