Weekend Roundup

• “[T]he concept of a legal ‘right to work,' harkens back to the early Twentieth Century when this and other substantive due process doctrines were used to strike down Progressive labor laws,” writes former LHB Guest Blogger Sophia Lee in a post on ACSblog that draws upon her book Workplace Constitution.  "[H]ow have right-to-work proponents managed to rally successfully behind such an anachronistic term?” 

• Here's Penn's press release on LHB Guest Blogger Sarah Barringer Gordon's Guggenheim.

• David Bernstein's new find on the Lochner case, on The Volokh Conspiracy.  h/t Brad Snyder

• ICYMI: Sources on Lincoln's assassination from the Miller Center for Public Affairs. 

• Ronald Collins has alerted us to some forthcoming Posneria, a biograpy of Judge Richard Posner from Oxford University Press and a new book by the judge, Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary (Harvard University Press).

• Jo Guldi, Brown University, and Richard Armitage, Harvard University, on The History Manifesto, to the Washington History Seminar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, 5th Floor Conference Room, Monday, April 20, 2015, 4:00pm - 5:30pm.  Eric Arnesen, J.R. McNeill, and Rosemarie Zagarri will comment.

• Around the Symposia: On April 13, Gregory Alexander, Cornell Law School, present The Sporting Life: Democratic Culture and the Historical Origins of the Scottish Right to Roam, to the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC-Berkeley Law.  And on April 14 our own Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard Law School, presented to a joint session of Yale’s Legal History Forum and Legal Theory Workshop on new scholarship from law and other humanities and social sciences disciplines. Hat tip: Legal Scholarship Blog.

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