- JOTWELL has recently published a few reviews of interest. A post by Natsu Taylor Saito (Georgia State University) encourages readers to check out Angi Porter, POISON! An Africana Legal Studies Investigation into Enslaved Africans and Their Deadly Roots, 43 Law & Ineq. 1 (2025). Sara Mayeux (Vanderbilt Law) spotlights Joseph Blocher & Brandon L. Garrett, "Applying History as Law: The Role of Historical Facts in Implementing Constitutional Doctrine," 104 Tex. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026) (available at SSRN).
- At Balkinization: Dylan Penningroth (University of California, Berkeley) closes out the symposium on Before the Movement with two-part response (Part I, Part II). The symposium on Marital Privilege, by Serena Mayeri (Penn Carey Law), has also now concluded. All the posts, including Mayeri's response, are available here.
- YLS's notice of Akhil Reed Amar's Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920, which was the subject of the Rosenkranz Originalism Conference at Yale Law School (Yale Daily News).
- Selden's Sister has announced an undergraduate essay competition on women and legal history.
- Over at the LPEblog: Genevieve Lakier (University of Chicago Law) on "Title VI Turned Upside Down."
- The Brennan Center for Justice has listed its Historians’ Friend-of-the-Court Briefs from the Supreme Court’s 2024 Term.
- "The Australia Studies Institute is hosting Associate Professor Alecia Simmonds to deliver the 2025 Reese Memorial Lecture on her book Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law" at King's College London on November 3, 2025 from 18:00 to 20:00. More.
- On November 19, at 6:00 p.m. EST, the Supreme Court Historical Society, in partnership with the Irish American Judicial Institute, invites you to a special lecture at the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Sean Meehan discusses The Emerald Bench: The History of the Irish American Justices on the Supreme Court on November 19, at 6:00 p.m. at the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Vermont Chief Justice Jeffrey Amestoy discusses his book on most notorious crime, "the 1926 murder of Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company, in her home in Windsor" (VTDigger).
- More Jill Lepore: PBS News Hour; WYPR; Katie Couric.
- The lectures in America at 250: A History, co-taught by Joanne Freeman, David Blight, and Beverly Gage on the YaleCourses YouTube channel.
- The DC Circuit Historical Society has recently noted the exhibits in the Great Hall of the Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse.
- Brendan Shanahan discussed Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States 1865–1965 at Yale (Yale Daily News).
- ICYMI: Akhil Reed Amar on Lincoln's Lesson on Trump's Birthright Citizenship (Time). A Rare Draft of the Constitution Shows It as a Work in Progress (NYT). The Vermont Constitution (State Court Report). Bowdoin's Role in the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 and the U.S. Constitution of 1787 (mass.gov). The Supreme Court Has Always Been This Bad (Nation).
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