Saturday, August 3, 2024

Weekend Roundup

  • Noah Rosenblum, NYU Law, discusses Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy in WilmerHale's podcast series. "Leveraging his background as a legal historian, Rosenblum provides historical context and explains how applying a traditional Constitutional interpretation to the case increases its complexity."
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission held a 90th Anniversary Celebration, including remarks by Michael Beschloss and Joel Seligman.  The recording is here.
  • George Garnett asks why constitutional history is coming back in fashion in university history departments in Britain (History Today).
  • Learning to teach Milliken v. Bradley at “a two-week institute, 'Democracy in Education: A View from Detroit,' at the Walter P. Reuther Library” at Wayne State University (Chalkbeat).
  • The Comfort Fund of the University of Sydney’s law school, founded in July 1940 “to keep legal men and students in the Services in touch with the school and the legal professions, but the main object of the fund was to provide reading matter to those whose name was on the roll.”
  • George Yin, UVA Law, on what Stanley Surrey would have made of the New Textualism (UVA Law).
  • ICYMI: “Explore the history of politics and the Constitution in ‘A More or Less Perfect Union’” with Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg (NBC Montana).

  Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.