- Dylan C. Penningroth (UC Berkeley) recommends "Seven Essential Texts That Show the Human Side of Black Legal History" (Literary Hub).
- Earlier this week, Judge Amul R. Thapar of the Sixth Circuit delivered "Why Originalist Courts Need Originalist Classrooms,” the 17th Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture of the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Judge Thapar faults the "overwhelmingly anti-originalist" legal academe for teaching "widely accepted originalist methods through a distorted, uncharitable, and often inaccurate lens. This means that most students never engage with originalism in a serious way during their law school careers, much less learn how to do originalism in practice.” He proposes solutions.
- Cynthia Neville, Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will give the Annual Lecture of the Stair Society in the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Saturday 16 November 2024. Her title is “March Law as Auld Law in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Legal Traditions.”
- Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford) asks Why is the Supreme Court Obsessed with Originalism?
- Along similar lines, James Kloppenberg (Harvard) explains to readers of Commonweal "Why History Matters Now" (subtitle: "A Commonweal Catholic on the mess made by Supreme Court Catholics").
- A notice of that Penn conference on the political and legal history of voting (Daily Pennsylvanian).
- We spotted a notice for a three-year postdoc at Radboud University in the Netherlands on the project "The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts," headed by Dr Sven Meeder, who "aims to describe and contextualise the spread of
social norms as articulated in specific combinations of canons in a
bottom-up approach starting from the vast corpus of manuscript witnesses
of canonical collections in every shape and form (4th-12th centuries)" (I Am EXPAT).
- The Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Michigan will hold a Junior Scholars Conference on April 25-26, 2025, in Ann Arbor, MI. The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 5, 2025. The Center seeks submissions from pre-tenure track faculty, as well as Ph.D. and S.J.D. candidates, in law and related fields.
- From History News Network: Richard R. John (Columbia University) on "The Other Sherman’s March: How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power."
- Rebecca Brenner Graham’s essay, Frances Perkins: Breaking Glass Ceilings in the Cabinet, has recently been posted to the website of the White House Historical Association.
- "Justice O'Connor's Papers Show She Would Have Dissented in Chevron" -- so writes Tracy Thomas (University of Akron) over at the Gender and the Law blog.
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