Saturday, August 5, 2023

Weekend Roundup

  • Long ago, we wrote a seminar paper on the coroner in England and New Hampshire, so our pulse quickened when we learned that the Australasian Legal Information Institute has brought online the Australian Coronial Law Library “The free access Library on AustLII provides an expansive perspective on the coronial function over at least the past twenty years.”  More.  DRE.
  • Last month, the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit held a reenactment of the argument in United States v. Microsoft Corp., 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001), “the first federal major appellate court opinion to address application of traditional ‘old economy’ antitrust rules to the new, dynamic and fast-paced technology markets of the late 20th Century.”  Two of the judges who presided at the original argument also presided over the reenactment.  A recording of the event is now available.
  • Berkeley Law's announces its new faculty members, including the legal historian José Argueta Funes.
  • The Lawbook Exchange’s new catalogue of Scholarly Law & Legal History is here.
  •  ICYMI: Henrietta Lacks’s family reaches settlement in extracted cell lawsuit (WaPo).  Behind the scenes at the American Historical Review (AHA).  The Brennan Center for Justice on the history of Supreme Court appointments.  The New York Times reviews the exhibit "Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts," which opened earlier this summer at the FDR Library and Museum.    Joseph Patrick Kelly on Ku Klux Klan Acts (The Conversation).

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