Weekend Roundup

• The submission portal for the 2020 annual conference of the American Society for Legal History, which will be held November 11-14 at the Sheraton Grand Chicago, is now open!  The deadline to submit a paper or proposal is Friday, March 13, 2020.  Our post of the call is here.  Other information is here.

• We somehow missed the publication last summer in the Harvard Law Review of Dr. Wu's Constitution, a note on what the author called the “conflicted approach to civil liberties” that John Jingxiong Wu, one of Holmes’s correspondents, took in drafting a constitution for the Republic of China in the 1930s.

• He said, She said: Christopher Tomlins over at HNN on his new book, In the Matter of Nat Turner.

• Sara M. Butler over at Legal History Miscellany, on Hearing and Speaking the Law in Medieval England.

• New online from Law & History Review and Cambridge Core: The Problem of African Girlhood: Raising the Age of Consent in the Cape of Good Hope, 1893–1905, by Elizabeth Thornberry.

• And from the American Journal of Legal History and Oxford University Press: The Historical Evolution of Allegiance During Occupation, by Manuel Galvis Martinez.

• ICYMI: North Dakota State University “students packed into the Memorial Union for Recreating the Constitutional Convention of 1787." 

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