- Congratulations to Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School, upon the awarding to her of the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society for The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms!
- Laura F. Edwards, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, will deliver three lectures on the theme “The Legal Geography of the Civil War Era and Its Lasting Legacy,” as the 2025 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series at Penn State University on October 23-25.
- A notice of Emma Brush, a legal historian recently appointed Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College (Amherst Student).
- A symposium on John Fabian Witt's Radical Fund is underway over at Balkinization. So far the contributors have been Michelle Adams, Risa Goluboff, and Willy Forbath.
- Evan D. Bernick, Northern Illinois University College of Law, has posted his review of Born Equal by Akhil Amar, Yale Law School.
- Jane Manners's historian's amicus brief for the Brennan Center in Grundmann v. Trump (D.C. Cir.), involving the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss Susan Tsui Grundmann's challenge to her removal from the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
- “The Origins of the Major Questions Doctrine,” which Rachel Rothschild, Michigan Law, presented at last year's annual meeting of the ASLH, has been selected "one of the top 10 environmental law papers published in 2024" (Michigan Law).
- In Time's "Made by History" series: If the Supreme Court Forgets the Past; When the Government was Re-Segregated.
- ICYMI: Still more Lepore: Arts Fuse. Justice Amy Coney Barrett on originalism (and more) (C-SPAN). Marcus Rediker reviews The Zorg by Siddharth Kara (NYT).
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