Weekend Roundup

• Congratulations to Professors John Hudson and Lorna Hutson, co-directors of University of St Andrews’s Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature, upon their election to the British Academy.  More.

• And congratulations to Michelle McKinley upon being named director of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.  The press release notes that the Cambridge University Press will publish Professor McKinley's book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700, in September. 

• The Library of Congress has placed on-line 6,000 items from the Martin Van Buren Papers and released a new on-line version of the Federal Register for the years 1936-1993, together with a Beginner's Guide.  More: Library of Congress Blog.

• Out this month from Prometheus Books: Trials Of The Century: A Decade-By-Decade Look at Ten of America's Most Sensational Crimes, by the father-daughter team, Mark J. Phillips and Aryn Z. Phillips.  Before clicking, try guessing the authors' choice for each decade.

• Paul Burgess, a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, has published Should Entick v Carrington be on our Rule of Law Radar? an essay inspired by Entick v. Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law (Hart, 2015), on Jus Politicum.

• ICYMI: New York Times reporter Rachel Swarms follows up on her story about the 1838 sale of some 272 slaves by the Jesuit priests who ran what became Georgetown University by following the current president John J. DeGioia’s encounters with their descendants.  The Senate approved Carla Hayden as the new Librarian of Congress.  Ronald Collins interviews Michael J. Graetz and Linda A. Greenhouse about The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (Simon & Schuster, 2016) on SCOTUSblog.  Seth Barrett Tillman on the impeachment of Associate Justice Samuel Chase, and Roland Nikles, a San Francisco attorney, on Worcestor v. Georgia.

• Save the dates: Although this is still a year away, you may want to note that the Commission on Legal Pluralism will have its next biennial conference in Syracuse, NY on Aug.9-11, 2017. It will host a course on legal pluralism right before the meeting--on Aug.4-7, 2017.

• Via H-Law: "Additional Essays Needed for Edited Collection on 18th-Century Literature & Law." 

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