Weekend Roundup

• Birthright citizenship is much in the news of late. Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins) responds here (New York Times) and here (Washington Post).

• Also in the Washington Post (Made by History section): Gail Savage (St. Mary's College) on "why the Founders feared foreign influence in American politics"; Sarah Silverstein (University of Connecticut) on "the price of America’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council"; and more.

• The Association for Asian Studies' third "Emerging Fields in the Study of Asia" workshop for early career scholars will be on "Law, Society and Justice" in May 2019. Full details here. Apply here by Oct.1, 2018.

• The latest issue of the Journal of Legal Education contains two reviews of Stephen Presser's Law Professors: Three Centuries of Shaping American Law, one by Bernard W. Bell and another by Scott Douglas Gerber.

• Presumably legal history will figure in the panel “Background Principle of Common Law and and Constitutional Property” that is part of this year's annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William & Mary Law School on October 4-5.  This year’s Brigham-Kanner Prize recipient is Stewart E. Sterk.  The conference in his honor is entitled “The Federalism Dimension of Constitutional Property.”

• ICYMI: The Republicans' "Alger Hiss Problem" in Politico.

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