Weekend Roundup

• Congratulations to Justin Simard (Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania), who has been selected as a Baldy Postdoctoral Fellow by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.

• History News Network interviews Logan Sawyer, Georgia Law (visiting this year at Harvard Law) at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, where he spoke about the conservative movement’s adoption of originalism.

•  Around the Symposia: Ariela Gross, USC Gould School of Law, presented From the Streets to the Courts: The Grassroots History of Race, Law and Conservatism to the Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law, on April 20.  Three days later, William E. Forbath, University of Texas School of Law, presented on Law & Government at the Vanderbilt University Law School.  H/t: Legal Scholarship Blog.   

• Leopold and Loeb (and Tsarnaev) on JSTOR Daily. 

• In an earlier post, we noted legal history in the journals of state historical societies.  Now comes the Spring 2015 issue of Washington History, a publication of the Historical Society of Washington, DC, which includes "'Horrible Barbarity': The 1837 Murder Trial of Dorcas Allen, a Georgetown Slave."

• ICYMI: Jill Lepore, The Rule of History: Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and the Hold of Time, in the April 20 issue of The New Yorker.  And over at New Books in History, Jennifer Delton, Skidmore College, discusses her Rethinking the 1950s: How Anticommunism and the Cold War Made America Liberal (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

• "The American Historical Association has sent a letter to the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau decrying Georgia's proposed 'Religious Freedom Restoration Act,' which would establish a vendor's right to refuse goods or services to individuals based on their religion, sexual orientation, marital status, or whatever other factors might emanate from religious doctrine or practice."

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