- From Bloomberg Law, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (USC), "The Birthright Citizenship Problem That DACA Can’t Fix." (And for more on this theme, check out his recent piece in The Nation, which we missed when it came out in June: "The Lottery: The Two Faces of Birthright Citizenship.")
- “The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical scholarship and in the communication of legal history to all its possible publics and audiences.” More.
- Now in paper: Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England, by Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School.
- Check out the Asian Law and Society Association's new website here. Nominations for ALSA book, article, and grad student paper awards are due July 31.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Noah Rosenblum (Samuel I. Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law), "The Supreme Court just made the president more powerful"; Lisa Levenstein (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), "History shows that we can solve the child-care crisis — if we want to"; and more.
- ICYMI: David Bernstein on why he studies constitutional history (Volokh Conspiracy). Josh Blackman on that Field Docket Book (Volokh Conspiracy). (For more on the docket books, this, this, this, and this.) A review of Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law and Ideas by Stephen Budiansky (Law.com).
- Update: Blake Emerson on The Constitution of Social Progress at LPE Blog, part of a symposium on socialist constitutionalism that includes posts on Weimar by Willy Forbath and Samuel Moyn.