Roberts, CJ, to Lecture on Hughes, CJ

Charles Evans Hughes et al. ( LC ) The Historical Society of the New York Courts announces Nominated from New York: Charles Evans Hughes: Ch...

Goelzhauser on "Graveyard Dissents on the Burger Court"

In plenty of time for Halloween, Greg Goelzhauser, Utah State University, Political Science , has posted Graveyard Dissents on the Burger Co...

Sunday Book Roundup

In Dissent,  Amy Dru Stanley reviews Alex Gourevitch's From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in th...

An Oral History of an African American JAG (1943-46)

We recently noticed Major Dan Dalrymple’s An Extraordinary Life Span: A Summary and Analysis of an Oral History of the Honorable William A. ...

Morrison v. Olsen: The Oral Argument Reenacted

[We have the following announcement of a reenactment of the oral argument in Morrison v. Olson .  Early arrivers for the ASLH meeting take s...

Sunday Book Roundup

From The Dallas Morning News , there's a review of Will Haywood's Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That...

Weekend Roundup

Adam Goodman (University of Southern California) has compiled a list of all the events marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the ...

Gudridge on Holmes and Moore v. Dempsey

Patrick Gudridge, University of Miami School of Law , has posted Past Present , an essay on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Moore v. Demps...

Cushman on the Docket Books of the Late Hughes Court

We’ve previously noted the analysis by Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law School , of the docket books of the US Supreme Court during the early ...

Mendenhall on Holmes, Emerson and Pragmatism

Allen Mendenhall, Auburn University , has posted Pragmatism on the Shoulders of Emerson: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s Jurisprudence as a ...

Sunday Book Roundup

This week, H-Net posted a review of Chanelle N. Rose's The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist ...

Balganesh on "The Questionable Origins of the Copyright Infringement Analysis"

Shyamkrishna Balganesh (University of Pennsylvania Law School) has posted " The Questionable Origins of the Copyright Infringement Anal...

Cushman on the Hughes Court Docket Books, 1929-33

The Hughes Court (1930-31) ( LC ) Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law School , has posted The Hughes Court Docket Books: The Early Terms, 1929-193...

Sunday Book Roundup

The New Rambler  has a review of The Constitution: An Introduction  by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen (Basic). "Written with ...

Kessler on Freedman's Bureau Courts and Adversarialism

We've just noticed that the ASLH's website for the 2015 annual meeting in Washington includes a link to a paper circulated in advanc...

Note: Walter Gellhorn on Crowell v. Benson

Some time ago, I reported on Crowell v. Benson , 285 U.S. 22 (1932), as viewed from the docket books of Justices Pierce Butler and Owen Rob...

Tillman, "Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship"

Seth Barrett Tillman (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) has posted " Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship ."...

Tyler on History and the Fed Courts Canon

Amanda L. Tyler, University of California, Berkeley School of Law , has posted Assessing the Role of History in the Federal Courts Canon: A ...

Weekend Roundup

Amici, the podcast series of nycourts.gov, has an interview with Marilyn Marcus , executive director of the Historical Society of the New ...

RFP: A History of the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

[We have the following Request for Proposals for a "book on the history of the creation and the first 25 years of the U.S. Court of App...