- In Law & Liberty, Dennis Weiboldt (J.D., Ph.D. candidate, Notre Dame) writes about "Bob Jones's Warning." "By recalling the circumstances under which Bob Jones University v. United States reached the Court, both conservatives and progressives will find lessons about the perils that accompany the aggressive use of executive power to reform American colleges and universities."
- Rohit De and Ornit Shani have received the 2026 ICON-S Book Prize to historians for Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History (American Bazaar).
- The Docket's interview of Anna O. Law about her book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2026) Ilya Somin's Jotwell review of the book.
- An update on and review of the Constitutional History Project of the American Historical Association (AHA).
- Regnat Populus: Digitizing 190 Years of Arkansas Constitutional History opened at the Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus (KUAF).
- The Morris/Sussex Vicinage of New Jersey Courts recently opened a self-guided exhibit on more than 270 years of Morris County's legal and civic history.
- On September 10 and 11, Lafayette College will host Democracy: Past, Present, and Future, a symposium featuring plenary talks by Hélène Landemore, political science at Yale, and Akhil Reed Amar, YLS, with a series of panel discussions, including more than twenty members of the Lafayette faculty.
- The June 2026 issue of the Journal of American History has two articles of special interest to legal historians: The Empire of Military Necessity: General Orders No. 100, Atrocity, and the Law of Occupation between the Civil and Philippine Wars, by Justin F. Jackson and H. R. Haldeman, Dynastic Politics in California, and the Dismissal of University of California President Clark Kerr by Nick Fischer.
- A series of satirical paintings of legal professionals by "the contemporary artist and fabulist Cassou."
- Lawbook Exchange's July catalog of Scholarly Law & Legal History.
- ICYMI: David Blight on DJT and the Smithsonian (NYT). Michael Dorf on Historical Analogies in Second and Seventh Amendment Cases (Dorf on Law). Noah Feldman says that the Supreme Court’s originalism is dead, dead, dead (Seattle Times). Lawyers Should Spend More Time Studying Legal History (Above the Law). White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants (Forbes). A history of justices testifying before Congress (SCOTUSblog). What the American Founders Did Was a Reluctant Revolution: An Interview with Lee J Strang (Hungarian Conservative).
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