- From the New York Times: Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) on the future of legal abortion: "With Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s retirement, we are now at the moment of reckoning."
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Mary Ziegler (Florida State University College of Law) on "The Supreme Court's Big Abortion Hypocrisy"; Brian Rosenwald (Fox Leadership Program, University of Pennsylvania) on the implications of Justice Kennedy's retirement ("The Conservative Revolution"); KC Johnson (Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center) on the same; Joseph Hower (Southwestern University) on how the Supreme Court's decision in the Janus case guts the modern labor movement; Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University, Chicago) on the political significance of the Janus dissent; Paul A. Kramer (Vanderbilt University) on family reunification as a cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy; Allyson Hobbs (Stanford University) and Ana Raquel Minian (Stanford University), both historians of race, detention, and migration, on their "firsthand look" at an immigration detention center in Texas; and much more.
- From We're History: William S. Bush (Texas A&M) and David Tanenhaus (William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV) on "Moral Panic: How We See Other People's Kids as Criminals."
- “For those of us who study the history of American immigration law and policy, Mr. Trump’s anti-immigrant demagoguery is grimly familiar.,” writes Matthew J. Lindsay, University of Baltimore Law School, in the Baltimore Sun. “The trope of immigrant “invasion,” in particular, has long been a rhetorical mainstay of campaigns to exclude or severely restrict foreign migration.”
- Maastricht University has an exhibit of legal history books this month and next. (h/t: Otto Vervaart)
- If you appreciate nice letterhead, check out "Stationary Empire: Letterhead, crests & ink stamps from across the British Empire, mostly relating to law" (by blogger MS).
- Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University, is in conversation with Lisa Crooms-Robinson, about Professor Jones’s book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC, on Sunday, July 8 at 1:00 PM.
- Tonight at 10:45 pm, C-SPAN 3 airs the discussion, held in Supreme Court chamber and co-hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, between Randy Barnett, Georgetown University, and Richard Primus, University of Michigan, on interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Judge Patricia Millett moderates and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provides an introduction (and asks about Loving.
- "The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, will deliver Chautauqua Institution’s 14th annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States, on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, at 4:00 p.m. in Chautauqua’s Hall of Philosophy." H/t: John Q. Barrett's Jackson List.
- ICYMI: Recent assessments of the Supreme Court's attempt to distinguish Korematsu from Trump v. Hawaii, include Joseph Fishkin at Balkinization and Eric Muller at the Faculty Lounge. And here's the History Channel's take. Also The Preservation Battle of Grand Central, in Smithsonian Magazine and the New York Times on Rosa Parks's arrest warrant.
