Saturday, April 9, 2016

Weekend Roundup

  • Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School, “spoke about her experiences combining legal analysis and historical research at a March 9 event hosted by the Class Marshals as part of” a series that “invites HLS professors to give a lecture as if addressing the graduating class for the last time.”  Watch it here
David M. Rabban (credit)
  • Congratulations to David M. Rabban, Texas Law, for being named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow for 2016
  • Wait, you mean it wasn't an April Fool's joke?  It's for reals?  After this, we're still not entirely convinced.
  • Lawrence Solum, Georgetown Law, has updated the entry on Originalism in his Legal Theory Lexicon.  
  • “The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project will present 'Slavery and the Church in New York' with Reverend Charles Kramer on Sunday, April 10, 2016. The program will begin at 2:00 p.m. in the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center. This event is free and open to the public.”  More.
  • "Conflict Resolution in Historical Perspectives," at Cardiff University, September 14, 2016.  More, via H-Law.
 Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.