- From Time's "Made by History" section" Anthony Lee Gregory, "Republicans’ Calls for ‘Law and Order’ Have Democratic Roots"; Alison Lefkovitz, "The Right Aims to Turn Back the Clock on American Divorce Law."
- Legal historian Danaya Wright is doing the Lord's work at the University of Florida (Alligator).
- Legal historian Farah Peterson received the Pushcart Prize for her essay, “Alone with Kindred,” which first appeared in the Threepenny Review.
- We spotted two recent book reviews by Reuel Schiller, UC Law San Francisco. First up is Schiller's Jotwell review of Margot Canaday's Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (2023)., entitled Liberation Without Law: Queer Workers and the Limits of Legal Liberalism. Then there's From Binding Arbitration to Shareholder Activism: Labor History and the History of Modern Liberalism, his Reviews of American History essay on two books by masters of the history of American labor relations, Sanford M. Jacoby's Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank, and Ronald W. Schatz's The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era.
- Stephen Sedley reviews The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History by Allen D. Boyer and Mark Nicholls in the London Review of Books.
- Jessica Lowe, University of Virginia School of Law, has posted her review essay on Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell's The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s-1830s, which will appear in a symposium in Federal History.
- Over at Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog, Otto Vervaart on repetitiones, "a kind of special lectures by medieval professors on selected themes in Roman and canon law," in Early Modern editions of medieval legal treatises.
- Joan Howarth discusses the history of the bar exam in an episode of the ABA's The Modern Law Library devoted to her book, Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing.
- The National Constitution Center has posted a new podcast: Randy Barnett, Georgetown Law and the author of the memoir A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist, “joins Jeffrey Rosen to discuss his role in the evolution of originalism from a philosophy of judicial restraint to one of constitutional conservatism dedicated to restoring ‘the lost Constitution.’”
- The Oklahoma State Department of Education has issued its “Standards Guidelines for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year,” which are to be “immediate[ly] and complete[ly] implemented. “This memorandum and the included standards must be provided to every teacher as well as providing a physical copy of the Bible, the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Ten Commandments as resources in every classroom in the school district. These documents are mandatory for the holistic education of students in Oklahoma.” More.
- ICYMI: Daniel Rodgers, Nell Irvin Painter, Aziz Rana, and Abram Van Engen on President Biden's withdrawal from the presidential campaign (WaPo). Michael McConnell discusses Trump v. United States with Pam Karlin (SLS). Jay Rubenstein says that although the decision might put presidents above the law, kings never were (The Conversation).
- Update: Join Their "Quest for the Truth"? The Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida is hiring.
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