Weekend Roundup

•  Over at Jotwell, Deborah Dinner has a notice of Nate Holdren's  forthcoming Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge University Press).

• “Katrina Jagodinsky will use a three-year, $460,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how habeas corpus was used in the American West by various marginalized groups to claim freedom and establish their rights between 1812 and 1924.”  More.

• Now available online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: “The Work of Some Irresponsible Women”: Jurors, Ghosts, and Embracery in the Irish Free State," by Mark Coen.  “This article examines a campaign of jury intimidation conducted by female Republicans in the Irish Free State from 1926 to 1934.”

• Ronald K.L. Collins has posted Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Fight for the Free Press: When Benjamin Franklin’s Grandson was Jailed for Critiquing His President (Part I), over at First Amendment Watch.

• Over at the blog of the Historical Society of the New York State Courts is a post summarizing John Oller’s article, forthcoming in Judicial Notice, entitled “George Wickersham: ‘The Scourge of Wall Street.’”  The video of the Society’s webinar, "Lessons Learned from the 1918 Flu Pandemic," is here; its video, "The Evolution of Slavery, Abolition in NY, and the NY Courts: The Lemmon Slave Case," is here.

• ICYMI: Lizabeth Cohen on The Lessons of the Great Depression (The Atlantic)  David Bernstein on administrative constitutionalism (Volokh Conspiracy).  Transcribing manuscripts as a productive escape from pandemic blues (WaPo).

• Sadly but not surprisingly, the Law Books course at Rare Books School, taught by Mike Widener (assisted by Ryan Greenwood) has been cancelled for summer 2020. 

• If you're not already zoomed out: Fridays at 6pm Eastern Time is Drinking with Historians, hosted by Matt Gabriele (Virginia Tech) and Varsha Venkatsubramanian (UC-Berkeley) and with a different guest each week. Registration is here.

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