Weekend Roundup

In the New Republic: Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz on the place where the meat industry meets anti-bestiality laws,......

Pfander on Common Law Qualified Immunity

James E. Pfander, Northwestern University School of Law, has posted Zones of Discretion at Common Law:Scott Keller argues......

The Life & Legacy of John Jay

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]John Jay (NYPL)The John Jay Papers Project, Columbia University Libraries,......

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Martha S. Jones published an op-ed in WaPo and was prominently quoted in an NYT story this week about the discovery that......

Martin's "Cherokee Supreme Court"

 J. Matthew Martin, an Administrative Law Judge with the Social Security Administration who for over a decade served......

Assistant to the Executive Director at NJCHS

[We have the following job announcement.  DRE]Assistant to the Executive Director for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical......

Weekend Roundup

From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Julio Capó Jr. (Florida International University) and Melba Pearson......

Concepcion on Waite and Blatchford

Cattleya M. Concepcion, Head of Reference, Georgetown Law Library, has posted Happy Birthday, My Dear Chief Justice: Three......

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In the op-ed pages of the New York Times: John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) writes about how courts have historically......

Gerangelos on Dixon, J., and Australian Nationhood

Peter Gerangelos, University of Sydney Law School, has posted Sir Owen Dixon and the Concept of 'Nationhood' as a Source......

Weekend Roundup

Julia Rose Kraut, the Judith S. Kaye Fellow for the Historical Society of the New York Courts, will speak on her book Threat......

Marble Palace Day

Credit: LCWe don't usually have "on this date" posts, but, with a hat tip to the Supreme Court Historical Society, here's......

Sackar on Lord Devlin

Out this month by Justice John Sackar (Supreme Court of New South Wales) is Lord Devlin with Hart Publishing. From......

Moore on Anti-Federalists and Implementing Article III

Tyler Moore, a 2011 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Notre Dame,......

Behrens on the Absent Justice Matthews

Jennifer L. Behrens, J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke Law, has posted The Empty Chair: Reflections on an Absent Justice,......

Abrams on the Mail Fraud Statutes

Norman Abrams, UCLA Law School, has posted Uncovered: The Legislative Histories of the Early Mail Fraud Statutes:The federal......