Stephen J. Pollak died a week ago. He was Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division during Lyndon Johnson's administration, a long-time partner at the Washington law firm of Shea & Gardner, and an imaginative, dedicated, and extremely thoughtful President of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit, the kind of lawyer a legal historian dreams of working with but rarely finds. Here is the in memoriam page of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He gave an oral history to the Historical Society of the DC Circuit, which I've previously described here. He gave another to the LBJ Library. DRE
Stephen J. Pollak (credit)
- From the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History: "Former Supreme Court of Canada judge Ian Binnie will talk to the Osgoode Society about four prominent litigators whose careers [spanned] Canadian legal history from Confederation to the present: Oliver Mowat, W.N. Tilley, J.J. Robinette, and Ian Scott." May 1, 2024 - 5:30 pm at Zoom. Register here.
- Writing for Ms. Magazine: Felicia Kornbluh (University of Vermont) on "How Black Leaders Formed the Reproductive Justice Movement."
- From the Washington Post: "The antislavery giant at the center of the Trump disqualification case."
- On February 20, the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota is hosting a webinar on "The Immigration Act of 1924: Rethinking its Origins & Impact 100 Years Later." Register here.
- The Women’s and Gender Studies Institute and The Centre for the Study of the United States in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto has posted a notice for a Postdoctoral Fellow. The co-taught course the fellow would teach may include “gender and the American legal system.” More. H/t: H-Law.
- In the New Yorker: "The Ghost of Bush v. Gore Haunts the Supreme Court’s Colorado Case."
- ICYMI: "In today’s gun rights cases, historians are in hot demand" (OBP). But "does racist history count"? (LA Times.)
- Update: An panelists at an HLS symposium dispute the history of universal injunctions (Harvard Law Today).
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