Weekend Roundup

• Ohio University seeks an instructor of Law, Justice, and Culture. The deadline for applications is May 6.

• Congratulations to legal historians recently named John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow for 2019-20.  These include ASLH President-Elect Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University, for "Legalities of Small Wars in European Empires, 1400-1900"; Lena Salaymeh, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University for "Revolutionary Islamic Law"; and Brad Snyder, Georgetown Law, for "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, Judicial Restraint, and the Creation of the Liberal Establishment." The complete list of recipients is here.

• Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins) has been elected to the Society of American Historians. Congratulations! 

• Samuel Moyn has been designated the Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at the Yale Law School.  Congratulations, as well!

• California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, an exhibit curated by Tyree Boyd-Pates and Taylor Bythewood-Porter, is at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles through April 28.

• I'm grateful to Virginia Law's Aditya Bamzai for posting his amicus brief in PDR Network et al. v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc., early in the same week in which I got to the Office of Price Administration in my legal history course, even though its discussion of Yakus is not the only treatment at hand of how the US squared the need for speedy wartime price control with the dictates of Article III. [DRE]

• From Tocqueville 21, William Novak (University of Michigan Law School) on "Honneth, Dewey, and the Depths of Democracy." And from AHA Perspectives, Katherine Benton-Cohen (Georgetown University) on How Experts and Their Facts Created Immigration Restriction.

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