Weekend Roundup

• My fellow LHBlogger Karen Tani discusses her recent foreword to the Harvard Law Review's issue on the Supreme Court on David Schleicher and Samuel Moyn's Digging a Hole podcast.  DRE
  

• The latest in the "In Black America" series is a tribute to the late John Hope Franklin (KUT 90.5).
  

• The Loudoun County, Virginia courthouse has been renamed to honor Charles Hamilton Houston and been designated as a national historical landmark (WaPo).
  

• Orin Kerr on English common-law on emergency entry into a home and the Fourth Amendment (Volokh Conspiracy). 
  

• The Newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit for January 2025 is here.
  

• Michelle Adams, will discuss her book, The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, at the Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 16 from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EST (ACS).
  

• President Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to the son of Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi in honor of his mother, the litigant in Ex parte Endo (Pacific Citizen). H/t Eric Muller.
  

• "The John Carter Brown Library invites applications for a 2 year postdoctoral position helping to coordinate the library’s programs and events to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States."  More.
  

• A review, in Swedish, of Allen D. Boyer and Mark Nicholls's The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History" by Boris Benulic in The Epoch Times.  English translation after the jump.

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

Michigan Legal History Workshop

[Our friends at Michigan Law have sent us the lineup in its Legal History Workshop in the upcoming semester.  DRE]

February 5.  Session 3. Naomi Lamoreaux & Rebecca Eisenberg, University of Michigan Law School

What Administrative Agencies Can Do that Courts Cannot: Lessons from the Patent Office’s Handling of Interferences, 1836-1940

February 12.  Session 4. Heather Menefee, Northwestern University, Department of History

From “Loyal” to “Legitimate”: Racial Definitions of Political Identity during Dakota Tribal Reorganization, 1886-1999

February 19.  Session 5. Sanne Ravensbergen, University of Michigan, Department of History

The Hybrid Uniform of the Jaksa: Prosecutors in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Indonesia

February 26. Session 6. Aaron Hall, University of Minnesota, Department of History

The First Constitutional Lesson: Learning to Follow the Founding in Antebellum America

March 12.  Session 7. Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University, Department of History

“John Doe Chinaman:” Law and Race in the American West

March 19.  Session 8. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California, Department of History

Maritime Prize Law and the Making and Unmaking of Empires, ca. 1689-1916

March 26.  Session 9. Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington, Department of Political Science

The Price of Civil Rights: Philanthropy and Legal Mobilization

April 2. Session 10. Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia, Department of History

Finances of the Freedmen: The Expansion and Plunder of the Freedman’s Bank, 1866-1867

April 9.  Session 11. Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez, University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of History

"In Consideration of Humanity:" Policing Mexican Child Refugees in the Early Twentieth Century United States

April 16.  Session 12. Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt University, Law School

“Drug Money” in Legal, Political, and Cultural History

CFP: 5th Asian Legal History Conference

We have the following call for papers, for the 5th Asian Legal History Conference:

Doshisha University, with the support of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law’s Transnational Legal History Group at CUHK LAW and the Asian Legal History Association, is organizing the Fifth Asian Legal History Conference at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan on 31 July and 1 August 2025. Previous Asian Legal History Conferences have been hosted, organized and supported by the University of Law at Hue University, the Faculty of Law at Thammasat University, the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore and the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The conference aims to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers and graduate students to share their research findings on topics relating to legal history in Asia. The conference is open to both scholars anywhere in the world working on Asian legal history, broadly understood, and scholars based in Asia working on any legal history-related subjects.

Click here for the call for papers. The deadline for paper and panel proposals is 15 March 2025.

-- Karen Tani