Weekend Roundup

• Over at New Books in Law, Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford University) discusses his book The Second Creation; former guest blogger Kimberly Welch (Vanderbilt University) discusses Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South.

• From the New Legal Realism blog: Malcolm Feeley (University of California, Berkeley) on Frank Remington, Wisconsin, and the influential American Bar Foundation project on the administration of criminal justice in the U.S. (The project was a collaboration with the Ford Foundation, the ABA, and others.) Willard Hurst makes a few cameo appearances.

• Are you up to speed on the due dates for the awards and prizes of the Organization of American Historians?  We ask, because we’re jurying one of them.  DRE 

• The HistPhil forum on the Dartmouth College v. Woodward case continues. Here's a contribution from Evelyn Atkinson (American Bar Foundation doctoral fellow/Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago).

•  From the Washington Post's Made by History section: Ariela Gross (USC) and Alejandro de la Fuente (Harvard University) on the history of racialized understandings of citizenship; Smita Ghosh (Georgetown University) on migrant detention; Carly Goodman (co-editor, Made by History), S. Deborah Kang (California State University San Marcos), and Yael Schacher (Refugees International) on the power of immigrant rights advocates to protect and enforce the right to asylum; Rebecca Spang (Indiana University) on what the French Revolution teaches us about the dangers of gerrymandering; and more.

• Call for Papers: “Law and Political Economy: Democracy After Neoliberalism,” the inaugural Law and Political Economy Project conference. 

• For a limited time, The Czar and the Slaves: Two Puzzles in the History of International Arbitration, by Bennett Ostdiek and John Fabian Witt is open access in the American Journal of International Law.

• Newly published online in Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Method and Dialogue in History and Originalism by Logan Everett Sawyer, and “Amongst the Most Desirable Reading”: Advertising and the Fetters of the Newspaper Press in Britain, c. 1848–1914, by Anat Rosenberg.

• ICYMI: Manisha Sinha on The New Fugitive Slave Laws in NYRB.  As previously mentioned (but now the subject of an official HLS announcement), Property law scholar [and Legal Historian] Molly Brady joins the Harvard Law faculty.  A play on McNaughton's Case at the Edinburgh Fringe, via The Scotsman.

• Update: Listen to Sarah Milov discuss the controversy over an NPR segment that used her work without attribution here. Background here. H/t: Emily Prifogle and @womenalsoknowhistory

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