Okay, at long last, the big Law & Society Review news! We now accept (a) additional abstracts written in languages other than English and (b) translated versions of accepted or published LSR articles! Law and Society Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press - Law

Don’t miss this from Dra. Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez!

San Francisco State University’s Museum Studies Program, offers an exciting opportunity for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Museum Studies, beginning August 2025. indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=1…

ICYMI last week: Our really big news at LSR is we now welcome authors to include translations of their work (abstract and/or full paper) when writing about groups or places for which/whom English is not the primary language. Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press - Law Law and Society

If you are around tomorrow, please join us at Stanford Center for Law and History Stanford Law School, where I'll be workshopping my article "Students for Fair Admission and the Memory Wars.

On Saturday, October 26, 2024, American Society for Legal History (Legal History Blog) President Barbara Welke awarded Professor David S. Tanenhaus the Society’s Craig Joyce Medal to acknowledge and honor extraordinary and sustained volunteer service to the Society.

The deadline for the Immigration and Ethnic History Society outstanding dissertation award is coming up! Details below 👇🏽

I teach students to use the law to fight for whatever it is they care about. But today’s lesson: Warriors need armor. Armor comes from your heart, & it’s fueled by ancestors, family, friends, & those fighting beside you. Today’s hugs are powerful. It’s you armoring up.

Some immediate steps I believe that all trans people should take: - Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and this will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption

From Watergate to Jan 6, lawyers have played roles in efforts to undermine democracy. Check out Temple Law School Prof. Rachel E. López’s piece reflecting on why law schools produce lawyers willing to thwart democracy, at times using their law licenses to do so: buff.ly/3CkRZ4H

"At the post office, there were five people in line for passports. Four of us were trans." I cover steps trans people can take in my latest piece, interviewing trans people and experts on their preparations for federal crackdowns and Trump. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Prof Jonathan Gienapp: “There’s a fork in the road. We either rationally reconstruct the past given our contemporary needs or engage in a broader form of intellectual reconstruction to figure out what the words of the Constitution meant to actual people in 1791." tinyurl.com/mr3rss35

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Announcing the next Charles Redd Center (@BYUReddCenter.bsky.social) seminar - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025. Please help us spread the word! reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-cen… #CFP

Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Voices in the Borderlands is an oral history project that highlights the contributions of women's organizing in South Texas and Southern Arizona. The public archive is now available: chicanavoicesproject.uta.edu

The truce over interstate abortion fights is over. TX has sued a NY doctor for mailing pills into the state; NY has a shield law that allows physicians to sue anyone who sues them in this way. What will it mean to say for the GOP to say abortion should be left to the states now?

2 weeks until the Jan 15 application deadline for our Outdoor Recreation History in the N. American West seminar! You write an article, we fly you to Utah to workshop it w/ others (Aug. 6-8), & after revisions we publish it in an edited volume. reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-cen… #CFP

Out today!!