- From the Washington Post's Made by History section: Leif Fredrickson on the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, aka OIRA, aka "the federal agency that few Americans have heard of and which we all need to know." Also Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt) on the legal history behind "credit reporting companies' immense power and lack of transparency" and Christy Ford Chapin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) on what policymakers can learn from the history of Medicare.
- Women and the Supreme Court, a panel on the four women who have served on the US Supreme Court and the 726 (and counting) women who have argued before it, will take place on Thursday, October 5, 2017, at 7:00 pm, in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives in Washington, DC. Among the speakers is Marlene Trestman, author of Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin. H/t: ConSource (a co-sponsor of the event).
- On Thursday, October 5, 2017, from 5:30-7:30 pm, the University of San Francisco’s Thacher Gallery will host a panel discussion with members of the “Korematsu legal team” on the relevance of Executive Order 9066 for current immigration issues. The event is in conjunction with the Gallery’s exhibit, Something from Nothing: Art and Handcrafted Objects from America’s Concentration Camps. H/t: California Humanities.
- Next week's events sponsored or, as we assume in this case, co-sponsored by the Law and Public Affairs program at Princeton University include, on Wednesday, October 4, a session of the Workshop in Constitutional Development on "Dominus before Domination: Harriet Jacobs on Property and Slavery," by Desmond Jagmohan, Princeton University, and "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Alternative Tradition of Conservative Constitutional Theory, 1954-1980," by Ken I. Kersh, Boston College. (We don't believe the event is open to the public, but it is still of interest.)
- Best. Cover. Ever. Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian, by Richard Aldous. [IMHO. DRE]
- ICYMI: Penn Law's press release on the lateral hiring of Herbert Hovenkamp.
- Big news recently in India with the Supreme Court's ruling that the triple talaq (in Muslim personal law) is unconstitutional. Here is the full 395-page decision. Zubair Abbasi offers a summary and reflections on Shariasource.
- Also on the history of the personal law system in India: LHB blogger Mitra Sharafi's op-ed in the Times of India.
