- Congratulations to Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania), who received the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.
- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's notice of Katrina Jagodinsky's NEH grant to "reveal [the] untold history of habeas corpus" (Nebraska Today).
- Overt at Jotwell, Marin Levy reviews Kevin Arlyck's The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789–1825 (2025).
- "Reclaiming the Founders’ Frameworks": Stanford Law's notice of Jud Campbell.
- We've learned of several historians' briefs in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. This one is by Jed H. Shugerman and Evan Bernick, and this one, prepared in cooperation with the Brennan Center for Justice, is by Martha S. Jones and Kate Masur. Eric Muller's brief describes the recognition of the birthright citizenship of the children of interned Japanese parents without allegiance to the United States. Keith Whittington's brief includes the heading, "Revisionist History Cannot Hold Water." And the Cato Institute weighs in here.
- A recording, with a very substantial timeline, of the American Historical Association's congressional briefing on the history of vaccines, with Elena Conis, David Oshinsky, and former ASLH president Michael Willrich.
- “The Rule of Law and the Common Good,” a conference on March 12 and 13 at Boston College, "will explore the synergy between legal theory and Catholic social thought."
- "A short piece for lay readers on Youngstown" by William Baude, University of Chicago Law.
- Mary Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall, the former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, will lecture on Magna Carta on Friday, April 24, at Soulton Hall, Shropshire (Star).
- The Historical Society of Michigan is hosting the virtual event The 1962 Michigan Constitutional Convention: Policy, Politics, and Citizen Engagement, with Doug Brook and Aria Dwoskin, on Tuesday, March 3, at 12:00 p.m. Free for members; $7 for everyone else.
- ICYMI: A report of a panel on the New Hampshire Constitution of 1776, with Lorianne Updike Schulzke (Concord Monitor). The New York State Bar Association notes its sesquicentennial (NYSBA). Eric Segall argues that "If 'It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory,' Originalism Loses" (Dorf). Robert Morton Duncan, the first Black justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (CNO).
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