- Balkinization has been hosting a symposium on Kunal Parker's The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). So far, Aziz Rana, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Paul Gowder, Amalia D. Kessler, and John Fabian Witt have contributed.
- The Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London has announced the establishment of the Law and the Humanities Hub (LHub), led by Anat Rosenberg. It “aims to foster academic expertise, creativity, and intellectual leadership in law and the humanities.” Here are its 2024/25 Visitors.
- The Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission has digitized approximately 3,700 case files from 1819 to 1865. Its "freely accessible and user-friendly website . . . will be publicly available within the next few months." More.
- The University of Chicago Law School will host a book launch for Curtis Bradley’s Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice, with comments by Will Baude and David Strauss, on Wednesday, December 3, 12:15pm to 1:10pm, at the Law School. The event is open to the public.
- A notice of the 44th German Legal History Conference (Goethe Universität).
- A notice of a conference at Kings College London in support of the Cambridge History of International Law volume on the Pacific from circa 1500 until 1920 (KCL).
- The National Constitution Center will hold a symposium on The Life and Constitutional Legacy of Gouverneur Morris at Noon ET on Thursday, December 12 with Dennis Rasmussen, Melanie Randolph Miller, and William Treanor. Jeffrey Rosen will moderate.
- The next session in the American Society for Legal History series, Making Connections: New Works in Legal History, will occur on Wednesday, December 11, 6-7pm Central Time. Chlöe Kennedy will discuss her Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (2024) with interlocutor Catherine Evans. ASLH President Barbara Welke will moderate. Register here.
- On Lawfare's "Chatter" podcast, Rachel Shelden, Penn State University, discusses how widespread violence and another civil war were avoided as the nation resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876.
- Thomas McSweeney's Jot on Ada Maria Kuskowski's, "The Time of Custom and the Medieval Myth of Ancient Customary Law," 99 Speculum 143 (2024).
- ICYMI: Sandra Day O'Connor was no conservative (HNN). The price America paid for the Chinese Exclusion Act (NPR). Open access (for a few more days): The Case of the Slave Ship Zong (History Today).
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