Weekend Roundup
- Legal and policy historian Wendell Pritchett has been selected as Provost at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Here's a Call for a one-year fellowship at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Law on the history of water law in mandate Palestine/Israel. The deadline is May 15, 2017.
- Monday, May 1, in the Law and Public Affairs Seminar at Princeton University: A Theory of First Amendment Academic Freedom, by David Rabban, University of Texas School of Law, with a comment from Robert Post, Yale Law School.
- Here's another amicus curae brief on the travel ban, prepared by constitutional law scholars (including several who contribute to legal and constitutional history). H/t: LK
- The California Supreme Court Historical Society is taking entries for its Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition.” First prize: $2500! More.
- ICYMI: Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University, posted Being, River: The Law, the Person and the Unthinkable, on H-Law’s World Legal History Blog. J. Samuel Walker delivered The “Practical Value of History”: Historians in the Federal Government, the Roger R. Trask Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government, and that symposium on Balkinization on Michael Klarman's The Framer's Coup, wrapped up last week. Also, Seth Barrett Tillman, Business Transactions and President Trump’s “Emoluments” Problem.
- Here's the CFP for a NYU/New School workshop on Oct.7 on "Global Histories of Capital: New Perspectives on the Global South." The Call includes law as a theme of interest.The extended deadline is just a few days away--May 1, 2017. H/t: H-Sci-Med-Tech
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
