Sarah R. Meiners, PhD

If you study legal history, please consider submitting a proposal for the 2026 conference of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, Canada in November! The Program Committee accepts proposals until March 24! #ASLH #legalhistory 🗃️

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US Supreme Court will hear arguments in Tarague bomb detonation range lawsuit A lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force over the Tarague Beach range used to blow up old munitions and ordnance found in the community will go all the way to

The US Supreme Court will review a lawsuit concerning the Tarague Beach range, which poses significant legal implications for Guam's community safety.

Truly mindboggling. And it stays true for S2

Chotiner: You've made the claim that no one has ever fed you in your life.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Yet there's food in your dish right now.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Let's change the subject to the ripped-open bag of sandwich bread on the floor.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: I have read different things.

***Online Discussion presented by @ihrc-umn.bsky.social : The Founding of the United States and Immigration History***

Tue, Mar 31, 2026 | 3:30 - 5 PM

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table of contents for Law and History Review's february 2026 special forum/issue, New Legal Histories of the American Revolution

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Out shortly ... our joint special forum with The William and Mary Quarterly:

New Legal Histories of the American Revolution

Contributions by Sarah Barringer Gordon, Mark Valeri, Jess Roney, Don Johnson, Matthew Crow, and William J. Novak

All open access ✅

Links soon!

This is so amazing

Declaration of Yael Schacher – #55, Att. #12 in COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS v. NOEM (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00872) – CourtListener.com Declaration of Yael Schacher

Finally done with this declaration: a product of months of archival research.
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As I told the litigators: keeping up the fight, especially if it means I get to go to the archives, is what is keeping me sane.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

This is horrifically cruel. “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth, a local official in Chandler said Tuesday.” An excruciating and wholly preventable death. No words are adequate.

Seattle folks, I'll be back in the city this weekend - come hang at Mam's Books in the International District for my book launch and conversation with Moon-Ho Jung!

@uwapress.uw.edu

"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

#ShareGoodNewsToo

Also, here's a link to an article confirming the screenshot.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Registration for #SHAFR2026 is open on the website.
www.shafr.org/shafr2026

After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Protection, Not Concession: Mexico’s Responsibility to Third Country Nationals Deported by the United States - Refugees International The United States is deporting thousands of third country nationals to Mexico using coercive tactics, including enforced disappearances.

Out latest on US subterfuge and Mexican neglect in handling removed 3rd country nationals, especially Cubans. US deportation agreements w/ far flung countries are CRAZY, but vast majority of 3rd country nationals end up in Mexico-- this needs ATTENTION!

www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...

NOTE
1 Pregnant because raped in custody
2 Moved to TX because the regime has anticipated a need to circumvent state laws regarding abortion, medical rights
3 the infants in question will likely be trafficked into evangelical adoption networks or be subject the consequences of a lack of medical care

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.

Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe

This stinks at every level. What refugees desperately need after their claims are accepted is the stability to rebuild their lives. This change will cause immeasurable stress and anxiety to some of the most vulnerable people in the country

People who seek asylum are not bogus and are actually seeking asylum.

Those 19 left Venezuela, came to the U.S., sent to CECOT, returned to Venezuela, left Venezuela and want justice now the US.

Follow Anjali's expert live-posting of the emergency UN Security Council meeting here (you can also watch the live video at webtv.un.org/en)

The duty of the hour— to save Cuba not only from Spain but a worse fate!

Job opening for a 2-year Postdoc in #OralHistory and Social Justice at Duke University: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69830/d...

An ADSBx map showing N351AX landing and taking off from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Overnight, this Omni ICE flight did a deportation stop to Bangladesh and is now heading to Guam, likely for crew rest.

Not The Onion

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The weekend is here! So is a new read from OAH Lecturer Adrian De Leon:, Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland.

Get your copy: https://ow.ly/wIOg50YniZ4
Schedule a book talk: https://ow.ly/qIA250YniZ5

This brief is beyond excellent.

Making my way through the amicus briefs filed in support of respondents in Trump v. Barbara and more than 10 of them address the risk of statelessness in a fairly significant way. Many others at least mention it in passing. A thread on the most significant arguments re: statelessness 1/

First page of the constitutional draft of the US Virgin Islands Fifth Constitutional Convention.

#TBT: The Fifth Constitutional Convention of the US Virgin Islands passed a proposed constitution, sent to President Barack Obama, who submitted it to the US Congress on February 26, 2010. Disagreements over sovereignty, legal advantages, and the bill of rights led to the draft's rejection.

I think it’s telling that ICE’s rouses target the most prosocial human behaviors, as though they understand our universal impulse to help and support others in need, as though they aim to kill those very impulses as they tear apart our society