- Former ASLH President Constance Backhouse delivered the 14th Annual DeLloyd J. Guth Visiting Lecture in Legal History at the University on Manitoba on her forthcoming book on the RDS case, “in which the Supreme Court of Canada struggled with a claim of racial bias against Canada’s first Black female judge" (UM Today).
- The exhibit of the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library on the history of abortion in the U.S. will open on October 24. It is curated by Mary Ziegler, UC Davis School of Law (Harvard Gazette).
- Randall Kennedy, HLS, interviewed on Walker v. City of Birmingham, one of the cases he will discuss in his forthcoming book, From Protest to War, Triumphs and Defeats in Struggles for Racial Justice, 1950 to 1970 (wbhm).
- Kate Redburn, an Academic Fellow at the Columbia Law School and a JD-PhD candidate at Yale University reviews Anna Lvovsky’s Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall in the University of Chicago Law Review.
- I previously noted my Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail’s research on the North Carolina judge William Gaston and slavery. He and Georgetown's Adam Rothman have updated a list of the 163 people Gaston enslaved and posted it with Professor Mikhail’s letter to the Georgetown Slavery Archive. See also this separate page on Gaston's estate inventory. (A link to another one on Gaston's will is pending.) DRE
- “In 2006 and again in 2016, the University of Pennsylvania denied having any connections to the institution of slavery. In 2017, five students under the direction of history professor Kathleen Brown formed the Penn and Slavery Project to investigate those claims, ultimately concluding that Penn both supported and relied on the institution of slavery in its early days” (AHA Perspectives).
- The Lawbook Exchange has published The Comparative Method in the Science of Law, written in Ukrainian by Lev Rebet in 1947-48 and now edited and translated by William E. Butler and O.V. Kresin. “This study, previously unknown to the world of comparative law, may be considered to be the first monograph in the world devoted to the methodology of comparative jurisprudence.”
- "The Big in Jewish Law: A Day Conference on the Legal Issues, Phenomena, and Epochs that Often Seem ‘Too Big’ for Scholarly Analysis.” Jewish Law Association. November 1, 2022, 08:50–17:15 EDT, CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY. More.
- ICYMI: The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in an appeal seeking to overturn The Insular Cases (NPR).
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