- Over at Balkinization: a symposium has begun on Marital Privilege, by Serena Mayeri (Penn Carey Law).
- Over at Notice & Comment: a symposium has begun on Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America, by Peter Conti-Brown & Sean Vanatta.
- What an interesting way to encourage student interest in legal historical research! American Legal Histories is an exhibit at the Lillian Goldman Law Library of sources used in Yale University’s historical collections by students in YLS’s American Legal History course, “each week in class and over the semester in their final research papers. The exhibit highlights a document chosen by each student from their research in primary source collections, online and in person, from Yale and elsewhere.
- The Supreme Court Historical Society, the White House Historical Association, and the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, hosts the 2025 National Heritage Lecture on Thursday, October 9, at 6:00 PM at historic Decatur House. Douglas Brinkley will lecture on Presidential Evolution: A History of Executive Orders Over 47 Presidencies.
- Jill Lepore is appearing on various podcasts, including Dahlia Lithwick's Amicus and Kara Shwisher's On on her new book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Norton). The WaPo review is here.
- NYU Law's notice on Sarah Seo (NYU).
- Bob Bauer, Richard Pildes and Samuel Issacharoff have launched the NYU Law Democracy Project, which seeks to engage,"along many dimensions and from diverse ideological perspectives," the challenge of the "dissatisfaction with democratic government [that] has been pervasive for the last decade throughout the West."
- On the back end of the latest episode of Strict Scrutiny, hosts Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw speak with Justin Driver (Yale Law) about The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education.
- You can always check in on the most recent, digitally published, and open-access articles and book reviews in Law and History Review at its First View page at the Cambridge University Press.
- Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect is now streaming on PBS.
- The Supreme Court Historical Society's recording of John Q. Barrett's lecture, “Away Without Leave but Back in Washington, Briefly: Nazi Prosecutor Justice Robert H. Jackson on the Road to Nuremberg, September 1945,” is now available on the Society's YouTube site.
- Gerard Magliocca, the winner of the Erwin N. Griswold Prize of the Supreme Court Historical Society, will discuss his new book Washington’s Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington at the Supreme Court of the United States on September 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM at the Supreme Court of the United States.
- My Georgetown Law colleagues Marty Lederman and John Mikhail's ongoing series of posts on birthright citizenship are on Just Security. DRE
- Lawbook Exchange's September 2025 list of Scholarly Law and Legal History is here.
- We are not the first to note the irony that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Human Rights Violator Law Division is advertising for a historian. Julia Rose Kraut's discussion of the history of ideological exclusion and deportation suggests that they been at it for a while (Unsung History).
- ICYMI: American Historical Association Sends Letter in Support of the State Historical Society of Iowa Research Center (AHA). A century later, the gunshots from the historic Ossian Sweet house still echo (Detroit Free Press).
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