- Over at Balkinization, John Q. Barrett lets us, too, read Charles Reich's mail as Reich decides between Paul, Weiss and Arnold Porter & Fortas in 1955.
- Harold Koh et al.: Bills of attainder are back, but shouldn't be (Just Security).
- Evan Bernick's posts on birthright citizenship (Volokh Conspiracy).
- The
Florida Supreme Court Historical Society invites judges, lawyers, law
professors, and other citizens to serve on its board of trustees.
- Modern Criminal Law Review 1:2 (2025) is a special issue, edited by Simon Stern, University of Toronto, devoted to Criminal Law, Literature, and History.
- We missed it, but on Thursday the American Constitution Society held the session, Can New Histories of Reconstruction Transform the Constitution? with Khiara M. Bridges, Aderson François, Olatunde Johnson, Martha S. Jones, Osagie Obasogie, and Farah Peterson.
- "The Supreme Court of Ohio announces the development of a new exhibit, Women in the Law, which celebrates the trailblazing contributions of women to Ohio’s legal history" (Court News Ohio).
- The Florida Supreme Court Historical Society invites judges, lawyers, law professors, and other citizens to serve on its board of trustees.
- UMass Law Professor Faisal Chaudhry spoke on his book, South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Towards a Historical Ontology of the Law at the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Oxford and at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (UMass Law).
- A (paywalled) review of Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South (Basic Books) by Kathryn Schumaker, University of Sydney (WSJ).
- Here's the CFP for the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in April 2026 in Philadelphia.
- This year's Summer Civic Institute of the Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University will be devoted to the Declaration of Independence.
- ICYMI: For the legal history of Dorset, be sure to stop in at the Shire Hall Museum in Dorchester (Dorset Echo). Two Fourth Circuit Judges visited Constitutional history class at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). David Corn on the War on History (Mother Jones). ProPublica on the origins of the income tax and Window + Door on the history of tariffs. Alexander Keyssar and Sean Wilentz quoted on the SAVE Act (Election Law Blog).
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