- Virginia Law Weekly has published a report of “Originalism 101,” a conversation between Lawrence Solum and Charles Barzun on "the origins of originalism, its variations, its merits and flaws, and its impact on judicial decision-making."
- The Harvard Crimson puts fifteen questions to former ASLH president Bruce Mann.
- Over at JOTWELL, Sara Mayeux (Vanderbilt Law) has posted an admiring review of Sean Vanatta's Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control (2024).
- Deafness in the Divorce Court, a blog post from Northumbria University, is about the 1876 divorce case involving a "deaf and dumb" couple, the husband of which engaged in physical violence.
- Isabel Taylor, Head of Archival Core Functions at the University of Hamburg Archives, has a long post up on the blog of the UK Constitutional Law Association, entitled, Not So Arcane After All: Archives and the Battle for "Ancient Freedoms" in the Stuart Permanent State of Emergency.
- Harry F. Byrd's gift to America, Constitution Day, just keeps giving. First up: Michael Waldman, President and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, will deliver The Supreme Court and American Democracy, the Constitution Day lecture in Room 101 of the Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on September 17 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm.
- On September 17, the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, cultureNOW, and the United States District Court for the District of New York will host an event in the Ceremonial Courtroom at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., with Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown Law; The Honorable Judge P. Kevin Castel, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; Seth Kaller, Historical Documents & Legacy Collections; and James von Klemperer, FAIA, President Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. RSVP here.
- The Supreme Court Historical Society's Constitution Day lecture is a virtual event: At 12:00 PM (EST) on September 17, 2024, via Zoom, Judge Jon O. Newman and Professor Marin K. Levy speak on their new book, Written and Unwritten: The Rules, Internal Procedures and Customs of the United States Courts of Appeals. You may register here. A recording will be posted to YouTube after the event.
- Securities law gets in on the act on at Case Western Law when Adam C. Pritchard and Robert B. Thompson discuss their book, A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court, on September 17 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the School of Law’s Moot Courtroom (Room A59).
- Michael
E. Woods, The Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee,
and Reeve Huston, Duke University, will discuss “The Election of 1824 and
the History of Contested Presidential Elections,” as a Constitution Day
commemoration at the Virginia Military Institute on Thursday, September
19, at 8 p.m. in Marshall Hall’s Gillis Theater (News-Gazette).
- On October 9, the Supreme Court Historical Society will hold a virtual lecture Visiting the Supreme Court Building: A Discussion with the Court’s Curator, Matthew Hofstedt, and Deputy Curator, Nikki Peronace. Before the discussion, Clare Cushman will introduce viewers to the Society’s newest publication, An Illustrated Guide to the Supreme Court.
- The Organization of American Historians is circulating the amicus brief it joined in United States v. Skrmetti. In the brief, "well-recognized scholarly historical organizations and academic scholars and historians whose many decades of study and research focus on the history of gender, sexuality, and medicine . . . aim to provide the Court with accurate historical perspective as it considers the question of whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1, prohibiting all medical treatments intended to allow 'a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex" or to treat 'purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.'” The amicus brief of William Eskridge, Jr., Steven Calabresi, Naomi Cahn, Alexander Volokh et al. is here; the "Yale philosopher’s" brief, here.
- The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History, by Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls, was the sbject of an interview in the summer 2024 issue of The Historian, Issue 162 (Summer 2024), In addition, former BBC Wales newsman Phil Parry interviewed Boyer about the Welsh aspects of the English law of treason (History Boys).
- A notice of Alison LaCroix's Interbellum Constitution in the Cook Country Record.
- Penn's Omnia magazine has published a nice write-up on Sarah Gronningsater's The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom (2024).
- Michael Hayes, a Kansas City lawyer with a Ph,D. in philosophy, reviews Aziz Rana's Constitutional Bind on Public Discourse, the blog of the John Witherspoon Institute.
- ICYMI: Queer Justice: 50 Years of Lambda Legal and LGBTQ+ Rights, a traveling exhibit debuted in Dallas at the Resource Center on September 6 (Dallas Observer). The Robert H. Jackson Center has its first program director, Elizabeth Hosier (Post-Journal). The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation recognizes the Honorable Peter Fox Cohalan for his contributions to the Historical Society of the New York Courts’ online County Legal History Project (TBR Newsmedia).
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