Weekend Roundup

• .Yale Law's John Witt is delivering Two Humanitarianisms: A Constitution Day Lecture at Boston College on September 17 in a session jointly sponsored by BC's Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and Legal History Roundtable.

• Via H-Law: "The Common Law Epitomiz'd: Anthony Taussig's Law Books" is the latest exhibit from the Yale Law Library's Rare Book collection. It showcases the Law Library's acquisitions from the greatest private collection of rare English law books ever assembled: the collection of Anthony Taussig."

• More on the Disqualification Clause: Brian C. Kalt, The Application of the Disqualification Clause to Congress: A Response to Benjamin Cassady, “You’ve Got Your Crook, I’ve Got Mine”: Why the Disqualification Clause Doesn’t (Always) Disqualify, forthcoming in a symposium with Peter Hoffer, Buckner Melton, Jr., and Seth Barrett Tillman) in volume 33 of the Quinnipiac Law Review.  Tillman's contribution is Originalism & The Scope of the Constitution’s Disqualification Clause.

• Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA, announces the publication of her book, Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria (University of Chicago Press, 2014).  It asks “why the Jews of Algeria’s south were marginalized by French authorities, how they negotiated the sometimes brutal results, and what the reverberations have been in the postcolonial era.”

• We noticed David Garrow's contribution to a symposium on Roe v. Wade in the Washington & Lee Law Review when he posted it on SSRN.  The issue is now available on-line and ungated.  It includes Beyond Backlash: Legal History, Polarization, and Roe v. Wade, by Mary Ziegler, Florida State Law.
  

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