Weekend Roundup

• The Federal Judicial Center has a new documentary history in its series of Famous Federal Trials: U.S. v. Albert B. Fall: The Teapot Dome Scandal, by Jake Kobrick.

• New online from American Journal of Legal History and Oxford Academic: Combatting Bias in the Criminal Courts of France: 1870s–1913, by James Donovan. 

• Here is an excellent webpage on digital archival research by the Mina Rees Library off the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.   

• “The University of New Brunswick has removed George Duncan Ludlow's name from its law faculty building in Fredericton after concerns were raised last year over his involvement in residential schools and his legal endorsement of slavery.” (CBC).

• Ryan Shymansky, a 2019 Georgetown Law graduate, has published the note The Great Bulwark of ...Political Liberties”: The Decline of Jury Power and the Rise of Slave Interests in the Early American Republic in the Georgetown Law Journal.  It originated as a paper for my Georgetown law colleague John Mikhail. DRE

•  ICYMI: Lizabeth Cohen reviews Robert Dallek's presidential history, How Did We Get Here?  (WaPo).  Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley, Michigan Law, on the fopunders and the nondelegation doctrine (The Atlantic).  Ken Bridges on Heman Sweatt and the integration of University of Texas Law School (Waco Today).

• Update: Stephen Vladeck on the federal government's authority to use troops in Minneapolis: the thread and the historical article.

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