Saturday, August 31, 2024

Weekend Roundup

  • It is paywalled, but Noah Feldman's review of Aziz Rana's The Constitutional Bind is in the Chronicle of Higher Education
  • The Historians Project of the Brennan Center for Justice has filed a brief by Alex Keyssar, Carol Anderson, J. Morgan Kousser, and Orville Vernon Burton in Nairne v. Landry, a voting rights case.  
  • “Penn History Department launches political history concentration for undergraduate majors”–which was “was spearheaded by assistant History professor Sarah Gronningsater and History professor Brent Cebul” (Daily Pennsylvanian).
  • The American Historical Association is sponsoring a Congressional Briefing on American military alliances on Wednesday, September 11 at 9:00 a.m. ET in Rayburn House Office Building Room 2045.  The panelists are Renata Keller (University of Nevada, Reno), Jeremi Suri (University of Texas, Austin), and Colleen Woods (Univ. of Maryland, College Park).
  • The University of Houston Law Center announces the hiring of, among others, Andrew Lanham, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and "a legal historian who studies how social protest movements have reshaped civil rights and civil liberties law in the United States."
  • Retired New York Court of Appeals Associate Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt has been designated the historian of New York State's Unified Court System in which capacity he will liaise with the Historical Society of the New York Courts (New York Law Journal).

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