We could not be more lucky to have Professor Carbado as colleague, mentor, and teacher.

The most rapidly organised book I've ever edited is at final proof stage. If you want to read accessible essays from some of the best known expert historians about some of the most controversial aspects of Britain's colonial history, instead of listening only to what political…

Now out from behind the paywall: Samuel Moyn 🔭 and Ryan Doerfler on defying the Supreme Court.

'The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.'

dissentmagazine.org/article/we-are…

Attention to historians of US immigration, the US West, and Asian America, as well as legal historians, Beth Lew-Williams will talk about her new book! This will be a great event!

I’m so excited to be welcoming Torey Dolan to our faculty in the fall! She’ll be joining Amanda White Eagle as part of our extraordinary faculty in federal Indian and tribal law: law.wisc.edu/profiles/torey…

**Potential Graduate Students** The University of Bergen Universitetet i Bergen (Norway) is offering two fully-funded PhD positions to study constitutionalism in the borderlands, including American colonialism. Combine political and constitutional theory with fieldwork.
jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Congratulations to Ned Blackhawk, Christina Snyder, Dyani White Hawk (whose mom performed our wedding ceremony), Tiya Miles Tiya Miles, and Elizabeth Hinton Elizabeth Hinton on their Guggenheim fellowships! prweb.com/releases/annou…

On May 16, the JCB will host a talk by NYU Law Professor Maggie Blackhawk (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) titled 'The Constitution of American Colonialism.'

Free and open to the public. 5 p.m. with reception to follow.
jcblibrary.org/events/constit…

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨
May 9-10: 'American Constitutionalism in Crisis?'
The 2024 CSUS Bissell-Heyd Symposium, featuring keynote addresses by Rogers Smith, Maggie Blackhawk, and Jonathan Gienapp.

Mark your calendars and spread the word!

If we shifted this frame, perhaps we can also shift to embrace the idea that Thanksgiving was a post-Civil War effort of unification after fundamental moral failure. Thanksgiving is not a day to cement other myths about the treatment of Native people by the United States.

Last week, the 9th Cir. heard argument in Maverick Gaming-another challenge to Indian law on equal protection grounds. Unifying American colonialism has been revelatory: Gibson Dunn and Matthew McGill, who filed Brackeen & Maverick, also challenged territorial law on EP grounds/1

What's the best thing about a good, old-fashioned Oklahoma hail storm?
Having another day to study Maggie Blackhawk's Harvard Law Review Supreme Court Foreword before her Quinlan Lecture!
harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations again, Ned! We are so proud of you!