- From In Custodia Legis, "Orange Shirt Day and the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative."
- The Roots of Reality podcast ("[a] podcast by historian Ben Baumann that uses history from the formation
of the universe to the present, illustrating how our world came to be") has posted an episode on "Treason According to the Founding Fathers," featuring Carlton Larson.
- Mr Justice [Sir Stephen William Scott] Cobb, delivered "Justice must be seen to be done”: One Hundred Years since R v Sussex Justices [1924] as the Conkerton Memorial Lecture in Liverpool on October 10.
- Catherine Kelly and Gwen Seabourne, University of Bristol Law School, have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Historical Society.
- President Biden has appointed Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School, to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise (YLS).
- Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School, on How History Rhymes at the Supreme Court on Michael Lewis's Against the Rules podcast.
- Douglas Rooks, "a seasoned journalist with over 40 years of experience," will deliver a virtual lecture sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society on October 30th at noon, based on his new biography, Calm Command: U.S. Chief Justice Melville Fuller in His Times, 1888–1910. Register here.
- Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Guns and Society, the third annual fall conference of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University concludes today.
- Via Time's "Made by History" section: The Debate That Gave Us the Electoral College by Jane E. Calvert (John Dickinson Writings Project); What Christian Nationalism Looked Like in Practice by William Horne (University of Maryland, College Park).
- Justice Joseph Bradley and the Civil Rights Cases (New York Almanack).
- "Columbia Law School marked the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education with a discussion of the civil rights record of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose appointment of Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1953 paved the way for the decision holding school segregation unconstitutional." Jeremy Kessler discussed Eisenhower's first steps to integrate the army at the end of World War II--at the battalion but not the platoon level (Columbia Law).
- A notice of the Program in Politics, Law and Social Thought at Rice University, the brainchild of former ASLH president Harold Hyman.
- A recording of that National Constitution Center book event in which Kenneth Mack interviewed David Greenberg on his biography of John Lewis is now up on the NCC's YouTube channel.
- A notice of Akhil Reed Amar’s Constitution Day lecture at the Stanford Law School, The Constitution, Originalism, and the Presidency: Questions and Answers–and his book signing for The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.
- Brian Leiter's list of the ten most-cited legal historians on U.S. law faculties. [We note this with some caution -- recalling LHB founder Mary Dudziak's critique of such lists, echoed by Brian Tamanaha. KMT]
- Mary Ziegler (UC Davis) spoke with NPR's Fresh Air this week about "where . . . things stand with reproductive rights as we head into the election."
- My former and present colleagues Mark Tushnet and Louis Michael Seidman
have a podcast, "Supreme Betrayal: How the Supreme Court and
Constitutional Law Have Failed America." The first episode is
downloadable from Apple and Spotify. DRE.
- The Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University also has a new podcast, This Constitution. The first episode is “Above the Law? Executive Privilege and Presidential Immunity.”
- ICYMI: T.F.T. Plucknett, in 1941, on why the London School of Economics should have its own publications program. Eric Segall on Originalism and the Emperor's New Clothes (Dorf on Law).
What the history of blasphemy laws in the US can teach us today (The Conversation).
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