- Congratulations to Rabiat Akande, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, upon being named the 2025 Wilson H. Elkins Professor by the University System of Maryland, which comes with “an award of $80,000 over two years to support a research project titled ‘Law and the Histories of Empire’” (The Elm).
- A nice notice by Ronald A. Brand of his University of Pittsburgh School of Law colleague and legal historian Bernard Hibbitts upon Professor Hibbitts's retirement.
- In the wake of President Trump's Executive Order on "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship," many historians and legal scholars are weighing in on the history of birthright citizenship: Martha S. Jones (Johns Hopkins) spoke to WBUR; Rachel Rosenbloom (Northeastern University School of Law) wrote for Made by History; Evan Bernick (Northern Illinois University) spoke to Time.
- The American Historical Association is hosting a congressional briefing on the history of the U.S. House of Representatives. It will take place on Wednesday, January 29 at 9:00 a.m. ET in Rayburn House Office Building Room 2075. The panelists are Kathryn Cramer Brownell (Purdue University), Matthew Green (Catholic University of America), and Rachel Shelden (Pennsylvania State University).
- Guillaume Tusseau will speak on Bentham's constitutional thought on February 7 at Sciences Po. The discussants will be Peter Niesen and Xiaobo Zhai.
- Pamela Brandwein reviews Mark Graber's Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War (Lawfare).
- Paul Moreno reviews Stuart Banner’s The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States (Law & Liberty).
- Talbot Publishing, an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., has published G. I. Tunkin: Selected Works, edited and translated by William E. Butler.
- ICYMI: The Constitution disappears from the White House website (Newsweek). Rockingham County (Virginia) Circuit Court is celebrating the restoration and digitization of “a Burnt Deed Book from 1815, a Land Book from 1878, and a Land Tax Book dating as far back as 1812" (WHSV). "Harvard Outsources Program to Identify Descendants of Those Enslaved by University Affiliates" (Harvard Crimson).
- Update: Mary Frances Berry on the Executive Order suspending civil rights enforcement (Yahoo/The Grio). John Yoo on birthright citizenship (AEI).
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