- The Dallas Bar Association will sponsor. with the J.L. Turner Legal Association, a conversation with Jose F. Anderson, University of Baltimore School of Law, on his book Genius for Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Reform of American Law on Thursday, May 30, 2024, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, at Dallas’s Arts District Mansion. Professor Anderson will highlight “cases litigated from Texas that were part of Houston's strategy to define the responsibility and privileges of citizenship under constitutional government.” CLE credit is available.
- Cameron Sauers, a doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University, reviews Giuliana Perrone's Nothing More Than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (2023) in The Docket.
- Christine Kexel Chabot, Marquette Law, has posted Saving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (and the Constitution) from the Courts, a critique of the Supreme Court's use of history in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association. The Brennan Center also weighs in.
- We've previously noted the passing of Stephen J. Pollak. Here are Attorney General Merrick Garland's remarks at a memorial event for Mr. Pollak.
--Dan Ernst