Weekend Roundup

• Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University, will lecture at the U.S. Supreme Court on the history of women and the vote on December 3, 2020, under the auspices of the Supreme Court Historical Society and the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.  Details to follow.

John Jay (NYPL)

• A podcast posted over at the Historical Society of the New York Courts takes up “John Jay’s early years, and how they influenced his role as a Justice and statesman.”

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Marie-Amélie George (Wake Forest University School of Law) on how "the fight against AIDS has shaped how potential covid-19 drugs will reach patients"; Richard R. John (Columbia University) on the Founders' intentions for the U.S. Postal Service (they didn't include having it "be managed like a business"); and more.

• Earlier this year, Touro Law Center hosted an event commemorating the life and work of Charles Reich. Presenters included legal historians Sarah Seo (Iowa Law) and Karen Tani (Berkeley Law). Video recordings of the presentations are now available online. 

• The Federal Judicial Center is "live-tweeting" Luther v. Borden (1849). 

• Have you visited the new website of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit?

• Howard Lesnick, a leader in clinical education and public interest lawyering, has died.

• Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Bradley Hansen have won the week one Stanton Foundation's coronavirus op-ed contest for their Made by History piece in the Washington Post: Making it easier to declare bankruptcy could avert economic catastrophe. Lots of legal history here.

• Apologies for omitting a legal historian from last week's list of inductees into the American Academy of Arts and Science: Tomiko Brown-Nagin. (Harvard Law Today).  

• Newly elected members of the Society of American Historians include Lewis Bateman (a great editor of legal history monographs), Ariela Gross, and Mae Ngai.

• Renisa Mawani has won the Association for Asian American Studies' Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History for her book Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire (Duke University Press). You can listen to the author's comments here.

• So who else is scheming to get their books on the shelves of celebrities or politicians likely to do televised Zoom interviews?  That second copy of Master of the Senate is taking up valuable real estate.

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