Weekend Roundup

• Congratulations to Linda Przybyszewski, Notre Dame University, for winning the 2017 Hughes-Gossett Award of the Supreme Court Historical Society for best article in the Journal of Supreme Court History, for her article Scarlet Fever, Stanley Matthews, and the Cincinnati Bible War! 

• "The Arizona Board of Regents named Robert A. Williams, Jr. Regents’ Professor, the highest faculty honor awarded at Arizona’s public universities.”  He is the author of many works on American Indians and the law, including The American Indian in Western Legal Thought:  The Discourses of Conquest (1990).  More.

• The final schedule for the Policy History Conference is here.

• Over at Balkinization, John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reflects on history and the Haspel nomination.

• ICYMI: The law of spreading false news in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

• Some Updates.  (We’ve been traveling and have a few more than is our norm.) Last Tuesday, at an event sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked Richard Primus and Randy Barnett how each would have decided Loving v. Virginia?  Their answers on SCOTUSblog.

• More ICYMI.  Nicola Peart, University of Otago, on Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand’s first female barrister and solicitor. Mary Beth Norton on "witch hunts" in AHA Perspectives.  Exhibiting 95 years of  Mauritius’s constitutional history.  A report of Jill Norgren on Stories From Trailblazing Women Lawyers at the Wilson Center.

• Also, Program Committee Chair Claire Potter and Co-Chair Brian Ogilvie preview the annual meeting in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019.  It will include an ASLH-sponsored panel or two showcasing doctoral candidates and recent hires in legal history.

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