Weekend Roundup

• With the help of Michael J. Wishnie and his clinic students at Yale Law School, a powerhouse group of legal historians has submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam. Signers include Lauren Benton, Barbara Aronstein Black, Paul Brand, Kevin Costello, Christine Desan, Lisa Ford, Eric Freedman, Robert Gordon, Thomas Green, Paul Halliday, Hendrik Hartog, Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Stanley Katz, David Lieberman, Michael Lobban, Bernadette Meyler, Eben Moglen, Hannah Weiss Muller, James Oldham, Wilfred Priest, Jonathan Rose, David J. Seipp, and John Fabian Witt.  

• In the op-ed pages of the Los Angeles Times: Sarah Barringer Gordon (University of Pennsylvania) and Kevin Waite (Durham University) on "California's Forgotten Slave History."

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Mary Ziegler (Florida State University College of Law) on how it came to be that "both sides in the abortion fight now claim to be for women’s equality"; Monica Kristin Blair (Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia) on "What the Supreme Court missed about Wednesday’s religious-schools case"; Andrew Urban (Rutgers University) on what the deportation of an Iranian student shows about "the unchecked power of Customs and Border Protection"; Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) and Stacie Taranto (Ramapo College of New Jersey) on "What antiabortion advocates get wrong about the women who secured the right to vote"; and more.

• The Ipse Dixit podcast has posted an episode on antitrust history, featuring Christopher L. Sagers (Cleveland-Marshall School of Law).  

• HNN's interview of Chilton Varner, the president of the Supreme Court Historical Society, is here.

• Martti Koskenniemi presents "What is the History of International Law a History of?" to the  EuroStorie research seminar at the University of Helsinki on January 31.  More.

• Via HNN, here is a report on an American Historical Association panel on the history of presidential misconduct, with Kathryn Olmstead, Kevin M. Kruse, Jeremi Suri, and James M. Banner, Jr., based on the book, Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today, ed. Banner (New Press, 2019). 

• Andrew Delbanco, the author of The War before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, speaks at the FDR Presidential Library at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 9, 2020.

• A response to Guest blogger David S. Schwartz's guest blogposts here in December--by Michael Ramsey on the Originalism Blog here, with a response to the response by David Schwartz here.

• ICYMI:  A new exhibit on Gideon v. Wainwright at the Historical Museum of Bay County (Florida).  Brenda Wineapple in WaPo: why Salmon Chase is not a fit role model for John Roberts when presiding over an impeachment trial.  Histories of pettitfogging from NPR and Kellen Funk.  Sheri Chinen Biesen on film censorship from the 1930s to the 1950s in the OAH’s American Historian.  Drake Law hosts the ABA/Library of Congress traveling exhibit, A 100 Years After The 19th Amendment: Their Legacy Our Future.

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