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.

• From Notches: Alison Lefkovits (New Jersey Institute of Technology) draws on her expertise on the history of divorce law to explore "The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History."

• The Future of the African American Past: a conference in Washington DC, May 19-21, 2016.  Sessions include the opening roundtable, “The Long Struggle for Civil Rights and Black Freedom.”

• Lawrence Solum, Georgetown Law, has updated the entry on Originalism in his Legal Theory Lexicon.  

• The latest issue of Ronald K. L. Collins’s First Amendment News (FAN 103) is up on Concurring Opinions.  It features a notice of Stephen Solomon’s forthcoming Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech (St. Martin’s Press).

• “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.

• We're very sorry to have missed noting the conference Theodore Roosevelt and the Law in a timely fashion.  Better late than never, we hope. 

• From Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog: a post on "An age of lawyers and literature" (drawing in part on the "Age of Lawyers" exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library).

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