- WaPo’s Fred Barbash on my Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail: "Trump’s ‘emoluments’ battle: How a scholar’s search of 200 years of dictionaries helped win a historic ruling." Update: CNN’s Chris Cillizza’s email interview of Professor Mikhail. DRE
- Now online on C-SPAN: Last month's National History Center briefing, on the History of US Trade Policy.
- Greg Taylor, University of Adelaide School of Law, has posted The Grand Jury of New Zealand, which appeared in LAWTALK 919 (July 2018): “Little is remembered of the grand jury of New Zealand nowadays, but it existed within living memory – after 118 years of operation starting in 1844, the last grand jury sat in Gisborne on 28 November 1961. As late as July 1961 a grand jury in Hamilton refused to permit a prosecution against an electricity worker for failing to provide the necessary safety equipment and thereby causing the death of a worker.”
- This week in the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Alison Lefkovitz (New Jersey Institute of Technology/Rutgers-Newark) on "Jordan Peterson and the Return of the Men's Rights Movement."
- ICYMI: Josh Blackman & Seth Barrett Tillman on Lawfare: Is Robert Mueller an “Officer of the United States” or an “Employee of the United States”? Seth Barrett Tillman, What is the "Privilege" of the Writ of Habeas Corpus? on New Reform Club. Michael Klarman in the Harvard Gazette: Are there holes in the Constitution?
- From "Talking Points Memo": Gregory Downs (UC Davis) on the 150-year history of today's voter suppression tactics.
- On the University of Leicester's Carceral Archipelago: Katy Roscoe on 19th-c. Gibraltar convicts and the sea.
