- The University of Pennsylvania digital history site, Building Inequality: Mapping the spatial and racial inequalities of FHA Section 608 rental housing, 1942-1950, is well worth a visit.
- We have updated information on that inaugural session of "Historicising Jurisprudence," a first-book symposium co-sponsored by the Selden Society and the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, and co-hosted and co-organised by Maks Del Mar and Michael Lobban. It will be held on September 30, and devoted to Natasha Wheatley's The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton UP, 2023). Registration and more information is here.
- Sara Butler, Ohio State University, discusses her book, Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England (2015) on the Medievialists.net podcast.
- The Balkinization symposium continues on Serena Mayeri's Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law (Yale University Press, 2025). Recent contributions include reflections by Kris Collins and Doug NeJaime.
- A recording of Dylan Penningroth's talk on his book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights at The City Club Forum (ideastream).
- Over at the Jackson List: John Q. Barrett on the appointment of Harold Burton to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The historian Joan Wallach Scott recalls the firing of her father, a high school teacher in New York City, during the McCarthy Era (Boston Review).
- A concurring opinion in Alan Dershowitz v. CNN cited Samantha Barbas's article, “New York Times v. Sullivan: Perspectives from History,” to provide historical context for the ongoing debate over defamation law (Iowa Law).
- On Thursday evening, Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School, and Michael Klarman, Harvard Law School, debated “Is There a Constitutional Crisis? How Would We Know?” at Colgate University.
- Jill Lepore's We the People had a substantial presence on the internet this week. Professor Lepore's op-ed in the NYT. Reviews in The Guardian and the LA Times. Her argument that originalism "killed" the Constitution in The Atlantic; to which the National Review dissents.
- ICYMI: The Desegregation of Local 53 in New Orleans (1969) (BlackPast). The 18th-century legal case that changed the face of music copyright law (WIPO). John Yoo on the long history of presidential discretion (Law & Liberty). The Heritage Foundation's Guide to the Constitution. The entire Constitution is on display for the first time in US history (Smithsonian; WTOP; USA9). The Georgia Historical Society displayed its own rare copy, once owned by the Georgia’s signer Abraham Baldwin (TOC11).
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