- Kellen Funk, Columbia Law School, presents in the the Berkeley Legal History Workshop on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, from 3:35 pm - 5:25 pm, on "Bail at the Founding." His abstract and a Zoom link for those wishing to attend virtually are here.
- In conversation with Martha Minow, Randall Kennedy recently discussed his book, Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, & Culture. Among other things, the book provides “a fresh perspective on historical topics such as the Nat Turner slave rebellion and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1854" (Harvard Law Today).
- The Supreme Court Historical Society is hosting two upcoming events. The second, at Noon EST on April 4, is The Legal Career of Future Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the 1970s. The participants are the plaintiff and her lawyer in Frontiero v. Richardson (1973), as well as Philippa Strum, Amanda Tyler, and the plaintiff in Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld (1975), who was represented by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- The second, a virtual lecture and conversation with Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School, draws upon her forthcoming book, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms and will take place at Noon (EST) on May 29.
- Columbia University's "Incite" project reimagines oral hist with its Oral History of the Obama Presidency, undertaken in partnership with the Obama Foundation. "The result of this collaboration is a comprehensive, enduring record of the decisions, actions and impacts of this historic presidency."
- Thank you, Kurt X. Metzmeier, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, for making the "case for the historical importance of early state administrative codes and urg[ing] that law libraries preserve them for future researchers of state administrative law and policy."
- Kevin Frazier, St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law, “Rediscovering and Realizing the Anti-Power-Concentrating Principle” (Notice & Comment).
- ICYMI: Justice Sotomayer is "annoyed" by the role of history in the Supreme Court's constitutional decisions (Law 360). Simon Lazarus on liberal originalism (New Republic). The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion by Mary Ziegler (Politico).
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