Weekend Roundup

• A new issue (2:1) of The Docket–the online sidekick of Law and History Review–has gone live.  Check it out! 

• The American Council of Learned Societies has announced its fellows for 2019, among them Laura Edwards (for “Only the Clothes on Her Back: Textiles, Law, and Commerce in the Nineteenth-Century United States”); Amanda H. Frost (for “Unmaking Americans: A History of Citizenship Stripping in the United States”); Katherine Unterman (for "The Colonial Constitution: Law and Empire in the US Territories”); and Kimberly Welch (for “Lending and Borrowing Across the Color Line in the Antebellum American South”).

• YLS's John Fabian Witt's lecture, To Save the Country? National Emergencies from Lincoln to Trump, delivered at Columbia University’s Center for American Studies on March 28, is now up on YouTube.

• "Voices of the Movement" is a series of podcast interviews of "veterans of the civil rights movement" conducted by the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart. Available now is episode 1: "The day Martin Luther King Jr. died."

• If you’re in the mood for a review essay with a point-of-view, try, while it’s still open access, Nan Enstad's The “Sonorous Summons” of the New History of Capitalism, Or, What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Economy? from Modern American History 2:1.  H/t: JLG 

• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the International Labour Organization will present the symposium Together, We Win: FDR, Frances Perkins and the ILO at the Library’s Henry Wallace Center on Monday, April 15, 2019.

• Here’s some timely and unfortunately apt comparative constitutionalism: Lénárd Sándor, Chief Counsel to the Constitutional Court of Hungary and, currently, a visiting foreign fellow at the Federal Judicial Center, in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen.

• And, in other news from the FJC, check out the most recent addition to the Center's unit to our Famous Federal Trials series, U.S. v. Guiteau, written by Winston Bowman.

• ICYMI: In WaPo, Petula Dvorak’s appreciation of an exhibit on consumer advocacy at the National Museum of American History.   A Look at Dover [NH]’s Legal History, Courts, and Jurists. Sean Wilentz on "why a merciful God invented second editions."

• Postdoc opportunity at McGill's Indian Ocean World Centre: details here. The deadline is May 15, 2019.

• Also for early career scholars: Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies has a Call out for a "Law in Context" Early Career Workshop. Those applications are due July 10, 2019.

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