Weekend Roundup

• Via The Junto: A guest post from Spencer McBride (Joseph Smith Papers) on “Strange Constitutional Bedfellows: The First and Third Amendments in the Mormon Quest for Religious Liberty.”

• An announcement for untenured law professors: The Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum has issued its annual call for submissions.

• The Economist on The Magna Carta at 800.

• Ronald Collins's interview of Judge Richard Posner continues on Concurring Opinions.  In this post, Judge Posner comments on other (now deceased) eminent judges.

• From the Philadelphia Tribune: “A rare exhibit of American History artifacts opened Monday at the U.S. Constitution Center.  One of the 12 original copies of the Bill of Rights went on display. It will share a gallery with a first-edition stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence and the first public printing of the United States Constitution.”

• "Belafonte, Beschloss, Gordon-Reed to discuss anniversary of Voting Rights Act at Vanderbilt event." [In the Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture Series, January 13.]

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