- Sarah White, an assistant professor at the University of Nottingham School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious £100,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into “legal reasoning, disputes and wills in 12th- and 13th-century England. Drawing on extensive archival research, she has examined how medieval lawyers and litigants constructed arguments, interpreted procedural rules and navigated uncertainty when resolving disputes.” More.
- Legal historians of the future: "Department of Justice news releases and court filings from the January 6 prosecutions" are (or at least, at this writing, were) preserved at the January 6 Memory Project "after most were removed from justice.gov."
- Nico Perrino, the executive vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, has published Free Speech Generation: The Civil Libertarians Who Saved the First Amendment and Transformed America (Simon & Schuster).
- Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia School of Law, and Jack Goldsmith discuss Nelson's working paper, “Against the Dictatorial Presidency.” Topics include "the modern history of unitary executive theory, Nelson’s criticisms of the theory in Slaughter, the relevance of the Necessary and Proper Clause, and the dangers of Slaughter, with special focus on the civil service" (Executive Function).
- Andrew Wender Cohen, Syracuse University, discusses his new book, Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century America, on The Gilded Age and Progressive Era podcast.
- Duke University’s Office of the Provost and the Provost’s Initiative on Pluralism, Free Inquiry, and Belonging convened the roundtable “Justice and the Rule of Law: The Case of Constitutional Rights and Judicial Interpretation.” It was moderated by Kerry Abrams, Duke Law, and included Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., Duke Divinity School; Jeanette Doran, John Locke Foundation, Thavolia Glymph, Duke History Department, and John Hood, John William Pope Foundation. The transcript is here.
- Michael Vorenberg, Brown University, will present "Lincoln's Peace: Struggling to Find the End of a War" at 7 p.m. November 9 in the Benes Rooms of Ohio Wesleyan's Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware, Ohio (OWU).
- From Commonplace: "Bad Maps, Courtroom Clashes, and Agrarian Life in 17th-Century New England," by Nathan Braccio (Clark University).
- ICYMI: Where the 1215 Magna Carta Originals Are Kept and How Rare Editions Still Emerge (Colin Rugg News).
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