- Lukasz Korporwicz, associate professor in the Department of Roman Law and vice dean for research at the University of Lodz in Poland, will speak on “Sophisticated Legal Tradition? On the Relation Between Common, Canon and Civil Law Once Again” at 7 p.m. on April 3 in the Thunder Room in the Jack B. Kelley Student Center on West Texas A&M’s Canyon campus.
- Hidetaka Hirota and Kevin Kenny will discuss the history of state immigration control and the first deportations of immigrants in “Receiving the Irish,” a YouTube Live presentation, sponsored by the Tenement Museum, on Monday, March 31, 6:30PM - 7:30PM ET.
- The testimony of Amanda Frost at the congressional hearing "'Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof': Birthright Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment," on February 25, 2025 (SSRN).
- In the Berkeley Talks podcast series, "UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Brian Fitzpatrick, the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise at Vanderbilt Law School . . . debate the merits of originalism in constitutional interpretation."
- A report of a session at the American Judges Education Institute summit devoted to The Collective-Action Constitution by Neil Siegel, Duke Law School (ABA).
- "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" is an Executive Order issued on March 27 that instructs the Smithsonian to purge
itself of "improper ideology" and directs the Secretary of the Interior
to ensure that memorials and monuments within his department's
jurisdiction do not "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living
(including persons living in colonial times), and instead focus on the
greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people."
- Okay, then how about restoring Sojourner Truth and the greatness of her achievements? An "episode of A New York Minute in History podcast commemorates Women’s History Month by uncovering the groundbreaking 1828 court case of Sojourner Truth, a self-emancipated Black woman who took on a white slave owner to free her young son from slavery in the South" (New York Almanack).
- Legal historians Michael Klarman, Jed Shugerman et al. discussed Trump v. United States at HLS recently (Harvard Crimson).
- A notice of Cheryl Harris’s Mathew O. Tobriner Memorial Lecture, the keynote for the Racial Capitalism Symposium at UC Law San Francisco held on February 7 (UC Law SF).
- LHB Guest Blogger Jill Hasday is in conversation with June Carbone on Professor Hasday's book We the Men at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis on Monday, April 7, at 7pm CDT.
ICYMI: Clay Risen reminds us that before Mahmoud Khalil, there was Harry Bridges (Bulwark). Also that Arnold, Fortas & Porter stood up to McCarthyism (Politico). The United States approaches its "Andrew Jackson Moment" (The Conversation). That oral history project for government employees who lost their jobs (WaPo). A profile of federal judge Florence Allen (at right) (CNO). Ezekiel Gillespie, a 19th-century civil rights pioneer (Milwaukee Independent).
Florence E. Allen (LC)
- Update: Legal historians of the administrative state will want to view the recording of the recent on-line symposium, How is Trump 2.0 Reshaping the Administrative State? convened by Penn's Neysun Mahboubi. Participants include Columbia's Gillian Metzger, whose 2017 HLR Foreword compared today's "anti-administrativism" with that of the 1930s.
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