- Slate's Amicus podcast (hosted by Dahlia Lithwick) is doing a series on originalism. The first episode in the series is here ("How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick").
- The Death Panel podcast has released a conversation with Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania) and Katie Eyer (Rutgers Law) on their article "Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution," Yale Law Journal (2024). The episode is currently available to patrons only, but will eventually be "unlocked."
- Welcome to the blogosphere to Legal History Insights, moderated by Thomas Duve, on th doings of the department on Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory!
- Boston College Law School has launched the website Black History at BC Law “to honor, document, and celebrate the rich history of contributions from Black BC Law community members as student leaders, educators, academics, judges, activists, litigators, transactional attorneys, and visionaries." More.
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies has announced its 2024-2025 Fellows. They include Myisha S. Eatmon for “to complete a book on black Americans’ use of tort law to seek justice during the Jim Crow era, and to begin a second project on the legal relationship between black Americans and American Jews during Jim Crow and the Holocaust"; Daphna Renan and Nikolas Bowie, for a book “that contests judicial supremacy ... and recovers a tradition rooted in abolitionism that allows the American people to define the Constitution democratically”; and Laura Weinrib, for “a book on labor unions, corporations, and money’s role in politics in the United States.”
- Claire Potter interviews Paul Sabin, Yale University, about his book, Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism (Political Junkie).
- "More than 200 people attended a special community celebration on
Saturday, April 27, commemorating the sesquicentennial (150th)
anniversary of the construction of Aliʻiōlani Hale, home of the Hawaiʻi
Supreme Court." More. H/t Michael Banerjee
- The U.S. Capitol Historical Society will host a Native American Suffrage Symposium on Thursday, May 23, "to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.”
- Legal historians were among the political historians and political scientists at the conference, How the New Deal Was Run, held last weekend at Vanderbilt University. Kevin Kruse's brief notice of the conference is here.
- New online in the AJLH: Letter Writing and Legal Consciousness during World War I, by Elizabeth A. Hoffmann. It "explores how ordinary Americans thought about law during World War I by examining 119 letters to Congress regarding charges under the Espionage Act.”
- New journal alert: "Early Medieval England and its Neighbours is an open access, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to new research on England, its closest geographic and intellectual neighbours, and their wider cultural contacts from the 5th to the 11th century."
- Lawbook Exchange’s May 2024 catalogue.
- ICYMI: Yesterday the Supreme Court of Tasmania turned 200. Ralph Richard Banks, Standford Law, asks, Brown v. Board: Success or Failure? Should tikanga Māori be taught in New Zealand's law schools? (Re:). Patrick O'Donnell on Law and Psychoanalysis.
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