Weekend Roundup

• Episode 8 of the podcast Advocates features legal historian Carlton Larson (UC Davis Law). He "describes how the Founding Fathers of America, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Wilson, were as lawyers and advocates. He also dips into the career of Abraham Lincoln as lawyer and advocate."
  

• Over at Notice & Comment, the blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation and ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, Eli Nachmany, a J.D. candidate at the Harvard Law School, has posted Evaluating the History of D.C. Circuit Judges Who Headed Agencies in Light of Judge J. Michelle Childs's D.C. Circuit Nomination.
  

• University of Chicago Federalist Society has created a writing prize for “members of the Federalist Society anywhere in the country so long as they do not have an extensive history of academic publication.”  This year's topic: “Does originalism still work?” (H/t: Will Baude in The Volokh Conspiracy.) 
  

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  New online (and ungated) from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Policing Jim Crow America: Enforcers’ Agency and Structural Transformations, by Anthony Gregory.  It is “a critical historiographical essay animated by the research question of how the decisions of police and sheriffs illuminated and drove the transformation of white supremacy through different forms from emancipation to the end of Jim Crow segregation.”
  

• The Historical Society of the New York Courts is sponsoring From Stonewall to Windsor: New York’s March to LGBTQ Rights, a free in-person (at this writing) and online event at the New York City Bar Association, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST on January 13, 2022.
  

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Rachel Michelle Gunter, "You didn’t always have to be a citizen to vote in America"; Duncan Hosie, "With the Supreme Court lurching right, state courts offer liberals hope."

• Some legal history highlights from recent JOTWELL posts: Cary C. Franklin (UCLA Law) reviews Jonathan Gienapp's "Written Constitutionalism, Past and Present," which appeared in Volume 39 of the Law & History Review (2021); Lael Weinberger (Harvard Law School) reviews Stuart Banner, The Decline of Natural Law: How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped (2021). 
  

•  Update: Here is Katharine Q. Seelye’s NYT obituary for Karen Ferguson, “director of the Nader-backed Pension Rights Center in Washington for more than four decades.”

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