Weekend Roundup

• It is rare for a seven-year-old law review article to prompt much debate, but with the Indian Child Welfare Act before the Supreme Court this term (in Brackeen v. Haaland), Greg Ablavsky's "Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause" (published in the Yale Law Journal in 2015) is newly relevant. In a recently posted SSRN piece (also available on the Stanford Law School website), Ablavsky details how and why his article came to be "cite-checked" by another scholar earlier this year and what the stakes are of getting this history right. 

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Ansley L. Quiros (University of North Alabama), "A vital civil rights activist you never heard of has died" (on Charles Sherrod); Emily Frazier (Missouri State University), "Geopolitics, not humanitarianism, has long guided U.S. refugee policy"; Evan Turiano (Queens College, CUNY), "Justice Jackson offered Democrats a road map for securing equal rights."
  

•  ICYMI: Eight Landmark Supreme Court Cases That Were Overturned (History Channel).  Enslaved family history records brought to public light by Mississippi project (Clarion, MS, Ledger).
  

• Update: The big reveal on Chaucer and Chaumpaigne’s case (NYT).  Molly Brady on evidence of state constitutional conventions (SLog).
  

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