- Angela Fernandez's Vox article (with Justin Marceau), occasioned by the escape of those 43 lab monkeys, led to this interview with Professor Fernandez in Psychology Today on her book, Pierson v. Post, the Hunt for the Fox.
- UMass Law has posted a recording of its launch of Faisal Chaudhry’s South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Towards a Historical Ontology of Law (Oxford University Press). In addition to Professor Chaudry, the participants were Tiraana Bains, Brown University; Osama Siddiqui, Providence College; Sana Haroon, UMass Boston; Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School; and Danya Reda, Wayne State Law.
- UC Berkeley Law’s Robbins Collection Research Center is digitizing its hundreds of manuscripts “written in Latin, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, English, French, German, and Arabic, dating as far back as the 12th century" (Berkeley Law).
- In collaboration with the University of Arkansas, Arkansas devotes $1 million to digitizing correspondence, journals and proceedings relating to its constitution (Arkansas Advocate; UA News).
- The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College is hosting as a hybrid event a book launch for Anna Grzymala-Busse’s Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the Modern State on December 5 from 5-7.
- Sam Mihara, will deliver the 2024 the National Endowment for the Humanities' Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, entitled “Memories of Injustice,” at 6 p.m. on January 15, 2025, in Los Angeles. “The lecture is free and open to the public and will stream online [here]. Mihara will speak about the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his personal experiences as a prisoner at a U.S. relocation camp near Heart Mountain, Wyoming.” More.
- Congratulations to Saikrishna Prakash, Virginia Law, upon his receipt of the 2023 Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship for his surprising and illuminating article, “Deciphering the Commander-in-Chief Clause.”
- Law Book Exchnage's November 2024 catalogue of Scholarly Law & Legal History is here.
- ICYMI: An essay on Gong Lum v. Rice (U.S. 1927) in New York Almanack. How NYC's Women's Court made Greenwich Village Bohemian (Gotham Center). John Lawrence uses the Port Chicago Exoneration case to show How Congress Is Written Out of History (AHA Perspectives).
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