- Dylan C. Penningroth will deliver Hidden Histories of Black Civil Rights, the 2025 Pro Lecture in Legal History at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in conjunction with the UNLV Department of History, at 5:30 on February 11. The program is free, but registration is required.
- John Fabian Witt will deliver "Antagonists and Enablers: A First Draft History of Biden and the Supremes," the Mitchell Lecture for Spring 2025, at 2 p.m. on March 14, at the Charles B. Sears Law Library, John Lord O’Brian Hall, University at Buffalo (North Campus). Robert H. Jackson delivered the first Mitchell Lecture in 1951, titled “Wartime Security and Liberty Under Law.” Other Mitchell Lecturers include Derrick Bell, Paul Freund, Lawrence Friedman, Carol Gilligan, Sheila Jasanoff, Duncan Kennedy, Karl Llewellyn, Stuart Macaulay, Catharine MacKinnon, and Richard Posner. So, no pressure. Register here to attend.
- Former LHB blogger and president-elect of the American Society for Legal History Mitra Sharafi has won the Indian Law Review's article prize for 2023 for "Indian constitutionalism, the rule of law, and Parsi legal culture," which is available, open access, here.
- The organizing committee of the eighth European Society for Comparative Legal History’s biennial conference, "Back to the Past and Building the Future,” to be held at Szeged, on July 2-3, 2025 “has launched a website containing information on accommodation, traveling, membership fee and registration fee.” H/t: ESCHblog.
- The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy, the National Constitution Center and the Organization of American Historians are sponsoring a week-long, intensive summer workshop for “social studies educators who currently work in sixth–12th grade classrooms who have an interest in learning more about the history of the U.S. Constitution,” from Sunday, June 22-Friday, June 27. It opens with a panel discussion including Jeffrey Rosen, David Blight, and Akhil Amar, which will be open to the general public and livestreamed. More.
- Congratulations to former LHB Blogger Emily Prifogle upon the Michigan Law faculty's vote to award her tenure. H/T: WAKL
- Former LHB Guest Blogger Marie-Amélie George reviews Margot Canaday’s Queer Career in LHR.
- We did not know there was a Treasury Historical Association, much less that it awards a research prize, but we're glad we do now. Let's get going on the history of this.
- Here is the CFP for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, to be held in Chicago, January 8-11, 2016.
- The Georgetown University Center for the Constitution has awarded its annual Thomas M. Cooley book prize (a $50,000 award) to Robert Cottrol and Brannon Denning for their book, To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment (The Hoya).
- ICYMI: David Blight on birthright citizenship (The Atlantic). Mark Thomas on originialism and impoundment (Notice & Comment). Howard University “Celebrates the Life of Alumnus Henry L. Marsh III" (Howard)
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