Weekend Roundup

• On Wednesday, April 25, at 6 p.m., the American Bar Foundation will host a launch for The Sit-Ins: Protest & Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era, by Christopher W. Schmidt, an ABF Faculty Fellow who teaches at Chicago-Kent College of Law.  Refreshments will be provided and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. Registration is "free and required.” 

• On Wednesday, April 11, at 2 pm, Richard Breitman, coauthor of FDR and the Jews, will deliver the inaugural Holocaust Remembrance Day Morgenthau Lecture at the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. His topic is The United States Government's Reaction to Kristallnacht.

• Among the upcoming public events-of-interest at Princeton University are SNCC to BLM: Robert Moses Discusses the Evolution of Racial Justice Organizing in the U.S., in conversation with Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University in 101 McCormick Hall, on April 8, at 4:00 p.m., and, on April 9, at 4:30 pm, Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech, by Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University, with a response from Nicholas Rosenkranz, Georgetown University Law Center, in 222 Bowen Hall.

Belmont County Court House (wiki)

•  Last Wednesday, interested residents of St. Clairsville, Ohio, gathered at St. Mary’s Catholic Church to hear Belmont County Court of Common Pleas Judge Frank Fregiato and lawyer Daniel Frizzi Jr. discuss “historic Belmont County court cases.”  More. 

• Last Thursday, Mary Bilder, Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, delivered James Madison and Constitutional Compromise, the 2018 Quinlan Lecture, at the Oklahoma City University School of Law.

• Also last Thursday, Sophia Z. Lee, University of Pennsylvania, spoke on her book, The Workplace Constitution: From the New Deal to the New Right, as part of the Amicus Curiae Lecture Series at Marshall University.  More.

• Department of Unidentified Identifiers: The Providence Journal editorializes about those Rhode Island court records, spotted on auction by "an alert legal history researcher at the University of Pennsylvania." And the sitter for that nineteenth-century portrait of a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice has been identified, thanks in part to “a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan” who had “written his thesis at Columbia” on the judge in question. (H/t: Joanna Grisinger.) 

• Over at the website of Studies in Legal History, Edward Kolla, Georgetown University Qatar, “delves into the history of the idea of popular sovereignty, its roots in the French Revolution, and its relevance to territorial claims in more modern times,” in conjunction with the publication of his Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2017).  

• The exhibit # 1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis closes on April 15, with several events scheduled this week.  More.

• The latest newsletter of the Historical Society of the DC Circuit is out.

• ICYMI: Lori Aratani in WaPo on the secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII.  Duke Today reports on the university’s recent conference, Examining Slavery’s Legacy in Politics, Economics and in Stone. Scientific American on how to think about "implicit bias."  WaPo on less-visited DC museums, including drug enforcement, patents, Carter Woodson, and women’s equality.  Also: Perfectionism and Its Discontents.
  

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