Weekend Roundup

Philip Girard

• Philip Girard (Osgoode Hall Law School), a recently named honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History, is scheduled to give the plenary address at this year's annual meeting. (Hat tip: Canadian Legal History Blog)  

• Via In Custodia Legis: The Magna Carta is coming to the Library of Congress.

• Stop defending the humanities? Simon During makes the case. (Hat tip: Arts & Letters Daily)

• Via H-Law: the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University has announced a call for short articles on the Election of 2004.

• If you're in New Haven, check out the Yale Law Library's new exhibit, "350 Years of Rebellious Lawyering." 

• Legal History Blogger Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard Law School, is to deliver the Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture in Legal History at the University of Chicago Law School on May 8, 2014.  

• "A Constitutional History of the Long 1960s,”  Risa Goluboff’s lecture on November 12, 2013, marking her appointment as John Allan Love Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law is downloadable here.

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