- On the Amicus podcast: Who Gets Left Out of Originalism? with Mark Joseph Stern, Maggie Blackhawk, and Greg Ablavksy. A machine-generated, unedited transcript is here.
- Carl Wilén, Lund University, will deliver The Haitian Revolution and the Concept of the Legal Form: Capitalism, Slavery and the Universality Paradigm in the Distinguished Speaker series of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo Law School on October 3 from 12:30 to 2p.m with a noon reception. Zoom registration here.
- The Georgia Historical Society has announced its program for the 250 anniversary of the founding, Restoring Trust in American Institutions: History and the Foundations of American Democracy (Saporta Report).
- First 125 Years of AALS: a "coffee table book" on the Association of American Law Schools (ABA Journal).
- A review of Jere Nash's Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877 (Clarion Ledger).
- Adam Cox, NYU Law, "contests the origins of 'immigration exceptionalism,' the doctrine holding that the political branches of government exercise extraordinary discretion over immigration policy, subject only to limited oversight from the courts" (Regulatory Review).
- In United States ex rel Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, LLC, James Pfander, Diego Zambrano, and Jared Lucky submitted an amicus brief “to correct the district court’s misstatement of the historical record and mischaracterization of their work" on qui tam proceedings at the Founding (JD Supra).
- "The American Constitution Society’s Chicago Lawyer Chapter has named Geoffrey R. Stone, '71, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, as the inaugural recipient of the Geoffrey R. Stone Award, established in his honor" (Chicago Law).
- Leah Litman speaks with Richard Primus about his book, The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power (Strict Scrutiny).
- Balkinization Symposiums--A Continuing List
- ICYMI: Jamelle Bouie asks, What if Dred Scott Had Been Decided Correctly? (NYT). LHB Founder Mary Dudziak on the Trump Administration's takeover of the DC National Guard and police (CSM).
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