Weekend Roundup

• Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern Center for Legal Studies, has posted an appreciation of Kimberley S. Johnson's "Racial Orders, Congress, and the Agricultural Welfare State, 1865-1940," 25 Studies in American Political Development 143 (October 2011) on Jotwell.

• “From the Streets to the Courts: Doing Grassroots Legal History of the Civil Rights Era,” Ariela Gross’s review for the Texas Law Review of Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s Courage to Dissent is here.
  

• The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will hold a book launch for Deidre Molony’s National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy Since 1882, on Thursday, May 10, 2012, from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. at Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor, Moynihan Board Room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,  Washington, D.C. 20004.  A reception will follow.  To RSVP acceptance, send an email to Maria-Stella Gatzoulis at maria-stella.gatzoulis@wilsoncenter.org

• Two postings on the Library of Law and Liberty are of possible interest to LHB readers.  One is Colleen Sheehan's Sound the Alarm to the People: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and the Principles of 1798. The other is John Witte Jr.’s From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition.

• Just in case anyone out there is harboring pretensions of learnedness that require deflating, you might want to check out the post by Marc Herman, Conference Review: Legal Heterodoxy in Islamic and Jewish History: Late Antique and Medieval Transformations, University of California, Berkeley, April 23-24, and an accompanying comment.

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