Weekend Roundup

• The latest issue of the American Journal of Legal History features a forum on the interpretation of the Second Amendment. You can access the three papers here for a limited time.
• We missed this one last month. "Oceans of Law II: Islamic Legal Crossings in the Indian Ocean World" took place at Leiden University on Dec.12-14, 2016. Here is the program.
• ICYMI: A New York court archives move made the front page (screen) of the NYT this week!  (The AP story, courtesy of Eric Freedman, is here.)
• Quick reminder of a deadline just 10 days away: here's our earlier post on the Baldy Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at SUNY Buffalo Law School. Applications for post-doctoral, mid-career and senior fellowships are due Jan.17.
• On Inauguration Day, the Princeton University professors Jeremy Adelman, Melissa Lane, Dan Rodgers, and Kim Lane Scheppele will participate in a roundtable on  Global Liberalism in Crisis?” 
• Congratulations to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana for receiving a $25,000 grant for a documentary film called Federal Justice in Indiana.  Ex parte Milligan will figure prominently in it.
• Anuj Bhuwania's new book, Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India has been excerpted and featured in Scroll.in. This part makes interesting connections between PIL and the legal aid movement.

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