- Over at JOTWELL, Josh Gupta-Kagan has posted an admiring review of Laura Briggs, Haaland v. Brackeen and Mancari: On History, Taking Children, and the Right-Wing Assault on Indigenous Sovereignty, 56 Conn. L. Rev. 1121 (2024).
- In a recent episode of Strict Scrutiny, Kate Shaw and Leah Litman speak with Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford University) "about what originalists get wrong
about history and how the founders thought about the law."
- Another report of that “wide-ranging discussion” at Stanford Law between Jonathan Gienapp and Michael McConnell “on how history, law, and politics intersect in constitutional interpretation” (SLS).
- Is it surprising that, in these times, so many of the new leaders of the Organization of American Historians are scholars of legal and constitutional history? Congratulations to Annette Gordon-Reed, President; Marc Stein, President Elect; and Donna Clare Schuele, a new member of the Executive Board. Margot Canaday is a continuing member of the Executive Board.
- Melissa Murray, NYU Law, will discuss History and the Courts with Christen Hammock Jones, doctoral student in American legal history at University of Pennsylvania; Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus, professor at Columbia Law, and Noah Rosenblum, NYU Law, at Brooklyn College on April 2 from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm. Anna Law, Brooklyn College, will moderate.
- The recording of that terrific National Constitution Center town hall on Reconstruction and the Constitution: A Historical Perspective is now available online.
- John Q. Barrett on FDR's plans to resist a negative decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in the Gold Clause Cases (Jackson List).
- Julie Novkov reviews Anthony Michael Kreis’s Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development (S-USIH).
- Talbot Publishing has published an edition of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Model of Certainty or Demonstrations in Law Expounded in the Doctrine of Conditions (1669), “a unique, unprecedented collection of Roman and canon law rules regarding the application of conditions in contract, inheritance and marriage law. “
- ICYMI: Jack Goldsmith on Departmentalism and DJT (Executive Functions). Scott Bomboy on the History of the Constitution and Tariffs (NCC).
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