Weekend Roundup

• The Historical Society for the DC Circuit announces that Robert S. Mueller III, Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will deliver the Sixth Annual Judge Thomas A. Flannery Lecture on Thursday, October 23, 2014 in the Ceremonial Courtroom of the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse at 5 p.m.

• David Adler, director of the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University, celebrated the 225th anniversary of the Judiciary Act of 1789 as “a cornerstone for constitutional uniformity.”

• On Tuesday, October 28, from 3:30-5:00 p.m., in the Historical Presidency Series of the Miller Center for Public Policy at the University of Virginia: Elizabeth Varon, University of Virginia, speaks on Andrew Johnson's Impeachment and the Legacy of the Civil War.

• From the Journal of American History's podcast: a conversation with Barbara Welke (University of Minnesota) on her recent article "The Cowboy Suit Tragedy." For more on this terrific article, check out my recent review on JOTWELL, here. (KMT)

• More from JOTWELL: An appreciative review, but Stephen Urice (University of Miami), of Valentina Vadi, War, Memory, and Culture: The Uncertain Legal Status of Historic Sunken Warships Under International Law, 37 Tul. Mar. L. J. 333 (2013).

• From Environment, Law, and History: a guest post by Leona Skelton (University of Bristol) on what can be learned from the Tyne’s River Court Books, 1644-1834.

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