Weekend Roundup

• New from Quid Pro Books is a republication of Marc Galanter’s Why the Haves Come Out Ahead: The Classic Essay and New Observations, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Galanter's “canonical, much-cited article.”  The book includes almost 90 pages of new commentary and applications by Galanter, Robert W. Gordon (Stanford), and Shauhin Talesh (UC Irvine).

• And Guido Calabresi's scholarship gets a retrospective in a special issue of Law and Contemporary Problems, Law and Economics: The Legacy of Guido Calabresi.  The symposium includes Laura Kalman, Some Thoughts on Yale and Guido, and James R. Hackney, Jr., Guido Calabresi and the Construction of Contemporary American Legal Theory.

• Christian G. Samito on How A Supreme Court Precedent From 1837 Supports Uber's Fight Against Taxi Monopolies.  

• We learned today that Patti Minter, longtime chair of the ASLH's Membership Committee, has fought the good fight long enough and will not be seeking another term as faculty member on the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University.

• From In Custodia Legis: Archived Legal Materials from Official Gazettes Now Available Through Law.gov

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