Weekend Roundup

• HNN collects much historical and historically inflected commentary on Justice Scalia's legacy and the appointment of his successor here.  Along similar lines, Wednesday's New York Times ran a piece by Emily Bazelon and John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) on "Senate Republicans and the Supreme Court: Where Is This Headed Exactly?"

• From the Rome News Tribune: “The Georgia Legal History Foundation will present a workshop in Rome on March 3-4 that will revisit ‘Georgia’s Last Frontier: The People, Lawyers and Judges of Northwest Georgia-Cherokee Country.’”

Roger B. Taney (credit)

• Randall Lesaffer, Professor of Legal History at Tilburg Law School, reviews the history of Dutch-Belgian land swaps on OUPblog.

• Seth Barrett Tillman, in the Baltimore Sun, on whether Ex parte Merryman speaks to whether Taney’s statue (right) should remain on public view 

• Paul Finkelman on HuffPo on whether Ted Cruz is a “natural born citizen.”

• We all know that in 2013 US tax historians rose to the occasion of their great centennials, that of the Sixteenth Amendment and the Revenue Act of 1913.  Now come the Canadians: “Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and the Canadian Tax Foundation are planning a special centennial publication to mark the 100th anniversary of the Income Tax Act,” writes Canadian Legal History Blog. 

• The Library of Congress has digitized its collection of Rosa Parks's papers and put them on-line.

• The legal historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Kenneth Mack participated in a discussion at the Harvard Law School on “an international legal effort now underway in the Caribbean to hold European nations that engaged in that region’s slave trade accountable to the modern-day descendants of those slaves.”  H/t: Harvard Gazette

• Princeton University's School of Architecture is sponsoring a series of lectures called Detroit 101.  It asks, "Is the contemporary narrative of Detroit based on a fact or fiction?"  The topics are Arts & Image, Urbanism & Design, The Arts of Urban Transition, Philanthropy & Public Policy, and History, Race and Real Estate, a topic upon which Thomas Sugrue, NYU, will, with others, address.

• ICYMI: the Washington Post ran a lovely, illustrated story on FSA photographers and the Great Depression; NPR ran one on The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, "the earliest known prison memoir by an African-American writer."

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