- The Historical Society of the New York Courts has posted the podcast Litchfield Law School’s Influence on NY State Bench & Bar and a Young Nation. Host David L. Goodwin, Society Trustee, interviews Paul DeForest Hicks.
- Joseph D. Kearney, Marquette Law, and Thomas W. Merrill, Columbia Law, “discuss the shenanigans that ultimately gave the city and the state of Illinois one of its most priceless parcels of land and preserves it for public use” in a podcast on the ABA Journal’s Legal Talk Network. They are the authors of Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago (Cornell University Press).
- The abstracts for papers in the Asian Legal History Conference, July 24-25, are here.
- Congratulations to William & Mary Assistant Professor of History Brianna Nofil, the recipient of the 61st annual Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians for her dissertation, “Detention Power: Jails, Camps, and the Origins of Immigrant Incarceration, 1900-2002.” (More.)
- New online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: From Disestablishment to Dartmouth College v. Woodward: How Virginia's Fight over Religious Freedom Shaped the History of American Corporations, by Alyssa Penick, and Policing, Profits, and the Rise of Immigration Detention in New York's “Chinese Jails,” by Brianna Nofil.
- More CRT: The New Hampshire attorney general says that “teaching about the country’s history of slavery, its racist Jim Crow Laws, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the modern Black Lives Matter movement won’t violate state law even if those lessons make students uncomfortable, according to legal advice from the state Attorney General’s Office" (Concord Monitor).
- And still more: Over 140 organizations, have signed onto this Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History, authored by American Association of University Professors, the American Historical Association, the Association of American Colleges & Universities, and PEN America.
- From the History News Network: How Historians Convinced SCOTUS that the NCAA's Idea of Amateurism is a Myth."
- We recently discovered the "Now & Then" podcast, hosted by historians Joanne Freeman (Yale University) and Heather Cox Richardson (Boston College). For a particularly relevant recent episode, checkout "Judging the Supreme Court."
- The Law Library of Congress invites you to a webinar on federal statutes.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Adam R. Shapiro, "When opponents decry critical race theory, they’re really fighting against change: the lessons of the Scopes trial for today."
- Fire in the White House! At 7 PM EDT on July 28, the Elk Rapids Area Historical Society hosts a live stream of Craig G. Wright, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, discussing the fire that gutted the West Wing and ruined the Oval Office on Christmas Eve, 1929.
- For anyone working on socio-legal history and technology: check out the new Law and Society Fellowship at the Simons Institute at Berkeley.
- ICYMI: George Thomas on America’s Imperfect Founding (The Bulwark). A notice of The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero, by Peter S. Canellos (Courier Journal). Woman suffrage and Prohibition in Iowa (Cedar Rapids Gazette). The Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project’s first historic marker recognizes “local gay rights activist Bob Uplinger,” whose battle in an entrapment case contributed to decriminalization in New York (Buffalo Rising).
- Update: Colbert King on Karen Hastie Williams (WaPo).
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