Weekend Roundup

• Some discouraging news from the American Historical Association: "The Academic Job Market's Jagged Line: Number of Ads Placed Drops for Second Year."

• From GradHacker: a Ph.D. student writes about the benefits of keeping a journal.

• American Constitutionalism: Powers, Rights, and Liberties, by Howard Gillman, Mark A. Graber, and Keith E. Whittington, is now out as a single-volume edition for Oxford University Press.  

•  A symposium on the history of law and corporate responsibility is available ungated on the website of the University of St. Thomas Law Journal.  It includes The Antimonopoly Tradition by Kenneth Lipartito.

• Vermonters love their legal history.  Another review of Paul S. Gillies’s Uncommon Law, Ancient Roads, and Other Ruminations on Vermont Legal History is here.

• Former guest blogger Ajay Mehrotra's Making the Modern American Fiscal State is now available from Cambridge in an affordable paperback edition.

• The legal historians Al Brophy and Daniel Sharfstein have joined up with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program.  Hat tip: Mary Dudziak.

• The topic for the 2015 David A. Garfinkel Essay Scholarship, sponsored by the Historical Society of the New York Courts, is LGBT: The Road to Equality.

• The Journal of Civil and Human Rights is seeking authors of articles and reviews to submit their work.   Hat tip: H-Law.

• Hart Publishing is offering LHB readers a 20% discount on Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries, edited by Wilfrid Prest. To receive the discount: "write ref: AY3 in the special instructions field. The discount will not appear on your order confirmation but it will be applied when your order is processed."

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