Weekend Roundup

• We missed the conference and the publication of the conference issue for Exploring Civil Society through the Writings of Dr. Seuss™ (New York Law School Law Review 58:3 [2013/14]) until just now.  Congrats to my former colleague Georgetown colleague Richard Chused for his introduction and my present Georgetown colleague Naomi Mezey and the Georgetown student Gabe Lezra (L'15) for their paper Forms of affiliation: family, democracy, and civil society in Horton Hears a Who! [DRE]

• We also missed Kenneth M. Casebeer’s "Public . . . Since Time Immemorial": The Labor History of Hague v. CIO, Rutgers Law Review 66 (2013): 147-178.

• The National History Center's advice on researching at the Library of Congress.

• Seth Barrett Tillman has posted a letter on The Quorum Clause.

•  NYC's Former Pro-Slavery Stance Examined in Governors Island Exhibit, a post by Emily Frost on the website DNAinfor New York, reports that “an exhibit on NYC's history during the Civil War that examines the city's ambivalent history on the institution of slavery — including a former city mayor's unwavering support for it — is headed to Governors Island this summer.”

• The Originalism Blog has gathered some pointers to posts on Philip Hamburger's Is Administrative Law Unlawful?  The Wall Street Journal, National Review and the Cato Institute have all noticed the book.

• "The Declaration's influence wasn't limited to the American colonies of the late 18th century," writes David Armitage in the Wall Street Journal.  "No American document has had a greater impact on the wider world. As the first successful declaration of independence in history, it helped to inspire countless movements for independence, self-determination and revolution after 1776 and to this very day. As the 19th-century Hungarian nationalist, Lajos Kossuth, put it, the U.S. Declaration of Independence was nothing less than "the noblest, happiest page in mankind's history."  More.

• "Archives From Prisons in New York Are Digitized," reports the New York Times.

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