Weekend Roundup

• In the New Rambler: Jonas Bens (Freie Universität Berlin) reviews Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People (Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Bain Attwood (Monash University). 
  

• "The Queen has approved that Professor Helen Scott, Professor of Private Law at the University of Oxford, be appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge, in succession to Professor David Ibbetson."  More.
  

• Lea VanderVelde, professor of law and the Josephine R. Witte Chair, has been named the 2022 Research Scholar of the Year at the University of Iowa.
  

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  The ABA’s Modern Law Library podcast is devoted to No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr., by Edward J. Littlejohn and Peter J. Hammer.  Crockett was a fascinating figure, and Professor Emeritus Littlejohn founded the Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History at the Wayne State University Law School.  More.
  

• Laura Edwards, Princeton University, presents her book, Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States, to the Washington History Seminar on April 4, 2022, at 4 PM ET.  Megan Sweeney, University of Michigan, and Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University, comment.  Register here.
  

• Now available online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Garland's Million; or, the Tragedy and Triumph of Legal History, John Fabian Witt’s plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History in New Orleans in November 2021.
  

• From the Journal of the American Revolution: Haimo Li, "A Bolingbrokean Argument Hidden in Hamilton’s Federalist 71."
  

• Gale Primary Sources has added some new collections, including Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882–1986, and The Making of the Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Part II, 1891–1950.  More.

•  From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Dan Bouk (Colgate University), "The 1950 census, a treasure trove of data, was the last of its kind"; Helen J. Knowles (State University of New York at Oswego), "A key Supreme Court ruling protecting workers is now in jeopardy"; Julio Capó, Jr. (Florida International University) and Shevrin Jones (Florida State Senator), "It’s nothing new for Florida to claim anti-LGBTQ measures will protect children"; and more.
  

• Joanna Grisinger at the DC history conference on the Palisades neighborhood’s opposition to jet airplanes at National Airport (WaPo).
  

• The April 2022 newsletter of the Historical Society of the DC Circuit is now available. 
  

• 27 Constitutional Amendments in 27 Minutes from the National Constitution Center.  
  

• Update: "Constance Baker Motley, Civil Rights Queen, Paved the Way for Ketanji Brown Jackson," by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Oprah Daily).

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