- The recording of that interview of Robert Post, on his Holmes Devise volume, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, by William M. Treanor is here.
- For the Stanford Legal podcast, Pam Karlan and Richard Thompson Ford interview Jonathan Gienapp on Challenging Originalism: Putting the Electoral College, Presidential Immunity, and Recent SCOTUS Decisions into Historical Context.
- On Tuesday, October 1, at 11:30 a.m., Esteban Llamosas (National University of Córdoba), will speak on Economía Política (y católica) en la enseñanza jurídica cordobesa: traducción del liberalismo en la Universidad de Córdoba (Argentina) en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, in the Legal History Colloquium of the law faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. It will take place in Seminar IV and may be viewed via Zoom. (Meeting ID: 829 1079 8716 / Access Code: 609743).
- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will hold a book launch for South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Towards a Historical Ontology of the Law, by Faisal Chaudhry, on Friday, October 04, 2024 at 12:00pm to 1:15pm in the Law School Moot Court Room. The event will be bring together historians of South Asia (Tiraana Bains, Osama Siddiqui, and Sana Haroon) and Duncan Kennedy. Danya Reda, Wayne State Law, will moderate. For Zoom access to the event, contact hfern@umassd.edu.
- Also on Friday, October 4, the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Historical Society will commemorate the career of Sandra Day O’Connor with the panel Center Court: Justice Sandra day O’Connor and the Supreme Court. It will take place in the Montpelier Room 101 in the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress from 4:30 with a panel starting at 5:00. The panelists are Neomi Rao, Julie Rose O’Sullivan, Joan Biskupic, and Theodore Olson. Kimberly Atkins Stohr will moderate. YouTube coverage is here. Register to attend here.
- The Federal Judicial Center has a new and very substantial post on the history of treaties in the federal courts.
- "Sylvia Mendez was just eight when she became part of a landmark school desegregation case that helped pave the way for the famous Brown v. Board ruling a decade later." The blog of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts tells the story of Mendez v. Westminster in a new Moments in History video.
- Grace Mallon has been appointed to the Clive Holmes Fellowship in History at Lady Margaret Hall. More.
- "The Historical Society of the New York Courts has named Allison M. Morey as its new Executive Director." More.
- "The FDR Presidential Library and Museum and the Gillespie Forum present a lecture and discussion with Jeffrey Urbin: Frances Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt: Progressives in the New Deal on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 7:00 p.m."
- "In celebration of Constitution Day and the five-year anniversary of the Library of Congress website, the Constitution Annotated online, the Library of Congress is launching “Our Constitution,” a monthly podcast series that introduces listeners to the foundational legal document of the United States and how the nation’s charter has been interpreted over time." More.
- Years ago, my then-colleagues Richard Chused and Wendy W. Williams taught a legendary seminar on Women's Legal History at Georgetown Law. I had to smile, then, when I saw that Susan Damplo, one of their students in the 1987 offering of the seminar and now a New-York-City based lawyer, just posted the paper she wrote then to SSRN. It is Federally Sponsored Childcare During World War II: An Idea Before Its Time. DRE.
- ICYMI: Rare Copy of U.S. Constitution, Found in a File Cabinet, Is Up for Auction (NYT). ABA will bring lawyers to the UK to celebrate historic 1924 visit (ABAJ). Linda Colley reviews The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom (NYRB). Cass Sunstein reviews Jonathan Gienapp's Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (WaPo). "Originalism Was Impossible," says Eric L. Muller (The Atlantic).
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