- Over at Nursing Clio, Kylie Smith (Emory University) brings history to bear on "RFK’s ideas about 'wellness farms' for young people."
- The next online meeting of the Environment, Law, and History Global Workshop will take place on May 16 at 12 noon UTC. Sara Limao Papa, a doctoral student at Goethe University Frankfurt, will present "The Pathways of the People: Access to Water in 18th-Century Maranhão and Bahia." Tamar Herzog, Harvard University, will comment. (More and h/t: H-Law).
- HLS's notice of A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled by Alex Green, a visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (Harvard Law Today).
- Throughout this week, we've mentioned legal-historical works that won prizes at the recent meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Another legal history--Marie-Amélie George's Family Matters--won an Honorable Mention, for the prestigious Frederick Jackson Turner award. For more on the book, check out the wonderful series of posts that Professor George wrote for the blog last fall. Congratulations, Professor George!
- Mary Ziegler, UC Davis, discusses her new book, Personhood, on the NPR show Here & Now.
- NYU Law's notice of its lateral hiring of Sarah Seo.
- Linda Colley has received Princeton University's Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
- The Organization of American Historians hails its new president, Annette Gordon-Reed.
- Gerard N. Magliocca on Vice Presidential Inaugural Addresses (Green Bag).
- Seth Barrett Tillman's reflections on civility and the debate over Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, forthcoming in the Mississippi Law Review.
- ICYMI: Chief Justice Roberts, a Buffalo native, will help celebrate 125th anniversary of the Western District of New York. Robert H. Jackson and John Lord O'Brien would be pleased! (WGRZ). originalism in a gun control case in the Fourth Circuit (Bloomberg Law).
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