Weekend Roundup

•  A "Curator Talk" at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, Japanese American Incarceration Through the Lens of Ansel Adams, is now on YouTube.
  

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  Brent Tarter discusses his book Constitutional History of Virginia (University of Georgia Press, 2023) at the Library of Virginia in Richmond on September 20 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Virginia Living).

• Steven A. Steinbach, once a litigation partner Williams & Connolly LLP and latterly a teacher of United States History and American Government courses at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, on how United States history can also be taught and understood by focusing on constitutional history (YouTube).
  

• That SSRN/Penn Law Review article by William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen on DJT's disqualification under the 14th Amendment is getting some traction in the popular media (Time, NYT, The Conversation).  Steven Calabresi (Volokh Conspiracy) and Gerard N. Magliocca (Washington Monthly) pile on.
  

• The American Historical Association is hosting an hour-long, online discussion, open to the public, History Behind the Headlines: African American History and State Standards in Florida and Beyond, on Friday, August 25, at 1 p.m. ET.  The moderator is Leslie Harris (Northwestern Univ.) And the panelists are Edward Ayers (Univ. of Richmond), Daina Ramey Berry (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), Marvin Dunn (Florida International Univ.)  Register here.  (A recoding will be posted to the AHA’s YouTube channel after the event. 
  

• On Thursday, September 14, 2023 4pm to 6pm, Kenneth Feinberg interviews Justice Stephen Breyer about his work for Senator Edward Kennedy and the Senate Judiciary Committee at George Washington University.  More.
  

• Stephen Bruce has posted a new version (with "more history") of his article on the compulsory arbitration decision, Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (U.S. 2018).
  

• Justin Driver’s Robert H. Jackson Lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, on the constitutionality of racial diversity-seeking affirmative action in college admissions, is here.
  

• ICYMI: Rice University mourns Harold Hyman (Rice).  

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