- A few recent posts of interest from over at JOTWELL: Eliot Tracz (New England Law) shines a spotlight on Jill Elaine Hasday's We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (2025); Sara Mayeux (Vanderbilt Law) admiringly reviews Julia Rudolph's "William Blackstone, Family Man: New Contexts in Gender, Jurisprudence, and Jamaica," which recently appeared in the Law & History Review.
- Job alert: "The Department of History, Politics, and Law at Nazareth University of Rochester invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track faculty position in Legal Studies." More. (HT: H-Net.)
- Via the Nation: John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reviews Niko Bowie and Daphne Renan's Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People. Professor Witt concludes, "Our political crisis would be much simpler if Bowie and Renan were right and the court had disabled our democratic politics. The harder truth is that our democratic politics have built and enabled the court."
- Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, discusses her new book, Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of Medieval Survivor (PUP).
- Over at Opinio Juris, a symposium is under way on Gregory S. Gordon’s Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice (University of Virginia Press, 2025).
- A notice of Mary Mitchell's new book, Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania (University of Chicago Press) (NJIT).
- The New York State Archives will host a symposium at the Cultural Education Center in Albany, on April 20, 2027 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the New York State Constitution of 1777 (New York Almanack).
- In the first episode of the New York Review of Books podcast, Endgame with Fintan O’Toole, the host interviews Annette Gordon-Reed (NYRB).
- Jack Rakove discusses "constitutional failure" in on the Ballpark, a podcast of LSE's Phelan United States Centre
- A brief notice of Beth Lew-Williams's Stulman Lecture, “John Doe Chinaman: Chinese Life Under American Racial Law" (JHU History).
- The ACLU has launched The People’s Archive, "a dynamic digital museum that combines photography, audio, print, and video chronicling the organization’s key civil rights and civil liberties milestones throughout its over 100-year history" (ACLU).
- On Saturday, October 24, 2026, "Illness and Influence: The Battle over Joseph Crosby's Estate," a reenactment of a Washington, Arkansas, court case from 1856 will take place at 1836 Hempstead County Courthouse (TXK Today).
- "Visitors had the chance to experience a piece of Kansas history [last] Saturday as Constitution Hall Topeka hosted an event commemorating the 1855 Topeka Constitutional Convention" (KSNT).
- The American Historical Association has endorsed "the Smithsonian Integrity and Historical Independence Act of 2026, introduced by Reps. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), and Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) in response to ongoing attacks on the Smithsonian by the Trump administration (AHA).
- China’s Ministry of Education has recognized Michael Ng, Hong Kong University, with a Popular Science Publication Award for Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997) (Cambridge University Press). It argues that "the territory’s celebrated freedom of speech and judicial independence are not inherited British legal traditions but products of specific historical circumstances shaped by British policies towards China" (HKU Lead).
- ICYMI: "At Harvard Law School’s VthePeople conference, Jill Lepore recounted the lost history of constitutional and political conventions in the U.S." (Harvard Law Today). Mark David Hall asks What Does "History and Tradition" Require? in Establishment Clause cases (Law & Liberty). Jury Trial, Legal Tradition, and Unexpected Lessons from the History of the Mongol Empire (Middle Templar). The 1946 Law That Put America’s Atomic Bombs Under Civilian Control (History).
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