- A recording of that Brennan Center event, The Fight Against Originalism Continues, with Jonathan Gienapp, Gautham Rao, and Rachel Shelden, is up on YouTube.
- The University of Florida Levin College of Law has announced its "inaugural" conference on originalism, Originalism: The What, Why, and How? It will be held Thursday, October 24 and Friday, October 25.
- On Tuesday, October 8 at 1 p.m. ET at the National Constitution Center, “Stanford University professor Jonathan Gienapp, . . . is joined by Stephen Sachs of Harvard Law School to discuss Gienapp’s challenge to originalists’ unspoken assumptions about the Constitution, the history of originalism as a constitutional methodology, and its role in constitutional interpretation today.” Register to attend online here.
- On October 8, 2024, from 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., the Supreme Court Historical Society and the Washington Presidential Library will host, at Mount Vernon, “a conversation between American University professor Gautham Rao, Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck, and Lindsay Chervinsky, the new Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library” on “the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and politics.” More.
- On October 9, the University of Kentucky Libraries will welcome Judge Robert L. Wilkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, for a roundtable discussion, in which Judge Wilkins “will share how an entry in UK Libraries’ Notable Kentucky African Americans database led him to find his family’s stories in court records at the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives" (UK News).
- At the National Constitution Center at Noon ET on Wednesday, October 16, Kenneth Mack, Harvard University joins David Greenberg to discuss Greenberg’s new biography, John Lewis: A Life. More.
- Rebecca Rector has posted Arphaxed Loomis: Anti-Slavery Democrat & Little Falls Law Reformer on New York Almanack.
- Caroline Burnham Kilgore, Pennsylvania's first female lawyer, gets a historical marker (Daily Times).
- The Historical Society for the DC Circuit has published its October 2024 newsletter. The contents include notice of a memorial celebration for the life and career of Magistrate Judge Alan Kay and the opening of an oral history I conducted with him in 1997. DRE.
- Historical Society of the New York Courts has named Julia Rose Kraut its new Director of Programs, Education, and Research. More.
- Thank you, Helen Knowles-Gardner, for noting that the US Supreme Court has digitized and posted its Journal online! As soon as she did, I used it and learned that in 1919 the Court granted Charles Evans Hughes's request that each side receive two hours to argue Commercial Cable Co. v. Burleson, before it decided that the case was moot and reversed Learned Hand's opinion below. DRE
- "Lambda Legal, the oldest nonprofit legal organization dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ people's rights and the rights of those living with HIV, will release its first-ever coffee table book titled Making the Case for Equality: 50 Years of Legal Milestones in LGBTQ+ History on October 29, 2024" (Advocate).
- The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada, previews the celebration next year of 150th anniversary of “ the only bilingual and bijural apex court in the world.”
- “Cambridge University PhD student Emily Rhodes delved into petitions submitted by women to the Lancashire quarter sessions courts between 1660 and 1720 ... to get financial help for taking in parentless children” (BBC).
- On her summer vacation from Syracuse University, Abi Greenfield compiled a dataset of about 500 political cartoons about the Canadian Constitution from five periods in Canadian history (Syracuse University News).
- When University of Miami doctoral candidate Jordan Rogers is not working on his degree, he is the part-time curator of history at the City of Miami Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum. In that capacity, he opened the exhibit, “Anything but a Slum: Miami-Overtown Before I-95/395.” On display until November 1, it “provides a detailed look into the history of segregated Black life in Miami in the decades before the implementation of the U.S. highway system in the 1950s and 1960s” (University of Miami).
- "After five years of planning, a group of Shenandoah University faculty and students has unveiled a virtual reality experience called ‘the Great Experiment.’ [It] takes users to Philadelphia in 1787, where the founders of a new nation are creating the Constitution. Through the virtual reality experience, users get to visit the room where it happened" (WHSV).
- C-SPAN Classroom's lesson plan for teaching The Federalist Papers.
- Lawbook Exchange's October catalogue of Scholarly Law & Legal History is here.
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