Weekend Roundup

• In an op-ed in the New York Times, historian Sean Wilentz (Princeton University) argues that by refusing to raise the debt limit, Congressional Republicans run afoul of the Fourteenth Amendment. The piece inspired comment from Jack Balkin (Yale Law School), here.

• From History News Network: "A Brief History of the Federal Debt Limit." 

• The Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog introduces “Built by Association: Books Once Owned by Notable Judges and Lawyers, from Bryan A. Garner’s Collection.” The exhibition, curated by Bryan A. Garner with Mike Widener, is on display until December 16, 2013, at the Lillian Goldman Law Library. 

• From the Baltimore Afro-American: "Baltimore-Born Woman Joins Harvard Law Faculty as Islamic Law Scholar"

• Jeffrey Rosen interviews Gerard N. Magliocca on his biography of John Bingham, American Founding Son, for the National Constitution Center.

• Via H-Law: "FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) is now accepting applications for a fellowship that uses the conduct of lawyers and judges in Nazi Germany as a launching point for an intensive two-week early summer program about contemporary legal ethics." More information here.

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