- Salutations to the participants in the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History of the American Society for Legal History, which continues into next week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the direction of chairs John Fabian Witt and Michelle McKinley! For some other reasons to join the ASLH, consider its Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop, its Early Career Global Legal History Research Fellowships, and its just-announced Themed (Virtual) Legal History Workshops.
- Over at the LPE Blog, the symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States continues. The most recent post, by William Boyd, is here.
- The Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society is hosting a one-hour CLE panel, A Dive Into Unitary Executive Theory: Presidential Powers and Limitations, on June 24 from 3-4 CDT in person at the Minnesota Judicial Center. The panelists are Christine Chabot, Marquette University Law School; Heidi Kitrosser, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; and Nick Bednar, University of Minnesota Law School.
- We hear there might still be spaces at next months Rare Book School, devoted to Medieval Manuscript Fragments: Cataloging & Discoverability, with Lisa Fagin Davis.
- From Time's "Made by History": Tom Hanchett on "The History of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit—And How it Could Improve Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’"
- Via ESCH and H-Law, we have a CFP for the junior colloquium Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750-2000) at Sciences Po/Center for History in Paris on November 27-28, 2025.
- UC Irvine School of Humanities on its alumna, Stanford Law's Bernadette Meyler
- Modern Criminal Law Review had a symposium on Chloë Kennedy’s Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024). A podcast version is here.
- ICYMI: How Much Money Do Historians Make From Their Writing? (Contingent Magazine). Kate Hampton on a Montana antidiscrimination case from 1881 (Daily Montana). Manisha Sinha on Lincoln and the abolitionists (Unpopulist). John Yoo on Putting the Executive in "Unitary Executive" (Law & Liberty). St. Louis's Old Courthouse (Ladue News).
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