Weekend Roundup

• According to Harvard Law Today, Dean Martha Minow has recommended that the Harvard Law School abandon the shield of the Royall family, on the recommendation of a twelve-member committee that included the legal historians Bruce Mann, who served as chair, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Samuel Moyn, and Annette Gordon-Reed.  The New York Times reports that Professor Gordon-Reed and a student dissented.  According to the Times, Professor Gordon-Reed argued that "erasing the Royalls would also extinguish the memory of the slaves whose labor contributed to the founding of the law school.  'People should have to think about slavery when they think of the Harvard shield; but from now on, with a narrative that emphasizes the enslaved, not the Royall family, Ms. Gordon-Reed wrote.'"  Update: The Crimson published the committee's report here.  Professor Gordon-Reed's "Different View" is here.  The Washington Post's illustrated reportage is here; Harvard Magazine's, here. 

• Jack Rakove, the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University will deliver the 2016 Philip A. Hart Lecture, "The Superior Virtues of Historical Originalism," at the Georgetown University Law Center on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, at 4:00pm.

• A big LHB hat tip to Harvard College student Matthew DeShaw, for his response to skeptics who ask what he'll do with his Classics major.  “Rather than explaining the value of humanities study," he writes in the Harvard Gazette, "I have come to simply say, ‘law school.’ While my postgraduate path has yet to be decided, I know that my humanities education will enable me to succeed in many arenas, law being just one possibility.  Law is deeply rooted in the past; the history of the legal system is the history of the world.  Also, the discipline requires the analytical thinking and problem-solving referenced by Professor [Kathleen] Coleman. How these skills are developed and honed differs between disciplines, but the classics teach these skills effectively.”

• The series Emergence of the Common Law, the Anglo-Saxon Dooms, 601-1020 AD: The Dooms of the Kingdom of Wessex, continues on the blog of the Historical Society of New York Courts.

• Around the symposia: Thomas Duve will speak on De Tordesillas a Zaragoza: acerca de la historia del derecho internacional público, in the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, on March 7.  On March 1, Anthony Medrano, University of Wisconsin, presented So great is the demand, there is no place for the auction: Scaling Up, Fishing Down, and Operating Illegally in Interwar Southeast Asia in Wisconsin’s Legal Studies Workshop. H/t: Legal Scholarship Blog

• Women's Suffrage Stickers, courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

• ICYMI: the latest on Supreme Court nominations, as aggregated by HNN.  And Sherman Jackson, professor emeritus, Miami University, on natural born citizens in Cincinnati.com. 

• Update: "People v. Sanger and the Birth of  Family Planning Clinics in America," by Maria T. Vullo, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP., is here.  H/t: Historical Society of the New York Courts

• Update: Over on his "Jackson List," John Q. Barrett, St. John's Law, takes issue with media reports on President Obama and Justice Scalia that speak of President Eisenhower as having “'snubbed' the funeral of Justice Robert H. Jackson."

• Update: Christine Desan, Harvard Law, recently delivered the Philip Pro Lectureship in Legal History at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.  Her topic: The 18th Century Innovation That Constituted Capitalism:  New Money and its Epochal Aftermath.

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