Weekend Roundup

• Last Thursday, the Icesi Law School in Cali, Colombia, held a conference to commemorate twenty-five years of the Constitution of Colombia (right).

• Forthcoming in December from Carolina Academic Press: The Death Penalty as Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition, by John D. Bessler, and Law Professor and Accidental Historian: The Scholarship of Michael A. Olivas, edited by Ediberto Román.

• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will present Listening to the Roosevelts: Franklin D. Roosevelt–The War Years at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28, 2016, in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home.  Mary E. Stuckey, professor of communication at Georgia State University, presents, with selected audio recordings of FDR during World War II. 

• The Canadian Journal of Women and Law seeks submissions for a special issue 30(2) to be published in December 2018 on Race, Gender and Law: A tribute to the scholarship of Sherene Razack, guest edited by Gada Mahrouse, Carmela Murdocca, and Leslie Thielen-Wilson.  H/t: H-Law.

• Seth Barrett Tillman on Ireland and World War II.

• On Talk Radio Europe: an interview with Ian Burney (University of Manchester) on his new book (with Neil Pemberton), Murder and the Making of English CSI, which we announced here

• CFP: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, UCLA School of Law, April 28-29, 2017. Interested? Submit your paper by Feb.1, 2017.

• The Singapore War Crimes Trial Web Portal was launched on Aug.29, 2016. Have a look here. H/t: World Legal History Blog

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