Karen Tani

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ASLH Election Results

Dec 10, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

We have been (slowly) recapping the news announced at this year's meeting of the American Society for Legal History. This post reports election results. Incoming Board Members: Sally Hadden (Western Michigan University), Kate Masur (Northwestern University), Kim Welch (Vanderbilt University), Jane Manners (Temple Beasley School of Law), and Will Smiley (University of New Hampshire). Incoming Nominating Committee Members: Rohit De (Yale University) and Alison LaCroix (University of Chicago Law).
Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme

Nov 10, 2024 | harvardlawreview.org | Karen Tani

“Dead, dead, dead.” This quote might have referred to any number of apparent casualties of the 2023 Supreme Court Term — from the Court’s decades-old approach to reviewing agency action (“Chevron deference”), to federal prosecutors’ chances of holding former President Donald J. Trump accountable for alleged interference with the 2020 presidential election, to the billionaire Sackler family’s bold attempt to use a corporate bankruptcy settlement to finalize their liability for the opioid crisis.
Call for Applications: Constitutional Accountability Center Scholar-in-Residence program 2025-26

Nov 6, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

Via the Constitutional Accountability Center ("a nonprofit, public interest law firm and think tank dedicated to making real the progressive promise of our Constitution’s text, history, and values"), we have the following posting:CAC invites applications for its 2025-2026 Scholar-in-Residence program.
AHA Katz prize to Yannakakis for "Since Time Immemorial"

Oct 22, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

The American Historical Association has announced its 2024 Prize Winners, and we were pleased to see legal historian Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University) named as winner of the Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history for Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico (Duke University Press, 2023). Congratulations to Professor Yannakakis!-- Karen Tani
Two AHA book prizes to Penningroth for "Before the Movement"

Oct 22, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

The American Historical Association has announced its 2024 Prize Winners, and we were pleased to see that legal historian Dylan C. Penningroth (University of California, Berkeley) was a two-time winner. Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023) won the Beveridge Family Prize in the history of the US, Latin America, or Canada since 1492 and also the Littleton-Griswold Prize in US Law and Society. Congratulations to Professor Penningroth!-- Karen Tani
Legal History Blog

Sep 14, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

Virginia Law Weekly has published a report of “Originalism 101,” a conversation between with Lawrence Solum and Charles Barzun on "the origins of originalism, its variations, its merits and flaws, and its impact on judicial decision-making." The Harvard Crimson puts fifteen questions to former ASLH president Bruce Mann. Over at JOTWELL, Sara Mayeux (Vanderbilt Law) has posted an admiring review of Sean Vanatta's Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control (2024).
Schafer on the Meaning of Press Freedom at the Founding

Aug 20, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

Matthew Schafer (Fordham University School of Law) has posted "'The Press': A Response to Professor Volokh." The abstract: For more than a decade, Professor Eugene Volokh’s article—Freedom For The Press As An Industry, Or For The Press As A Technology? From The Framing To Today—has been recognized as the authoritative work on the meaning of press freedom at the Founding.
Legal History Blog

Aug 10, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

Some JOTWELL items of interest: Ilya Somin reviews David Pozen's The Constitution of the War on Drugs; Scott Cummings reviews Ann Southworth's Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending (2023); Jedidiah Kroncke reviews J. Benton Heath's "Economic Sanctions as Legal Ordering," forthcoming in the Michigan Journal of International Law. ICYMI: Justin Simard on the Citing Slavery Project (Mississippi Free Press). James H.
CFP: Interdisciplinarity at AALS

Jul 25, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

In connection with the upcoming annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools [open to law school faculty] we have the following call for papers:AALS Section on Scholarship - Call For Papers, January 2025 AALS Annual Meeting"Interdisciplinarity"There was a time when law was thought to be a self-contained system. Conceptual analysis, it was believed, sufficed for legal progress. Generations of experience have taught us that this can no longer be the case.
Lanham on "How W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Antiwar Movement Reimagined Civil Rights and the Laws of War and Peace"

Jul 8, 2024 | legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com | Karen Tani

Andrew Lanham (University of Houston Law Center) has posted "How W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Antiwar Movement Reimagined Civil Rights and the Laws of War and Peace." The article appears in Volume 99 of the Washington Law Review (2024).