- In the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Felicia Kornbluh (University of Vermont) on "what Ruth Bader Ginsburg got wrong about pre-Roe abortion fights"; Ray Brescia (Albany Law School) argues that "cases this term will shape the Supreme Court far more than Biden’s commission."
- Historians of regulation and administration take note: the Bremer-Kovacs Collection: Historic Documents Related to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 is now live at HeinOnline. Thanks to Emily Bremer (Notre Dame Law School) and Kathryn Kovacs (Rutgers Law School) for sharing their research!
- In the op-ed pages of the New York Times: Mary Ziegler (Florida State University College of Law) predicts that "The End of Roe Is Coming, and It Is Coming Soon
- Jessica A. Shoemaker, University of Nebraska College of Law, reviews Gregory Ablavsky’s Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories (Oxford University Press, 2021), in the Michigan Law Review (and SSRN).
- A law student Bingo card, prepared for Matthew Steilen's seminar on Magna Carta at Buffalo Law. C'mon folks, don't make Steve do all the work!
- Congratulations to Blake Emerson (UCLA Law), whose article "The Departmental Structure of Executive Power: Subordinate Checks from Madison to Mueller" was named co-winner of the AALS Administrative Law Section Emerging Scholar Award. The article appears in Volume 38 of the Yale Journal on Regulation. (h/t: Kathryn Kovacs)
- In the New York Review of Books: Sarah Seo (Columbia Law School) on "Reimagining the Public Defender," reviewing books by Jonathan Rapping (Gideon's Promise), Sara Mayeux (Free Justice), and Matthew Clair (Privilege and Punishment). (The article is free to read, but you have to register.)
- New online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: The Portable Coup: The Jurisprudence of "Revolution" in Uganda and Nigeria, by Samuel Fury Childs Daly, and Religious Liberty Sacralized: The Persistence of Christian Dissenting Tradition and the Cincinnati Bible War, by Linda Przybyszewski .
- New online form the American Journal of Legal History and Oxford Journals: Legal Ridicule in the Age of Advertisement: Puffery, Quackery, and the Mass Market, by Anat Rosenberg.
- The New Jersey Council for the Humanities announces the launch of its Stanley N. Katz Prize for Excellence in Public Humanities a January 2022 kickoff event featuring a conversation with former ASLH president Stan Katz.
- The Heyburn Initiative strengthens the University of Kentucky Libraries’ mission to archive and digitize “collections from federal judges, justices, and other leaders related to the judiciary with connections to Kentucky" (UKnow).
- ICYMI: Mark Tushnet's pet peeves about legal scholarship include originalism. (Balkinization). A. Douglas Melamed interviews Herbert Hovenkamp, mostly about antitrust, but also about his historical training (SSRN) . George Boyer Vashon: New York’s First African American Attorney (Historical Society of the New York Courts). The Supreme Court of Georgia is set to kick off 175th anniversary celebration (Johnson City Press).
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