- "How We Told the Ongoing Story of Title IX": Laura Mogulescu, Curator of Women's History Collections for the Center for Women's History at the New-York Historical Society, writes for History News Network about the exhibition "Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field."
- Congratulations to Lea VanderVelde upon her being named a 2022 University Distinguished Chair at the University of Iowa. “The award is one of the highest bestowed on Iowa faculty. It recognizes tenured scholars of national and international distinction who are making a significant positive impact within the university, state of Iowa, and beyond through teaching, research, and/or scholarship.” (Iowa Now).
- Nominations are due June 1 for ASLH awards celebrating “legal history research published or defended in the previous calendar year.” More.
- "The Association of Research of the Professional History of the Members
of the Austrian Bar Discredited between 1938 and 1945" announces the second edition of Advokaten 1938, which deals with "the fates
of 2,200 lawyers and trainee lawyers registered with the regional bar
organisations of Austria on January 1, 1938, who were either barred from continuing their training or from practicing the legal profession from 1938 to 1945." More.
- Dean Risa Goluboff recommends three books on the U.S. Supreme Court (Princeton Alumni Weekly).
- A report on that symposium on Lincoln the Lawyer at the Quincy History Museum (WGEM).
- Mapping racially restrictive covenants in Rochester, Minnesota (mprnews).
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Jane Marcellus, "Tennessee Republicans turn to mail regulation to restrict abortion"; Lynn Greenky (Syracuse University), "What many on the right get wrong about the First Amendment"; Lara Friedenfelds, "When the Constitution was drafted, abortion was a choice left to women."
- ICYMI: What the Suffragists Really Thought about Abortion? by Treva B. Lindsey, Ohio State University (Smithsonian). How Fred Korematsu defied Japanese incarceration in the U.S. during WWII (NatGeo). How the long and strange history of wiretapping continues to shape how Americans conceive of surveillance and privacy (Nation). Washington State’s anti-tipping law of 1909 (HistoryLink.org). Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath on making progressive politics constitutional again (Boston Review). "Joshua Montefiore, First Jewish Author to Publish a Law Book in America" (In Custodia Legis).
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