SHFG to Host Roundtable on 1965 Immigration Act

[We're moving this up, as the lecture is this Thursday.]   [Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.] The Society for History in ...

Weekend Roundup

It was a pleasure to see Catherine Fisk, University California Irvine School of Law , workshop some draft chapters from her forthcoming book...

Samito on Military Service, Citizenship and the Irish during the Civil War

Christian G. Samito has posted Thomas F. Meagher, Patrick R. Guiney, and the Meaning of the Civil War for Irish America: The Questions of N...

Sunday Book Roundup

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

Johnson on Chae Chan Ping

Kit Johnson, University of Oklahoma College of Law , has posted Chae Chan Ping at 125: An Introduction , Oklahoma Law Review 68 (2015): In...

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 ...

Finkelman on "Citizenship and the Constitution"

An op-ed by Paul Finkelman , Citizenship and the Constitution: A Legal History Lesson for Our Times , is out today in the Huffington Post .

Sunday Book Roundup

Ian Klaus's Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds and the Rise of Modern Finance  (Yale University Press) is reviewed on H-Net....

Sunday Book Roundup

The Federal Lawyer  has a new issue, with several book reviews of note. Benjamin H. Barton's Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of...

Wadhia on the History of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases

New from New York University Press: Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases (June 2015), by Shoba Siv...

Price on "Health Security" and Mentally Ill Immmigrants

Polly J. Price, Emory University School of Law , has posted Infecting the Body Politic: Observations on Health Security and the 'Undesi...

Soucek on the Cold War and the 1965 Immigration Act

Brian Soucek, University of California, Davis School of Law, has posted The Last Preference: Refugees and the 1965 Immigration Act which i...

Population Control, Immigration, and Environmentalism

Population controllers are some of the most fascinating characters to appear in After Roe . Some of these activists, like former Columbia st...

Sunday Book Roundup

Greetings from The Terrace at the University of Wisconsin, Madison--quite possibly the happiest place to finish up a Sunday Book Roundup aft...

Weekend Roundup

From the Chronicle of Higher Education : Christopher Loss (Vanderbilt University) places our current woes in context. "[F]aculty work...

Sunday Book Roundup

Here's a collection of book reviews for this weekend: Tm Weiner's book, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon  (Ho...

Rice on "Seven Years a Citizen"

Daniel B. Rice , a recent graduate of the Duke University School of Law , has posted The Riddle of Ruth Bryan Owen . Ruth Bryan Owen ( Credi...

Sunday Book Roundup

With recent events in mind, The New York Times  has put together an annotated reading list for " Reading About the Confederacy ." ...

New Release: Field and Syrett, eds., "Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present"

New from New York University Press: Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present , edited b y Corinne T. Field (University of Virginia...

Berger on Birthright Citizenship

Bethany Berger, University of Connecticut School of Law , has posted Birthright Citizenship on Trial: Elk v. Wilkins and United States v. Wo...