Weekend Roundup

• Over at Notice and Comment, Jed Shugerman, Fordham Law, has a very substantial post, A Reply to the Unitary Executive Theorists on the Misuse of Historical Materials. 
  

• In the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Orville Burton (Clemson University/University of Illinois) and Armand Derfner (Charleston School of Law), "Biden’s pick won’t shift the Supreme Court, but here’s what might"; Tracy L. Barnett (University of Georgia), "The Sandy Hook settlement could transform the centuries-old marketing of guns"; Quinn Anex-Ries (University of Southern California), "A new push to censor Internet pornography could harm marginalized groups."

• Registration for the British Legal History Conference 2022 is now open.
  

• “The British Library’s Burmese collection holds some of the earliest extant dhammasattha manuscripts in the world. The dhammasattha, or “treatise on the law” is a genre of Buddhist literature prevalent in mainland Southeast Asia, written in Pali and in a range of vernacular languages including Burmese, Arakanese, Mon, Shan, Thai, Lao and Khmer.”  More.
  

• Two "SCOTUS Scoops": Clare Cushman on John Francis Nicholas Wilkinson: Remarkable Law Librarian (SCHS), and Todd C. Peppers on Justice Hugo L. Black, His Chambers Staff, and the Ku Klux Klan Controversy of 1937 (SCHS).
  

• ICYMI: The University of Mississippi opposes a CRT ban (Mississippi Free Press). Deschutes County [Oregon] Circuit Court honors Black History Month (ktvz.com).
  

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  Update: "This is a book about textiles and the people who owned them. It is also a book about rights and the people who lacked them. Sound intriguing? It is."  Laura F. Edwards’s Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States is reviewed in WaPo.
  

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