Weekend Roundup

• It's a bit bleak for the holidays, but over at the Faculty Lounge, Al Brophy (UNC Chapel Hill) has posted some interesting ruminations on constitutional ideas in cemetery dedication addresses. The accompanying images are a treat.
  

• The editors of The Browser ask experts to recommend five "must read" books in their subject area. They recently tapped Molly Greene (Princeton University) for a reading list on "Chaos in the 17th-Century Mediterranean." Her picks help explain how, in that unique time and place, "it was possible to have 'order without law.'"

• In an op-ed in the UK's Guardian newspaper, Eric Foner (Columbia University) makes the case that the American Civil War is still being fought.

• More remembrances of the great Morris Cohen are here and here. The Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library has set up a tribute page here.
  

• Winners Legal History: The Coffee Mug. A recent post on Dallas Blog on gifts for lawyers included not only the Green Bag's bobbleheads but also a coffee mug "with a unique feature: pour a hot beverage in, and the loser's names [in the landmark decisions adorning its exterior] disappear, leaving only the winners of these famous Supreme Court cases."