- Over at Balkinization, an interesting symposium on David Pozen‘s The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Oxford University Press, 2024) has wrapped up. This response by Pozen (Columbia Law) links to the various contributions, including by legal historian Shaun Ossei-Owusu (Penn Law).
- Edward A. Purcell, New York Law School, looks back to Charles Evans Hughes’s Supreme Court of the United States for inspiration on how Chief Justices can induce the resignations of Associate Justices (The Hill).
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Jus Gentium is out with a special issue (9:2), The Historicization of International Law and its Limits,
organized by Jean d’Aspremont and Thomas Kleinlein. It includes the
article “Lather, Rinse, Repeat: The Historical Returns of International
Law,” by Carl Landauer.
- “On May 16, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision, the National Archives in Washington, DC, hosted a panel discussion on the lasting impact of the historic legal decision.” The panel included Sheryll D. Cashin, Georgetown Law; Randall L. Kennedy, of Harvard Law School; and Michael K. Powell, who moderated. More.
- Also, “Meet all the families behind the 5 school cases that swayed the Supreme Court” (LA School Report).
- “Dr. John Kirk, George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at UA Little Rock, and the students in his fall 2023 Seminar in Public History class, a capstone course that focuses on collaborative research for students who are earning a Master of Arts in public history, have received the Lucille Westbrook Award from the Arkansas Historical Association” for the paper “Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: The Arkansas Cases of the Bone Brothers, 1938-1940.” More.
- The program for the 2024 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association is now online.
- ICYMI: Hardeep Dhillon on The Immigration Act of 1924 (Penn Today). “The ‘Originalist’ Justices Keep Getting History Spectacularly Wrong” (Balls & Strikes). That “Appeal to Heaven” flag (AP; MSNBC).
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