Weekend Roundup

• We're grateful to Josiah Daniel for his comment on the post on Klinefelter and Laredo's paper on the attorney-client privilege and reproduce it here: "It is absurd that the A-C privilege should be considered eternal. Lawyers' files are great troves of primary source materials for historians. Interested readers should consult the Organization of American Historians report: Historians and Access to the Files of Lawyers prepared by the Ad Hoc Committee on Access to Lawyers’ Files [Kermit L. Hall (chair), Paul Finkelman, N. E. H. Hull, Stanley N. Katz] available on the ASLH website."

• From the Junto: "Of Class and Courts-Martial: The Case of Ensign McVicar," a guest post by Emily Merrill (Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania).

•  And more the Junto: Episode 11 of the Junto's regular podcast is out, and it's on the Declaration of Independence.

• Thanks to @LHR_editor, we've learned of the Maryland State Archives website, Legacy of Slavery in Maryland, which has searchable databases containing the entries for "over 300,000 individuals including, white and black, slave owners, enslaved and free individuals from primarily the years of 1830 through 1880."

• Summer housecleaning.  An inquiry from our library director leads us to ask: If you teach at a law school, does your library systematically collect official committee documents, such as reports, minutes, or research), beyond what finds its way into a chronological series in the dean's office?

• From the Canadian Legal History Blog: A recap of the awards given at the annual meeting of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Congratulations to graduate students Peter Price (Queen's University) and Mary Stokes (York University) for taking away honors! 

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