Weekend Roundup

• Brexit on the mind? You may be interested in a conference on EU legal history at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, June 22-23, 2017. Full info on "Treaties as travaux préparatoires: Conference on the 60th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome" here. 

• There's a new journal around, and it's peer-reviewed. Read more about Buddhism, Law & Society here and here.

• Jenna Weissman Joselit, George Washington University, presents Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments, in the Washington History Seminar on Monday, March 27.

• The Historical Society of the New York Courts presents Constitutional Conventions in New York: Past, Present, and Future, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 6:30 PM, Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

• My Georgetown law colleague Lawrence B. Solum’s statement on originalism during the hearings on the Nomination of the Honorable Neil M. Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is here in writing and here on video.  Hat tip: Legal Theory Blog.  DRE

• If you're still looking to join a panel at the ASLH, don't forget to check out the "in search of" posting over at H-Law.

• The American Historical Association Condemns Second Draft of Executive Travel Ban (March 2017).

• ICYMI: Eric Muller on his SSRN post,  Of Coercion and Accommodation: Looking at Japanese American Imprisonment through a Law Office Window, over at the Faculty Lounge.  Also, Seth Barrett Tillman on why Business Transactions for Value are Not "Emoluments."

• Update: The traveling exhibit Asian Pacific Legal Experience in America will be open for free, self-guided tours at the Minnesota State Law Library April 3-14.  Topics covered include “the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Japanese-American Incarceration during World War II, and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.”

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