- John Q. Barrett on the Jackson List on New Month, Quiet; Full Court, Ready (August 1941): (the USSC seventy-five years ago this month).
- Via H-Law, we learn that the second installment of H-Law Podcasts, conducted by Siobhan Barco, is with former LHB Guest Blogger Samantha Barbas, SUNY Buffalo Law School, on her book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America.
- The Peter A. Allard School of Law of the University of British Columbia has posted a notice of W. Wesley Pue’s Lawyers’ Empire: Legal Professions and Cultural Authority (2016).
- The National Constitution Center has posted a three-part podcast with Sidney Blumenthal, William Forbath, and Sean Wilentz on political parties and the Constitution: an introduction plus constitutional histories of the Republican and Democratic Parties.
- Yesterday, Dylan Penningroth and associates and fellows of the American Bar Foundation presented Civil Rights Advocacy: Past, Present and Future as one of several ABF events during the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
- The Call for Panels is now out for the Commission on Legal Pluralism's conference, "Citizenship, Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Age of Globalization" in a year's time (Aug.9-11, 2017) in Syracuse, NY. The deadline is Sept. 30, 2016.
- Proclaiming Emancipation, an exhibit drawn from the William L. Clements Library, “with select items from collaborating institutions,” is now open at the University of Michigan’s Detroit Center.
- The 8th Conference of the European network on Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures will meet at the University of Rouen Normandie, Nov.17-18, 2016. Submit your abstract for "North vs. South? Gender, law and economy in Early Modern and Modern Europe (15th -19th centuries)" in English or French (max. 3000 characters) by Sept.1, 2016 to anna.bellavitis@univ-rouen.fr and beatrice.zucca@gmail.com
- Via Environment, Law, and History: word that the Land Use Prof Blog is running a multi-part series on the history of zoning, to commemorate the practice's 100th anniversary.
- ICYMI: Sarah Vowell shows yet again why she is the favorite of connoisseurs of deadpan humor everywhere. Also, James E. Goodman, author of Stories of Scottsboro, Blackout, and But Where Is the Lamb? on sacrifices biblical and political.
