- In light of the recently issued court rulings on the abortion medication mifepristone, it would be a good time to revisit this recent piece by historians Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman: "The Ghost of Anthony Comstock and the Abortion Wars." For a refresher on Comstock and the Comstock laws, check out this 2019 episode of the Dig podcast. For those on Twitter, legal historians Lauren MacIvor Thompson and Mary Ziegler, among others, have been offering timely commentary.
- Congratulations to Karl Shoemaker on his appointment as the Robert F. and Sylvia T. Wagner Distinguished Faculty Chair from the College of Letters and Science at UW-Madison!
- And to Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University, on her selection as a National Humanities Center Fellow for 2023-24, for what she describes as a work in progress with Maeva Marcus on “a prehistory of the earliest Supreme Court"!
- And to former LHB Guest Blogger Mary Ziegler, UC Davis School of Law, and to Scott Cummings, UCLA Law, the author of An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles (2021), on their receipt of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships!
- Carlos Fernandez Salas, a lawyer currently pursuing a doctorate at Harvard University, will present in the Legal History Roundtable at Boston College Law School on Thursday, April 20 from 4:30pm to 5:45pm.
- Austin Sarat on Alexander Hamilton on subjecting a removed commander in to “”prosecution and punishment” in The Conversation, Salon and The Smithsonian.
- Over at the Transnational Litigation Blog, William S. Dodge, UC Davis School of Law, has posted his appreciation of William Casto’s scholarship on the Origins of the Alien Tort Statute from that recent conference in Professor Casto’s honor.
- Georgetown Law observes the centennial of United States v. Thind (1923) on Thursday, April 20, at 5:30 PM. Tejinder Singh, Sparacino PLLC; Sherally Munshi, Georgetown Law; and Sim J. Singh, The Sikh Coalition will “examine the intersections between Thind and race, caste, colonialism, its implications for religion and activism, and what we can learn from this history today.”
- On the ABAJ's podcast, Samantha Barbas is interviewed about her new book, Actual Malice: Freedom of the Press and Civil Rights in New York Times v. Sullivan.
- The latest Newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit is available here.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Dan Ewart (Princeton University), "Trump’s experience with fingerprinting was the opposite of normal"; Kyla Sommers, "The fight over crime in D.C. is a repeat of 55 years ago"; and more.
- ICYMI: "The Declaration of Breda” is expected to “fetch up to £600,000 ($749,000)” when Sotheby’s auctions it off (CNN). Penn names first female law school dean in 170-plus year history (Philadelphia Inquirer).
- Update: Over at The Jackson List, John Q Barrett notes the passing of Benjamin B. Ferencz.
