- Congratulations to Professor William Chester Jordan upon his receipt of the Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement awarded by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. Princeton University's notice is here.
- From In Custodia Legis: "A Short History of the First Native American Women Lawyers and Judges in the United States."
- Paul Lombardo, Georgia State University College of Law, will lecture on “Carrie Buck on Trial: A Centennial Retrospective” at Washington and Lee University on Monday, Nov. 18 at 5:30 p.m. in Hillel 101.
- Eric Muller, a leading legal historian of the Japanese-American "internment," took students in his “Lawyers in Justice and Lawyers’ Injustice” seminar at the University of North Carolina School of Law to Heart Mountain, Wyoming, over fall break. "Students spent their mornings analyzing government documents and court cases, while afternoons were dedicated to exploring the museum’s exhibits and original structures. In the restored barracks and historic root cellar, the reality of what government lawyers helped implement became tangible." More.
- Johnny Rex Buckles, University of Houston Law Center, reviews Lawrence A. Zelenak and Ajay K. Mehrotra's edition of Stanley Surrey's memoirs in the Florida Tax Review.
- Robert L. Tsai revies Aziz Rana's Constitutional Bind in The New Rambler.
- An update on digitization at the National Archives. Among the newly digitized records are those related to the killing of Hattie DeBardelaben, rescued from obscurity by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
- Jake Kobrick, Associate Historian at the Federal Judicial Center, has posted another Spotlight on Judicial History: The Codification of Federal Statutes on the Judiciary.
- The recording of that National Constitution Center session on Native Americans and the Supreme Court, with by Keith Richotte Jr., and Matthew L.M. Fletcher, is here.
- ICYMI: David E. Kyvig on Clarence Thomas's Constitution (HNN).
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