- Saul Cornell, Fordham Law, has a substantial post, Originalism's Historical Problems: The Supreme Court's Embrace of a Controversial Theory, over at Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. He also appears on the Supreme Myths podcast to discuss "the history of the Second Amendment, Originalism in general, and the Court’s creation of an anti-Constitution."
- Who Owns A Photo of Your Face? The Right to Privacy & The Courts, a session in the New York State Archives Partnership Trust’s Speaker Series, by Bruce W. Dearstyne and Henry M. Greenberg is now available online. “This session explores the 1902 landmark decision Roberson v. Rochester Folding-Box Company[, in which] 17-year-old Abigail Roberson went to court to stop a company from using her face in ads for its flour."
- "Cleveland State University’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Thursday to change the longtime name of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in light of increased scrutiny of the college’s namesake, former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, who owned slaves." More.
- Congratulations to this year’s participants in the Student Research Colloquium and Wallace Johnson First Book Program, who gathered at last week’s annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History and are listed here!
- New discoveries in the search for Joseph Smith’s legal cases (Church News).
- Stuart Kells, an adjunct professor at La Trobe University’s College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce in Australia, has written Ashurst: The Story of a Progressive Global Law Firm (Legal Cheek).
- Darren Ranco, chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, and Rebecca Tsosie, University of Arizona School of Law, gave the virtual Indian Law and History Lecture, co-hosted by the University of Maine School of Law and Maine Conservation Voters yesterday. The lecture treated “the Doctrine of Discovery, a millennia-old legal principle that formed the foundation for Western property law and was used to justify the Christian Crusades and colonization of the America” (University of Maine).
- Clio Visualizing History has a new homepage. (The announcement is here.) H/t: LK
- Hugh Rennie has published Chathams Resurgent: How the Islanders overcame 150 years of misrule (Fraser Books). In case you really want to get away (Stuff)
- ICYMI: Allan J. Lichtman against the ISL doctrine (NY Daily News). Steven Lubet on the Supreme Court's "bad history” in Bruen (The Hill). Paul J. Welch Behringer on Harry S Truman and the Federal Records Act (WaPo).
- Updates: A report on a panel on the history of reproductive health at Case Western Reserve University (The Observer). And today's NYT includes a story on an alleged leak of the result and authorship of Hobby Lobby in 2014. The Times story incidentally reports that anti-abortion activists contributed to the Supreme Court Historical Society at least in part to "mingle with justices at its functions." The long-serving Executive Director of the SCHS mentioned in the story retired in February 2021. A related Politico story from last summer is here.
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