- A notice of Arnaud Fossier's research, while on a fellowship at Berkeley's Robbins Collection Research Center, on the "evolution of 'merit' in medieval canon law, from Gratian’s Decretum (circa 1140) to the Liber Sextus (1296)” (Berkeley Law).
- Sarah Wharton, Harvard Law Library, discusses here experiences this summer attending “Researching Medieval Manuscripts: From Cataloging to Cultural History” at Rare Book School at Oxford University (Amicus Libris).
- "A discussion between Carolina Law Professor Michael Gerhardt and University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash on the powers the Constitution grants the president and what they mean today," Monday, September 14, 5:30–7 p.m, UNC Law.
- The legal historian Alan Rogers, emeritus professor of history, Boston College, is dead.
- Andrew Wender Cohen discusses his book “Gangster of New York on the BBC HistoryExtra podcast.
- A press release on the research of Andrew Torrance, University of Kansas Law, on the legal history of the kiss.
- Daniel Immerwahr reviews Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan's Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (New Yorker).
- "Step back into Maine’s early legal history on Thursday, September 24, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, for a special, free dress rehearsal performance of True Crime: 1815 – The Trial of Dr. Moses Adams. The main event will be held Friday, September 25, 2026 at the Ellsworth Public Library" (Bar Harbor Story).
The Historical Society of the New York Courts, the New York City Criminal Court, Bronx County, and the Bronx County Supreme Court, Criminal Term will hold the hybrid program America 250: The Bronx Perspective on Thursday, September 24, 2026, 1:15 - 2:15 PM. It will trace “the history of Bronx County through legal landmarks from 1776 to today, addressing how the County has changed from an agrarian community to a diverse and bustling borough."
Bronx County Court House, 1933 (NYPL)
- "The Irish Legal History Society is to take part in the Dublin Festival of History hosting a panel discussion on, ‘courts, crime and hidden lives in Dublin’ on 29 September" (ILN).
- Lawbook Exchange's September 2026 list on Scholarly Law and Legal History.
- ICYMI: Richard Re on the sloughing off of originalism within the Marble Palace (SCOTUSblog). Gautham Rao takes issue with Chief Justice Roberts's biographical sketch of William Howard Taft (Philadelphia Inquirer). Jodi Kantor's article on Supreme Court justices' papers (NYT). Marcia Coyle on the Constitutional Fight to Preserve [Presidential] History (NCC).
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