- The University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative (SDRI) has put together an amazing resource on state constitutions, the 50 Constitutions project, which it continues to update. Of particular interest: the "Tracking Constitutional Change" feature. This feature "allow[s] users to see how [constitutions] have taken shape over time and to learn about important historical moments." Nine states so far "have full Tracking Constitutional Change capabilities," including the just-added Pennsylvania. SDRI reports that "[m]ore states will be added in the coming year."
- Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will present in the Monday Seminar of the Department of History of Johns Hopkins University on September 22, from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm.
Elin Hofverberg on "110 Years of the Norwegian Castbergian Child Laws" (In Custodia Legis).
Children Gathering Wildflowers above Trondhjem (LC)
- Zachary S. Price, UC San Francisco Law, on “Trumpian Impoundments in Historical Perspective” (SLR).
- "Durham Cathedral has unveiled a new exhibition featuring three versions of Magna Carta, the historical charter that first established the Rule of Law" (Palatinate).
- The historian of administrative state Joy Milligan has moved from Virginia Law to UC Berkeley Law (UC Berkeley Law).
- Justice Stephen Breyer, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, and Michael Klarman on taking the bar--or not (Harvard Law Today).
- Thanks to Liz Sepper (UT-Austin), the talk of law professor Bluesky is the painting "Supreme Court Beach." Jay Willis at "Balls & Strikes" did a deep dive on the painting's history -- including which former Justice owns the original. [KMT]
- The latest "SCOTUS Scoop" from the Supreme Court Historical Society is Still at Work: How the Justices Spend Their Summer Months. But we thought they were at the beach!
- For over 30 years, Daytonites "have put on a play every July using the trial transcript" form the Scope Monkey Trial. "Destiny in Dayton" explains "the complexities of the town captured by history" (Akron Legal News). Also, the ABAJ looks "back at the Scopes trial 100 years later."
- Upcoming book talks in the America's Town Hall series of the National Constitution Center include Akhil Reed Amar on Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 (September 16) and Eric Foner on Our Fragile Freedoms (September 24).
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