- Video is available of the most recent Peking University School of Transnational Law Law and Humanities Series seminar: Dmitry Poldnikov (MGIMO University and Higher School of Economics discussed “Comparison of the World’s Legal Traditions on the Basis of the Role of Law.”
- Over at the blog of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, a forum will appear in seven installments over the next several weeks on the history and legacy of Anthony Comstock. It will also appear in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as “The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws.”
- The University of Chicago Law School's notice of The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms by faculty member Alison LaCroix.
- The Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań announces that its law faculty member Piotr Alexandrowicz has received a European Research Council Starting Grant to study legal marginalia–or, in the words of the grant, “Petrification of ius commune through printed paratexts.” He says, “By studying creative approaches to printed paratexts, we may better understand the extent to which they served in the application of the law, whether they were helpful in legal education, whether they served to consolidate leading interpretations of normative texts.”
- The shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize has been announced. It includes They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence, by Lauren Benton; Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, by Andrew C. McKevitt; and Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, by Dylan C. Penningroth.
- “The latest University of Nebraska–Lincoln digital humanities project, ‘Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West,’ is now online and invites users to explore how marginalized communities navigated the courts to seek justice.” (Nebraska Today).
- The University of Arkansas School of Law welcomes Benjamin Brady to its faculty. In addition to serving as counsel for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office and working in law firms in New York City and Washington, D.C., and in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Professor Brady is the holder of a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia, where his dissertation was Regulating the World: American Law and International Business (2016).
- The FDR Library has posted the video of a book event Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project with Sara Rutkowski.
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