- On February 21, 2025, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University will convene a day-long event titled "The Law in Times of Emergency and Transition: Legal Perspectives on 40 Years of Democracy in Brazil." Registration is open to the public.
- In Time Magazine's Made By History series: Karin Wulf on John Marshall's dinner with John Adams, Rachel Rosenbloom notes that Birthright Citizenship Has Been Challenged Before, and Bruce W. Dearstyne discusses TR's DOGE.
- Reviews of Jonathan Gienapp's Against Constitutional Originalism in the online journal of the Liberty Fundby John O. McGinnis and Mike Rappaport and Aaron N. Coleman.
- Keith Whittington discusses why free speech can't be taken for granted on the Inside Yale Law School podcast.
- From ProMarket: Elizabeth Popp Berman (University of Michigan) on "How Industrial Policy Gave Us the Sherman Act." (H/t LPE Blog)
- A reminder: Amanda Tyler will speak on Mitsuye Endo and Japanese Incarceration on Zoom for the Supreme Court Historical Society on January 23 at 12 pm EST.
- Chelsea Gibson interviews Kenyon Zimmer, a historian of transnational radicalism, on his “comprehensive digital archive of Red Scare deportees” (SHGAPE Blog).
- Online and at the Signet Library in Edinburgh, Chloe Kennedy will discuss her book Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law on January 30, 6 - 8pm GMT. More.
- Paul Finkleman discussed the complicated history of “John McLean: Southern Ohio’s Homegrown Anti-Slavery Justice" (UCNews).
- The Lillian Goldman Law Library at the Yale Law School, has a new exhibit. Running through May 25, 2025, Flowers at Lambach "follows the history of a single manuscript volume: a collection of texts relating to canon law, produced by the scriptorium at the Benedictine Abbey of Lambach in Austria in the late 15th century, and entering into the collections of the Yale Law Library in 1949.
- An excerpt from Michelle Adams's The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North (Literary Hub) and Michigan Law's notice of the book.
- Just out from Oxford University Press: Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law: Essays for Mark Tushnet, edited by Madhav Khosla and Vicki C. Jackson.
- ICYMI: Eric Muller on what federal workers in a second Trump administration can learn from the lawyers of the War Relocation Authority (Chicago Tribune). Therese O'Neill discusses the famous Mrs. Packard on the This Day In Esoteric Political History podcast. Egbert Benson: New York’s first Attorney General (New York Almanack). Alicia Gutierrez-Romine on the legal history of abortion bans (Perspectives in American History).
- Update: Kenneth W. Mack and other historians (including Sarah Igo, Donald Critchlow, and Sean Wilentz) on Biden's presidential legacy (Politico). An obituary of Shirah Neiman (1943-2025), who, some years after Eunice Hunton Carter left the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, joined its by then all-male Criminal Division and became its expert on criminal tax law (NYT). Holly Brewer on becoming a Friend of the Court (Perspectives in History).
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