Weekend Roundup

• William & Mary Law School has a nice profile of Thomas J. McSweeney on the publication of his book, Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals.  An earlier interview is here.

• Over at the Talking Legal History, Siobhan M. M. Barco talks with Gregory P. Downs, University of California, Davis, about his book The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). 

• The American Political Development blog A House Divided is running a symposium on Corey Robin's The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. Here's a recent post by Melissa Murray (New York University School of Law) on the importance of surfacing Thomas's historical views of the black matriarch, alongside his views of the black patriarch, and how "Thomas’s view of race, patriarchy, and conservatism converge in his understanding of reproductive rights."

• From HNN: Jennifer Wells, George Washington University, on her path to a professional career in history (after law school) and “some tips for current students considering graduate work in history and law.”

• Last Thursday, Touro Law sponsored a symposium on the life and legacy of Charles A. Reich. [KMT: I tweeted some threads about the presentations, available here.]

• Brenda Wineapple will speak on her book The Impeachers: The Trial of Andre Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation at the Franklin Roosevelt Library and Museum at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 12, 2020.  Also, on February 15, the Library presents “Presidential Leadership: Lincoln & Roosevelt" with Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds.  More.

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" Section: Robert L. Tsai (American University) on "How activists resisted — and ultimately overturned — an unjust Supreme Court decision"; William M. Treanor (Georgetown University Law Center) on how "Trump’s attorneys have butchered a crucial Founder’s take on impeachment"; Shobana Shankar (Stony Brook University) on why Mississippi can't fix its prisons, without recognizing "their dehumanizing, eugenic roots"; Christine Johnson (Washington University in Saint Louis) on why "Trump’s impeachment trial is no witch hunt"; and more.

• ICYMI: Supreme Court archives catalogue the history of Queens.  Ian Burney on the history of innocence at Stony Brook.  Berkeley Law removes Boalt's name (LA Times).

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