- Our friends at the Federal Judicial Center have posted the legislation that for the first time increased the size of the US Supreme Court and established a new federal circuit.
- We're getting caught up on Legal History Miscellany posts since the new year--here's Krista J. Kesselring (Dalhousie University) on Star Chamber records and early modern fugitives, Sara M. Butler (The Ohio State University) on femme sole status, and Cassie Watson (Oxford Brookes University) on illustrated Victorian crime reports.
- Over at Nursing Clio: Cara Delay (College of Charleston) on the trial of abortionist Mamie Cadden in 1950s Ireland.
- An advance alert from Oxford University Press tells us of the online publication of two articles in the American Journal of Legal History. We've previously noted Zachary Newkirk’s "Full Justice May Be Done Them": The Case of Bill, Charles, Jupiter, Randolph, et al. v. William A. Carr in a Florida Freedmen's Bureau Court. New to us is John Harrington and Ambreena Manji’s “Africa Needs Many Lawyers Trained for the Need of their Peoples”: Struggles over Legal Education in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana.
- Calling all junior scholars of Asian socio-legal studies (including those doing archival research): read up on the Training Initiative for Asian Law & Society Scholars (TRIALS) here. The deadline is June 20, 2019.
- ICYMI: An ABA Journal Gallery: 12 Supreme Court milestones that helped define First Amendment rights. A report on the presentation “Idaho Women Win the Right to Vote” by the professors Katherine Aiken and Rebecca Scofield at the University of Idaho.
- Update: When we think of legal-historian spouses of presidential candidates, we of course think of Bruce Mann, a past-president of the ASLH. The Hill reminds us we should also think of Amy Klobuchar's spouse, John Bessler. Legal historians: they're quite the catch!
