- Does Thomas Ruffin's portrait deserve to "dominate" North Carolina's top courtroom? Historians Eric Muller (UNC Law) and Sally Greene (independent scholar) raise the question in the Raleigh-based News & Observer.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Allan J. Lichtman (American University) on the history of voting restrictions and the problem of low voter turnout.
- The Environment, Law, and History blog has been running a series of posts on a recent issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law, on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50: Context, Precedents, and Afterlife." Here's a link to the first post. The most recent one is here.