- The Chicago-Kent Law Review will host the virtual symposium, Who Belongs? The Contested History of Birthright Citizenship, on Friday, October 16, 2026 to “situate[] the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Trump v. Barbara within the nation's long history of battles over birthright citizenship.” The panelists are Evan Bernick, Eladio Bobadilla, Erin Delaney, Sam Erman, Lucien Ferguson, Paul Gowder, Anthony Michael-Kreis, Mark Rosen, Rachel Rosenbloom, Carolyn Shapiro, Christopher Schmidt, and Allison Brownell Tirres.
- Kim Christian Priemel's review of Jessica Trisko Darden's The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes (Yale University Press, 2026) (Lawfare).
- Alexandre Arnold has published Procedure, machines, and the transformation of American law: a review essay [of Kellen R. Funk's Law’s Machinery: Reforming the Craft of Lawyering in America’s Industrial Age] in the AJLH.
- An interview of Tracy Thomas about her new book, The First Woman Judge: The Life and Legacy of Florence Allen.
- The ASLH has posted on its website its letter on the closure of San Francisco and Chicago branches of the National Archives.
- Manav Kapur, University of Texas at Austin, has won the 2025 Sardar Patel Award of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia for his dissertation, “Bounding Nations, Making Citizens: Partition, Property, and Belonging in Postcolonial South Asia.” On the awards ceremony: here.
- "[T]he National Constitution Center and the Oklahoma History Center Museum are holding] a full-day professional development workshop exploring the history of tribal sovereignty through constitutional history and primary-source inquiry. . . . on Saturday, October 24, from 10:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Oklahoma History Center Museum in Oklahoma City" (EINnews).
- A recording of the Brennan Center/ABA panel on "how lawyers and historians can work together to counter originalist arguments in the courts," with Tom Wolf, Sam Breidbart, Laura Edwards, and Serena Mayeri, moderated by Stephen Wermiel, is here.
- Scott Shapiro on Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Friend and Enemy (Völkerrechtspodcast).
- An interview of Dunstan Speight on Lincoln’s Inn Library (SCC Times).
Read more at: https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2026/09/28/a-custodian-of-legal-history-dunstan-speight-on-lincolns-inn-library/
- On October 14, 2026, from 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M., the Georgetown Law Library will hold a panel discussion to launch the Family Separation Archive, collected by the American Immigration Council and donated to the law library a year ago. It documents the separation of minors from their parents or guardians by immigration officials during the first Trump administration and will be fully searchable through DigitalGeorgetown.
- ICYMI: Mary Genevieve Gaudron, the first woman judge on the High Court of Australia (The Conversation). Restoring the Native American provisions of Maine's Constitution redacted since 1876 (Bates College). ASLH President (and former LHBlogger) Mitra Sharafi on poison, cremation and the forensic history of colonial Bengal (Daily Star).
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