Weekend Roundup

• “Patti Minter, history professor and former faculty regent on the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents [and ASLH stalwart!], said she plans to file to run for State Representative for the 20th House District of Kentucky, a position previously held by Rep. Jody Richards (D).”   H/t: College Heights Herald, here and here.

• Over at JOTWELL, Binyamin Blum hast posted On Fiscal Citizenship: A Cultural History of Tax Law, on Assaf Likhovski’s Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel (2017).

• The University of Chicago Law School devotes a webpage to vignettes on its history, written by Becky Beaupre Gillespie.  We’re partial to Sophonisba in Love, if only for the hats.

• "On January 13, 2018, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will officially close the 'Images of Internment' exhibit with a 4:00 p.m. reception and auction event."  More. 

• Seth Barrett Tillman, Maynooth University, over on the New Books network, on the Foreign Emoluments Clause and President Trump.

• ICYMI: An Arizona First: Sarah Herring Sorin, the state’s first female lawyer, in the Arizona Capitol Times.  Some civil rights history from the Clarion Ledger. 

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