#IndigenousPeoplesDay Recommended Reading

Featuring work by:

Daniel P. Aldrich urbanists.social/web/@dpaldrich
Lindsay Bailey
Nikhil Deb
Nadia Genshaft-Volz
Whitney Gravelle
Shannon Marcoux
Matiangai Sirleaf
Tamara Morgenthau
Rebecca Plumage
Aziz Rana
Marco Simons
Amanda WhiteEagle
John Fabian Witt

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Dylan Penningroth’s new landmark book will forever alter the way we think about and write the legal history of the U.S. — an astonishing, decades’-long research effort. Not to be missed:

'It is good news that an increasing number of conservatives soundly reject the free-market gospel . . . . But the kind of regime change that illiberal populists favor would leave ordinary Americans even more divided from one another than they are already.'

Excited to share this Article, coauthored with Maggie Mills and Thomas Poston:

War Reparations: The Case for Countermeasures

Forthcoming in Stanford Law Review (@StanLRev) in Spring 2024. You can read it now SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The American Society for Legal History has posted a preliminary draft of the program for the 2023 meeting. Hope to see you in Philadelphia in October! #LegalHistory #ASLH2023 aslh.net/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to the astounding José Argueta Funes, a fabulous addition to the stellar @berkeleylaw legal history faculty law.berkeley.edu/article/eight-…

In another post, I discuss historical context offered in essays by John Fabian Witt and Sam Lebovic. They paint a picture of progressive reformers in the 1920s struggling with how to 'inoculate the public against the influence of propaganda and demagogues.' knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-in…

Thrilled to be joining the wonderful faculty UCLA School of Law

This was so much fun. Thank you Isaac Chotiner for giving me the chance to explain why this time looks different (and indulging my historical forays…).

Um, summer . . . fun? 🙄

Today’s The New York Times article about Trump’s plans to concentrate power in the White House office brings something administrative law nerds have been worrying about for some time to a broader audience. But it does have some problems. (1/10) nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/…

In the flesh!

The “strategy … of anti-wokeness bears “remarkable similarities” to the “all-out war on integrationists” of the 1950s.

' ... No passage I've ever experienced — not the passage from girlhood into womanhood, or citizen to a stateless person — has continued to awe me like my passage from a teen suspicious of the US to the patriotic American I became. #Happy4thofJuly
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wild edit to Barnette

Mostly baseball games!

Supreme Court self-presentation as eternal and immortal watch. Left image from (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…), right image from yesterday's decision in Moore v. Harper.

“The defiant gambit of the 20th century’s most transformative president was not futile after all.” John Fabian Witt in this week’s Books and the Arts on court packing and the politics of SCOTUS thenation.com/article/politi…

Read this engaging essay by John Fabian Witt on L. Kalman's new book on FDR's Court-packing plan. Contrary to others, Kalman argues that the plan was a savvy political move that protected the New Deal's achievements.
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