Weekend Roundup

• From the Consumer Law & Policy Blog: historical perspectives on the Supreme Court's current Fair Housing Act case (here and here). (Hat tip: Torts Today)

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  Joanna L. Grossman (credit)

  Geoffrey Stone, Chicago Law, the author of, among other things, Perilous Times Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1780 to the War On Terrorism, reflects on his service on President Obama’s review group to study national security and information privacy issues here.

• ICYMI: Joanna L. Grossman, Hofstra Law, coauthor of Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America, on marriage equality in the US Supreme Court in Justia.

• From Inside Higher Ed: A law school vice dean tells students that the historical record could do without the gender biased comments they have been leaving in female professors' teaching evaluations ("If you have any doubts that posterity will somehow muddle through without the benefit of your fashion advice, allow me to dispel them once and for all”). 

• More on the John Hope Franklin Centennial at Duke.   

• The Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives is hosting the conference The Moynihan Report: 50 Years Later, Thursday, February 5, 2015, 10AM to 4PM, Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor, Georgetown University Law Center.  Speakers include my GULC colleagues Paul Butler, Anthony Cook and Gary Peller, as well as Donald Tibbs, Drexel University, and Justin Hansford, St. Louis University.  DRE

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