- Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan Law School, has been chosen to receive the 2025–2026 Pace Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award for scholarship that “sits at the intersection of environmental law, history, and policy,” including Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and The Origins of the Major Questions Doctrine.
“Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect,” a documentary on the life and career of Thurgood Marshall, premiers Tuesday, September 9, 2025, on PBS. The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago hosts and preview and discussion on August 21 (WTTW)
Thurgood Marshall, assisted by Wife and Family (LC)
- "David Carrillo, executive director of UC Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center, will become editor-in-chief of California Legal History in 2026" (UC Berkeley Law).
- From the online companion to the California Law Review: Michael Bannerjee (UC Berkeley) on "What Harvard’s Lawsuit Should Have Said."
- Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law School, and John Harrison, University of Virginia School of Law discuss Professor Primus’s The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power. "Their conversation traces how this fundamental disagreement has shaped key moments in American constitutional history, from the Founding Era to the New Deal, and why the debate remains unsettled today" (National Constitution Center). Also on YouTube.
- Also: the first-rate Balkinization symposium on Professor Primus's Oldest Constitutional Question: is now complete.
- Stefan Kadelbach on the "Frankfurt Documents" and the birth of a new constitutional order for Germany in 1948 (Goethe-Universität).
- Have you browsed that online collection of legal history papers by YLS students lately?
- Jill Lepore will discuss her forthcoming book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, at Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego on Sunday, September 7, 2025 from 4 PM to 5:30 PM
- The district court opinion in that lawsuit over the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants. The American Historical Association's update. An update on new awards (NYT).
- If you happen to be in Hyde Park, NY, on August 13, you can take in a showing of William Randolph Hearst's authoritarian fantasy from March 1933, Gabriel over the White House, at the FDR Library and Museum.
- Lawbook Exchange 's August list of Scholarly Law and Legal History.
- Time's Made by History: The History of How the Car Seat Made American Kids Safer by Gary Scales.
- ICYMI: The Adam Liptak column behind all those skeets: As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy (NYT). David Blight asks, What If History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance? (New Republic/Bunk). Eric Segall asks How the Hell To Teach Constitutional Law in 2025? (Many of his questions involve history) (Dorf on Law). NAACP LDF's historical timeline on the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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