- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" Section: Max Felker-Kantor (DePauw University) on "How the Olympics accelerated mass incarceration in Los Angeles"; and Carly Goodman (Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow, American Friends Service Committee) on "How the net neutrality debate exposes the consequences of a profit-driven Internet." Also, a few we missed from last week: Sam Lebovic (George Mason University), "Want to end the war on whistleblowers? Revise the Espionage Act"; and former LHB guest blogger Benjamin Coates (Wake Forest University), "How a WWI-era law set the stage for the Trump-Russia controversy."
- The Junto put together a virtual roundtable on Teaching Amid Political Tension. Here's a contribution from former LHB guest blogger Gautham Rao (American University).
- The podcast In the Past Lane has an episode up on "The Zenger Trial and the Birth of the Free Press in America."
- The historians' brief in the Emoluments Clause case, CREW v. Trump, is out. Signatories are Jed Handelsman Shugerman, John Mikhail, Jack N. Rakove, Gautham Rao, and Simon Stern.
- The New England Law | Boston is hosting the conference The Importance of Theory in the Law School Classroom and in the Practice of Law on September 14. We’re told that, for purposes of the conference, at least, “Theory” includes Legal History.
- ICYMI: In The Indiana Lawyer, the Allen County Bar Association "collects oral histories from the legal community." Also, Paula A. Monopoli, Maryland Law, reviews Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law, by Tracy A. Thomas, in the Journal of Legal Education.
- Update: according to a story in the Hartford Courant, with the cessation on August 25 of its use "for the purpose of a county courthouse," the land on which Litchfield's 250-year old courthouse sits will revert to "the heirs of the original six proprietors who leased the land to the county in 1803."
