- Congratulations to Dylan C. Penningroth as co-winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award for Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023). He shares the prize with my Georgetown Law colleague Stephen Vladeck for The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic (Basic Books, 2023). DRE
- That National Constitution Center session, The Life and Constitutional Legacy of Gouverneur Morris, with Melanie Randolph Miller, Dennis Rasmussen, William Treanor, and Jeffrey Rosen, is now up on YouTube.
- Paul Finkelman will deliver John McLean: Southern Ohio’s Homegrown Anti-Slavery Justice, as the 2025 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Lecture, at 12:15 pm, Friday, January 17, 2025, in Room 160 at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
- The National Historical Publications and Records Commission awarded the University of Cincinnati's Archives and Rare Books Library a grant to complete the processing of the records of the Cincinnati Branch of the NAACP related to the Bronson v. Cincinnati Board of Education (1974) (H-Law).
- Thomas Olechowski, University of Vienna, will lecture on Founding Constitutional Father in Exile: Hans Kelsen in the United States on Thursday, January 23, 2025, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific), in the William J. Perry Conference Room, Encina Hall, Second Floor, Stanford University.
- Allen Boyer reviews Joshua C. Tate's Power and Justice in Medieval England and Lorren Eldridge's Law and the Medieval Village Community in The Docket.
- Glenn Fine, the author of Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government, discussed the history of inspectors general with Jack Goldsmith on Lawfare.
- Update: The University of Sheffield's notice of the Old Bailey Online's receipt of the 2024 Mary Dudziak Legal History Prize by the American Society for Legal History.
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