Saturday, May 5, 2012

Weekend Roundup

  • Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern Center for Legal Studies, has posted an appreciation of Kimberley S. Johnson's "Racial Orders, Congress, and the Agricultural Welfare State, 1865-1940," 25 Studies in American Political Development 143 (October 2011) on Jotwell.
  • “From the Streets to the Courts: Doing Grassroots Legal History of the Civil Rights Era,” Ariela Gross’s review for the Texas Law Review of Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s Courage to Dissent is here.
  • The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will hold a book launch for Deidre Molony’s National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy Since 1882, on Thursday, May 10, 2012, from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. at Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor, Moynihan Board Room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,  Washington, D.C. 20004.  A reception will follow.  To RSVP acceptance, send an email to Maria-Stella Gatzoulis at maria-stella.gatzoulis@wilsoncenter.org
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