- The Balkinization symposium on Alison LaCroix's The Interbellum Constitution has come to a close. All contributions are available here, including a response from LaCroix.
- Hendrik Hartog, emeritus at Princeton University, discusses his new book, Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2024) (Current).
- Also on Current, Michael J. Douma, Georgetown University, on his new book, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700–1827 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
- On September 20, the Arkansas Law Review will observe the centennial of the University of Arkansas School of Law with the symposium, Embracing the Past, Enhancing the Future: Exploring the Evolution of Legal Education.” One panel is devoted to the history of legal education.
- The State of the American Idea, a podcast of the National Constitution Center, recorded February 9, 2024. Charles Cooke, National Review, Melody Barnes, University of Virginia, and Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, “explore the debate about the core values of the American Idea—liberty, equality, democracy, and federalism—throughout American history and model the way in which Americans of different perspectives can come together in the spirit of civil dialogue.”
- ICYMI: Ronald K. L. Collins on Gitlow v. New York (FIRE). New Study of the Forsa Ring (“the Oldest Scandinavian Legal Text”) “Challenges Traditional Views of Viking Age Economy” (SciTechDaily). A fundraiser, on October 12, for the David Brearley Center for the American Constitution (Trenton Daily).
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