Weekend Roundup

• Jill Lepore's latest New Yorker article may be of interest to readers. It is titled "The Dark Ages: Terrorism, Terror, and the Law of Torment." Subscribers only, unfortunately.

• From the Daily Beast: legal historian R. B. Bernstein on "The Sequester and the Civil War: A Historical What-If with Lessons for Today."

•  Last year’s Federalist Society Student Symposium at the Stanford Law School included an unusually interesting panel on the Rule of Law and the Administrative State, consisting of Peter Shane, Richard Epstein, David Barron, and Judge Brett Kavanaugh.  Along the way, the speakers make some assertions about the history of the administrative state that are instructive for any historian who needs to check her own understanding of the subject against that of those outside the historical discipline.  I particularly enjoyed Professor Epstein’s evisceration of Felix Frankfurter on the judicial review of the FCC, even though he erroneously claims that Frankfurter learned about the administrative state at the feet of James Landis, when of course it was the other way around.  You may view or download the session here. [DRE] 

• A brief review by Herbert Hovenkamp of David Rabban's Law's History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History (Cambridge, 2013) is here.

• Georgetown University Law Center hosts Gay Rights Coalition of Georgetown University Law Center vs. Georgetown University, 25th Anniversary on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. on the 12th Floor of the Gewirz Student Center, located on the Georgetown Law campus at 120 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C.  This symposium is sponsored by the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. It commemorates the 25th anniversary of Gay Rights Coalition of Georgetown University Law Center v. Georgetown University.

The Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History Bloggers.