- Rosa Goluboff and G. Edward White reflect on the enduring legacy of the Declaration of Independence (Virginia Law).
- William Novak reflects on Polan Fellowship and the Future of Democracy (Michigan Law).
- Legal historian Jennifer Mnookin is now president of Columbia University (NYT).
- For Most of Its History, the Supreme Court Didn’t Pretend to Be Apolitical: a preview of Rachel Shelden's forthcoming The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History (TPM).
- The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory is expanding its collaboration with India through the launch of the Centre for Legal History of India, in cooperation with the National Law School of India University in Bangalore and the NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad.
- The July newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit is here. It includes a report of the Society's recent panel on U.S. v. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
- A new exhibit at the Law Library of Congress: The US Code at 100.
- From the Touro Law Review: a podcast episode featuring David S. Reynolds, interviewed by Rodger Citron, on Reynolds's recent book The Two Ships That Shaped America: The Mayflower, the White Lion, and the History of the Nation.
- ICYMI: Sarah Trott on the five time the U.S. Constitution has come under threat (Conversation). Anna Snyder asks, Why do historians complicate things? (Contingent). Guénaël Mettraux on the history of war crimes (Articles of War). The history of fireworks in Ohio (CNO). An interview with Jill Lepore on the Constitution (Jacobin). Herbert Hovenkamp on the history of the rule of reason in antitrust law.
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