- The Library of Congress will observe Constitution Day with a program on William Howard Taft, featuring Kevin J. Burns, assistant professor of political science and economics at Christendom College, who will draw upon his book, William Howard Taft’s Constitutional Progressivism (University Press of Kansas, 2021). Colleen Shogan, the 11th Archivist of the United States, and John Bridgeland, co-founder and CEO of “More Perfect," will also discuss Hellen ("Nellie) Taft, his wife. Friday, Sept. 18, 2 – 5 p.m. in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ-119.
- Meghan Woolley, an assistant professor of history at Idaho State University, has been awarded the A.W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She will spend this academic year at Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute where she will focus on her first book project, tentatively titled "The Heart of Law: Friendship and Emotions in the Early Common Law." It will examine “the role of emotions within medieval law, and she aims to look at the long history of how emotions such as love, anger, and sadness were incorporated into the common law in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England to shape a legal system as it was being developed.”
- The Association of Law and Political Economy has issued a call for papers for its next annual meeting, to be held in Boston, MA, June 9-10, 2027.
- ICYMI: Dennis Wieboldt on Adjudicating “History and Tradition” (Law & Liberty). Brown University remembers Gordon Wood (BDH). John McLaren, founding dean of the University of Calgary Faculty of Law (U Calgary).
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