Weekend Roundup

• Over at JOTWELL's Property section, Shelley Ross Saxer (Pepperdine Law) has posted an admiring review of University of Virginia legal historian Maureen Brady's forthcoming article on "Damagings Clauses."

• Also in JOTWELL, from the Intellectual Property section, Mark McKenna (University of Notre Dame) praises "The Article of Manufacture in 1877," by Sarah Burstein (University of Oklahoma).  The article appeared in Volume 32 of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2017).

• Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the keynote speaker at the Spring 2018 Commencement Ceremonies at the University of Michigan-Flint. 

• “So you want to synthesize filmmaking with legal history? Davidson has a course for that": John Wertheimer’s "Filming Southern Legal History" seminar.  More.

• Starting on April 16, Laney College in Oakland, CA, will host Herstory: The Legal History of Chinese American Women.  Drawn from the personal collection of Dr. Chiu Chang, the exhibit “features rare photographs and case descriptions of efforts by Chinese-American women to gain legal standing in the U.S.”

• ICYMI, last week the California Law Review hosted a symposium on Amanda Tyler's Habeas Corpus in Wartime (Oxford University Press).  

• Timothy Snyder's revelatory essay on Ivan Ilyin and his influence on Putin's Russia.  Chilling reading, after reports of Stephen Bannon's advice to the White House on executive privilege.

• From Krista Kesselring at the Legal History Miscellany blog: "Star Chamber Stories: Using Criminal Law to Criminal Ends in Early Modern London."

•  Our friends at the Max Plank Institute for European Legal History have announced Legal Journals of the 19th Century (Juristische Zeitschriften des 19. Jahrhunderts).  It provides “online access to a vast collection of legal journals . . .   Seventy-five journals were selected, compiled in uninterrupted series, supplemented with structural and meta-data, and published.”  More.

• At the Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy blog: a recent online roundtable discussion of Ornit Shani's book, How India Became Democratic (announced on the blog here), featuring essays by Suhrith Parthasarathy, Anupama Roy, and blog host Gautam Bhatia, along with a response from the author.

• Today is the early registration deadline for the 2018 Policy History Conference. 

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