Weekend Roundup

• Recently posted in the Washington Post’s “Made By History” series is Victoria Saker Woeste’s The anti-Semitic origins of the war on "fake news."  It recounts “How Henry Ford tried to discredit the media in order to spread anti-Jewish propaganda.”  

• A scholars' brief on "the History and Original Meaning of the Fourth Amendment as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner in Carpenter v. United States" is now up on SSRN.

• The Faculty Lounge has an announcement of a new project at Southern Methodist University, Women’s Rights in America: From Early Stirrings to Third Wave Feminism.

• Congratulations to Sarah Staszak, whose No Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Retrenchment (Oxford University Press, 2015) has recently won the J. David Greenstone Book Award from the American Political Science Association for best book published in the past two years in politics and history. 

• Of possible interest to legal historians of Asia: two back-to-back conferences on comparative law in Asia at the National University of Singapore, Sept.27-28, 2018. The deadline for registration is Sept.12. Details here.

• A follow-up to our recent post on teaching non-US and global legal history through film: Bram Fischer (2017) is about lawyers and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. Trailer here (H/t: Rohit De). 

• The Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) is co-hosting an art exhibit on the Bill of Rights at Cooper Union in New York City during Constitution Week (September 18-23). The exhibit is free and open to the public.

• Congratulations to Steven Brown, Auburn University, for wining the Hughes-Gossett Senior Prize for the best article in the Journal of Supreme Court History.  More. 

• Jeremi Suri, the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, delivers The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office, the 2017 William Roger Louis lecture, before the National History Center and the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program on Monday, September 11, 2017, 4:00pm-5:30pm, in the Wilson Center’s 6th Floor Moynihan Boardroom.

• A reminder that the Law Library of Congress will commemorate Constitution Day with a talk by Michael J. Klarman, Harvard Law School, on The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2016), on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Room LJ-119, located on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, DC.

• Until just recently we missed quite a symposium on Native American Law in the Modern Era in the Albany Government Law Review 10:1.  Contributions include  Indian Title: Unraveling the Racial Context of Property Rights, or How to Stop Engaging in Conquest, by Joseph William Singer; Indians, Race, and Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country, by Alex Tallchief Skibine; Anishinaabe law and "The Round House,” by Matthew L.M. Fletcher; The Doctrine of Christian Discovery: Its Fundamental Importance in United States Indian Law and the Need for its Repudiation and Removal, by Joseph J. Heath, Esq.; and The Anglocentric Supremacy of the Marshall Court, by Neyooxet Greymorning.

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