Weekend Roundup

• Nate Holdren, Drake University, discusses Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (2020) over at New Books Network. The book also just picked up another award: the Philip Taft Labor History Award, offered by the ILR School at Cornell University, in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). You can read the citation here.
  

• The American Bar Foundation has announced its 2021-22 Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellows. We were excited to see a few historians on the list, including Hardeep Dhillon and Alex Reiss-Sorokin. You can read more about them and their research here.
  

• Here's a web portal on Legal History at the  University of Michigan. 

• The Call for the Asian Law and Society Association's conference is up. The conference will be virtual on 17-18 Sept.2021 with the theme: Law, Crisis and Revival in Asia. Proposals are due July 15. 

• On Jotwell: Jedidiah Kroncke (U. of Hong Kong) on Ntina Tzouvala's Capitalism as Civilisation (2020) here.

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Ashton Merck (North Carolina State University) and Victoria Plutshack (Duke University), "Biden’s infrastructure success depends on implementation, not just ideas"; Sarah R. Coleman (Texas State University) on the Biden administration's decision to "allow undocumented students to access pandemic relief"; and more.

• Over at UVic in British Columbia: Pooja Parmar and John McLaren (both of the U. of Victoria) gave a Dean's Lecture series, "Racism, Rights, and Empire in the Dominion of Canada: The Case of the Komegata Maru." Video here.

• The following events at the annual Roosevelt Reading Festival of the FDR Presidential Library  are of potential interest to legal historians: Eric Rauchway, Why the New Deal Matters (6/15, 4pm); John A. Riggs, High Tension: FDR's Battle to Power America (6/15, 6pm); David Levering Lewis, The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order (6/16, 4pm).  More.
  

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