- A recording of David Sugarman's lecture, “Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case,” which he delivered at the University of Cambridge on December 3, 2024, is now on-line.
- This March 11 event is open only to the YLS community; still, we want to note Historical Roots of the Current Catastrophe: A Conversation, with John Fabian Witt and James Q. Whitman.
- A podcast of Heather Cox Richardson in conversation with Dylan Penningroth on February 26 on the evolution of the Republican Party and what gives her hope for America (Berkeley Talks).
- Over at Regulatory Review, a symposium has been underway on How Government Built America, by Sidney A. Shapiro, Wake Forest University School of Law and Joseph P. Tomain, University of Cincinnati College of Law. It includes and exchange with Edward Balleisen: here and here.
- The Brennan Center has posted a report of the session at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on originalism and the Supreme Court. The participants were Thomas Wolf, Jane Manners, Jack Rakove, and Jennifer Tucker.
- “We should look for judges who are likely to display good judgment in their rulings," says Mark Tushnet on the Modern Law Library podcast, "and we shouldn’t care whether they have a good theory about how to interpret the Constitution as a whole—and maybe we should worry a bit if they think they have such a theory." He also his experience as law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall.
- The Organization of American Historians has launched an oral history project for federal employees.
- The legal historian (and University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor) Jennifer Mnookin's message on that "Dear Colleague" letter and recent executive order affecting colleges and universities. The legal historian (and Dean of Georgetown Law) William M. Treanor replies to (Interim) U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin's DEI letter.
- David W. Blight, Beth English, and James Grossman on the Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” (New Republic).
- The American Enterprise Institute has named Philip Hamburger a nonresident fellow in its Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies research division.
- The Smithsonian Magazine's notice of Martha S. Jones's The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir. The book is among Ebony's "must reads" and New York Times's Six Books We Recommend This Week.
- The Special Collections Department at the Williams & Mary Law Library has posted a digital recreation of its recent exhibit, Women in History & the Law.
- A notice of Emma Kaufman's recent article on the history of private criminal prosecution (NYU Law).
- An AP story has put Justin Simard's Citing Slavery Project back in the news.
- Jedidiah Kroncke reviews Allison Powers's Arbitrating Empire (Jotwell).
- The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History, by Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls, has been reviewed in the English Historical Review.
- ICYMI, Birthright Citizenship Edition: Kate Masur on the Strict Scrutiny podcast. Eric Segall and Anthony Michel Kreis on Dorf on Law. Gerard N. Magliocca on Balkinization.
- ICYMI: Researchers uncover stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery (Guardian). The Long History of Executive Excess (Governing).
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