- The Irish Legal History Society will hold its annual general meeting on November 29. Following the meeting John G. Gordon will lecture on “‘Where there’s a Will there’s a Contest’: The Will of the Very Rev Frank Henry PP: From Carrickfergus to Rome” (Law Society Gazette).
- The Centre for Law and History Research (Law and History Network) at the University of Bristol will host a seminar by Graham Moore, an Eighteenth-Century Collections Researcher at The National Archives on Confederacy, treason, or robbery? Defining piracy in the seventeenth-century High Court of Admiralty.
- A notice of Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th Century England and Wales: For Wives Alone, on Section 21 of the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857, which allowed deserted women to have their feme sole status. Professor Olive Anderson died in 2015 before completing the book. Northumbria University professor academic Dr. Jennifer Aston subsequently cam across the manuscript and, with the support of Anderson's daughters, completed it.
- On November 8, David Wilkins, University of Richmond, delivered the address “Apart & Akin,” on “the shared histories and legal statuses of Native peoples and African Americans,” at Appalachian State University (The Appalachian).
- The University of Chicago's notice of Samuel Fury Childs Daly's new book, Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire.
- Yale Law School's notice of Keith E. Whittington’s The Impeachment Power (Yale).
- Kate Masur discussed her graphic history Freedom Was In Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction the Washington D.C. Region at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (YouTube).
- Carl Rice, a visiting assistant professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College, lectured on “Roman Religion and the Citizens of Empire, 200-450 CE,” at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (Pipe Dream).
- Korematsu v. United States was re-argued on its 80th anniversary in an event sponsored by the Robert H. Jackson Center at George Washington University Law School (YouTube).
- Stephen Sachs summarizes his review of Jack Balkin's Memory and Authority (Volokh Conspiracy).
- ICYMI: The 18th‑Century Origins of Recess Appointments (History). Uncovering the Legal Records of France’s Once-Largest Jewish Community--an 18th-century pinkas, in Metz (Mosaic).
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