Weekend Roundup

• Paul Finkelman, Albany Law, will speak on the subject How a Railroad Lawyer Became the Great Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation, and Spielberg's Movie at 7 p.m. Jan. 29 in the amphitheater of the William F. Walsh Science Center of St. Bonaventure University.

• Allen Rostron and Nancy Levit (both from University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law) have posted an updated version of their popular resource, "Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals." (Hat tip: Legal Theory Blog)

•  From the Chronicle of Higher Education: "How Liberal-Arts Majors Fare Over the Long Haul" (spoiler alert: not bad).

• Via the Canadian Legal History Blog, we have word of a Graduate Student Essay Prize in socio-legal studies for students at Canadian universities. 

•  The Teachout-Tillman colloquy continues: Zephyr Teachout, Constitutional Purpose and the Anti-Corruption Principle: A Reply to Seth Barrett Tillman, 108 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY (forthcoming circa Jan. 2014).

• The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience in Newark, New Jersey, has announced the 34th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, "Tending the Light: Community Organizing and the Modern Civil Rights Movement," to be held  February 15, 2014. Speakers include Bob Moses, Diane Nash, Charles Payne, and Barbara Ransby. (Hat tip: H-Law)
  

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