Weekend Roundup

• Over at Administrative Law Blog, Cynthia Farid, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has posted Administrative Law in Postcolonial South Asia – Some thoughts on Legal History. 

• The American Historical Association has placed our own Mitra Sharafi in its “member spotlight.”

• Congratulations to Matthew Dyson, Oxford University, upon his election as President of the of the European Society for Comparative Legal History.

• Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University, discusses Birthright Citizenship on the New Books Network Podcast. She also draws on her work in an op-ed in the Washington Post, on "How to Resist Bad Supreme Court Rulings."

• Adam Winkler, UCLA Law, discussed his We the Corporations on the Knowledge@Wharton show, podcasted here.

• ICYMI: Racially restrictive covenants in Greenville, SC.  In The Guardian, Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College, argues that “New Deal-era programs are as popular now as they were in the 1950s, and voters have come to recognize that Republican policies have hurt them.”  David Greenberg, Rutgers University, in Politico, on the politics of Supreme Court nominations since LBJ, qv also this.

• Update: the Newberry has announced its long- and short-term fellows for 2018-19, including former Hurst Institute fellow, Doug Kiel, Northwestern University.

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