Saturday, April 23, 2022

Weekend Roundup

  • Congratulations to Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire, for winning the Gary Lindberg Award in UNH’s College of Liberal Arts, awarded annually to an outstanding teacher-scholar.   More.
  • The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory hosts Duncan Kennedy, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, Emeritus, on “Law Distributes I: Ricardo Marx CLS,” on Apr 27, 2022, 18:00 - 21:00.   More.
  • Sonia Hernández and Stephanie Hinnershitz have been named the 2022 recipients of the Philip Taft Labor History Award. Hernández received it for For a Just and Better World:  Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938.  Hinnershitz received it for Japanese American Incarceration:  The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II.  More.
  • Sarah Seo reviews Anne Gray Fischer's The Streets Belong to Us in The Atlantic.
  • Mark Tushnet briefly blogs on The Hughes Court on the Cambridge University Press blog.
  • Nadav Orian Peer, University of Colorado Law School, has posted Money Creation and Bank Clearing, which is forthcoming in the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law.
  • ICYMI:  Marcia Coyle on Justice Kagan’s reluctant duel with Justice Gorsuch on “law-chambers history” of habeas corpus in Brown v. Davenport (Law.com).

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