Weekend Roundup

• "Although the U.S. Congressional Record has been in a digital format for some time, a version that can easily be searched is now available on an online platform—offered by the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School"  (ABA Journal).  For all of BYU Law's legal corpora: this.
  

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  An interview with Julie Stone Peters, Columbia University, about her book Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe (Columbia News).
  

• On Monday, July 11, 2022, Reva Siegel, Yale Law School, delivered the eighteenth annual Robert H. Jackson Lecturer on the Supreme Court of the United States at the Chautauqua Institution.  A video of her lecture, on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is here.  The lecture drew upon her article, Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism As Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism—and Some Pathways for Resistance,” which is forthcoming in the Texas Law Review. 
  

• Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, entitled, “The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future,” on October 19, 2022, “at President Lincoln’s Cottage historic site and museum in Washington, D.C., at 6:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public and will stream online [here.] In his remarks, Delbanco will address reparations for slavery in the United States, using history, philosophy, and literature to examine a wide range of perspectives on the debate.”
  

• Ananda V. Burra, a Michigan Law JD and PhD who served as the McCurdy Legal History Fellow at the University of Virginia in 2016-2017, is now an Associate Professor at BML Munjal University in Delhi.
  

• “The New Haven Museum will commemorate Connecticut Freedom Trail Month with a virtual presentation, ‘Uncovering Their History: African, African American, and Native American Burials in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground, 1640-1815,’ by historian, educator, author, and recently named publisher of Connecticut Explored magazine, Dr. Katherine A. Hermes, on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at 6 p.m. Register here" (Patch).
  

• Two Trinity College students spent ten weeks this summer researching “the stories of inmates at the country’s first state prison and to investigate the roots of mass incarceration” for their project, ‘Humanizing History at Old New-Gate Prison’” (More).
  

• A notice of Dame Priscilla Olabori Kuye, “the first and only woman to become the President of the Nigerian Bar Association” (The Nigerian Lawyers).
  

• John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School, has published the essay American Contagions: Unexpected Pasts, Unwieldy Presents, and Contested Futures, in the University of St. Thomas Law Review 18 (2022): 510-524.

•  From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Molly Michelmore (Washington & Lee), "Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act exposes our allergy to taxes"; Shannon Withycombe (University of New Mexico), "Dobbs may exacerbate our racially disparate infant mortality rates"; Hidetaka Hirota (UC Berkeley), "The disturbing precedent for busing migrants to other states"; JoAnne Sweeny (University of Louisville), "Ireland changed its antiabortion laws. Can it offer a blueprint for the U.S.?"; William E. Nelson (New York University School of Law), "What Justice Kavanaugh gets wrong about the Supreme Court and politics"; Jeremy A. Greene (Johns Hopkins University), "The Inflation Reduction Act reflects the changing politics of RX drugs."

• ICYMI: From Poison Control Statutes to Pope Pius IX: The History of Anti-Abortion Law, by Elisabeth Griffith (Literary Hub).  Seth Barrett Tillman, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology, questions a reference to the British Conservative politician John Enoch Powell (SSRN).  DRE.  David Adler on John Marshall Harlan's imperishable Plessey dissent (NLJ).
  

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