Weekend Roundup

• Legal scholars and historians on the uproar over changes to India's citizenship laws: read this by Shubhankar Dam, this by Rohit De and Surabhi Ranganathan, this by Madhav Khosla, this by Gautam Bhatia, and this by Neeti Nair. Here's a useful microsyllabus on citizenship and provisional belonging in South Asia, by Swati Chawla, Jessica Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, and Lydia Walker.

• On January 14, 2020, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History hosts a colloquium on Decolonial Comparative Law, with Ralf Michaels and Lena Salaymeh.

• Yesterday Katie Watson, JD, Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Medical Education, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine delivered Contextualizing Abortion: The History of Morality Laws and the Legal Personhood of Women, which was the Annual Women’s Reproductive Health Scholarly Concentration Lecture at Brown University.

• "The [British] National Archives have provoked outcry from academics by announcing a new trial restricting readers to 12 documents a day” (Telegraph, via HNN).

• Over at SCOTUSblog: Amanda Frost, "Academic highlight: Sohoni on the 'lost history' of nationwide injunctions."

• Now available online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Expert Testimony in the Social Sciences: A Historical Overview of Contemporary Issues, by Lawrence Rosen.

• Trey Gaines, Director of the Bartow History Museum, is to speak on the history of the 1869 Courthouse in Cartersville, Georgia, on January 15 from noon to 1 p.m.  (More)

• ICYMI: “31 women who blazed trails” in Oregon history, including Mercedes Deiz, the state’s first black female lawyer  (Statesman Journal).  Robert Caro's papers bound for the New-York Historical Society (NYT).  In praise of the library of the Queens County Supreme Courthouse.

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