Weekend Roundup

•  From the Washington Post's Made by History section: Erik Erlandson (Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia) on how "the bureaucracy serves as a bulwark against hasty deregulation"; Joshua T. McCabe (Endicott University) on the history of limiting the mortgage deduction - can it be done again?; and Molly Michelmore (Washington & Lee) on "how the GOP uses 'family values' to slash taxes."

• Emory Law's press release on LHB Founder Mary Dudziak's naming as an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History is here.  She is pictured with another Honorary Fellow, David V. Williams of the University of Auckland, and three past ASLH presidents.

• A YouTube video of Paul Finkelman’s lecture, "Kosciuszko: A Bridge to Liberty for All," which treats “Brigadier General of the Continental Army and Polish freedom fighter, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and his efforts to end slavery” is here.

• Just Security blog is hosting a symposium on The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, by Yale's Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro.  The first post, by Gary J. Bass, is here.

• That Congressional briefing on the Historical Context of Civil War Monuments, sponsored by the National History Center, airs on C-SPAN3 today at 6:00pm EST.

• Here's an interesting CFP from Perspectives on Politics: Celebrities and Politics.  "We ... invite scholars to submit theoretical and empirical pieces that build on existing celebrity/celebrities and politics research or break new ground to explore the power of "celebrity" and interrogate the forces that produce and maintain it."  The interested should contact perspectives@apsanet.org.

• The History and Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, is now accepting applications for its 2018 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research.

•  A reminder: the deadline for submitting papers and panels for the Policy History Conference, to be held  in Tempe, Arizona, May 16-19, 2018, is December 8, 2017.

• And another: the Davis Center fellowship deadline (theme: law & legalities) at the Princeton History department is Dec.1. Details here.

• ICYMI: K. Sabeel Rahman, Brooklyn Law, on Law, Political Economy, and the Legal Realist Tradition Revisited, on Law and Political Economy Blog.  James D. Folts, New York State Archives, on Documenting Our Past: Great Documents of New York Legal History.

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