Weekend Roundup

• After the story broke about NPR's failure to cite historian Sarah Milov in a segment on her work, journalist Caroline Kitchener at The Lily followed up: "It’s not just Sarah Milov. Female academics aren’t credited in media ‘all the time.’" The follow-up article includes quotes from Women Also Know History co-founder Emily Prifogle (University of Michigan) and others.

• Robin Lindley’s HNN interview of Robin Chapman Stacey, University of Washington, the author, most recently, of Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, is here.

• From our friends at the Max Planck Institute for European History, a post on the British Legal History Conference 2019.

• David A. Reidy, University of Tennessee, has posted a draft chapter from his forthcoming intellectual biography, John Rawls: Envisioning Democracy.  It covers "Rawls's years at Cornell University from 1953-1958 and the gestation of the first (quite incomplete and underdeveloped) expression of justice as fairness in 1958."

• A recent Economist article took a swipe at historians, claiming that they "remain isolated in their professional cocoons, spending more time fiddling with their footnotes than bringing the past to light for a broader audience." Historians beg to differ here.

• And speaking of broader audiences: read or listen to this interview with Kalyani Ramnath, Harvard in The Polis Project's Suddenly Stateless series, exploring India's controversial National Register of Citizens and the people fighting to be recognized by it. 

• Just out online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core is Secularizing Islam: The Colonial Encounter and the Making of a British Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria, 1903-58, by Rabiat Akande, an SJD candidate at the Harvard Law School.

• From an email to John Q. Barrett 's listserv, we learn that Attorney General William Barr has reclaimed the official Department of Justice portrait of Robert H. Jackson.  Not the most outrageous association with a historical figure we can think of.  DRE

• ICYMI: Farah Peterson, University of Virginia Law, on Black Lives and the Boston Massacre in The American Scholar.  Also, Flos Greig, Australia’s first female lawyer.

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